![]() ![]() ![]() Cassandra recognizes how transgenerational physical and emotional trauma is actually embedded in our DNA and how it has shaped her own life and the lives of her family. It’s a lyrical, personal memoir centered around the racist murder of her great grandfather, Burt, whom she never knew. I recently read Cassandra’s amazing book, We Are Bridgesand I was absolutely blown away. She’s an author, a mother, a current editor of LA Parent Magazine, and so much more. Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Cassandra Lane. Transcript of “Race, Trauma, and Hope – A Mother’s Healing Journey (with Cassandra Lane)” It was by acknowledging and, ultimately, empathizing with the past that she became vulnerable enough to risk accepting love and eventually motherhood. ![]() “Not knowing one’s story is like being buried alive,” she says. Her artful storytelling, both memoir and historical imagining, reminds us that we are all inextricably linked to our ancestors, both genetically and experientially. She joins Janet to discuss her new book We Are Bridges in which her personal journey from a childhood of poverty and racism to motherhood is juxtaposed against the traumas and upheavals of her ancestors. Cassandra Lane is an author, Editor-in-Chief of LA Parent Magazine, and a mother (something she vowed she would never be). ![]()
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