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Living in Minneapolis: Holding Resilience and Collective Loss at the Same Time

Living in Minneapolis right now means holding both resilience and a collective loss of safety at the same time. There’s a real loss happening too — the loss of what used to feel predictable. The loss of feeling safe in free speech. The loss of feeling safe going to the grocery store. Driving. Or walking in your own neighborhood. As a trauma therapist, I see how historical and intergenerational trauma shape nervous systems — not just individually, but collectively. When communities experience repeated fear and public harm, the body remembers, even when the mind tries to move on. In the antisemitism and trauma trainings I teach, I use historical images to show how dehumanization begins. Lately, the images coming out of Minneapolis feel disturbingly familiar — not identical, but emotionally parallel. I’m not comparing events. I’m naming a nervous system response: I’ve seen this before. Trauma isn’t only what happens. It’s also what we witness. We don’t have to know each other to care about each other. And right now, caring matters.