Therapist explains the collective trauma Minnesotans have endured during the federal surge
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For more than two months, many people — especially in immigrant communities — have found themselves looking over their shoulders, hyper vigilant to potential danger. On Thursday, the Trump administration’s announcement that they would be ending the immigration crackdown in Minnesota unearthed emotions from relief to anger.
Author and licensed therapist Corey Yeager said it’s not just a response to trauma from the past 75 days, but that it has been stewing since the killing of Jamar Clark in 2015.
“This collective trauma doesn't live in one individual. It lives in the nervous system of our community,” Yeager said. “That chronic exposure to that distress, which is what we've seen over years and years, but really acutely over the last 75 days plus.”
Yeager added that when a community experiences trauma, they need treatment, not just healing.
“But no one outside of our community can heal our community. Only us within our community can do it. So we need our leaders to be with us,” he said.
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