What stories do our bodies carry?

Healing wounds of displacement through somatics work with Nisrine Maktabi

What stories do our bodies carry? Healing wounds of displacement through somatics work with Nisrine Maktabi

30 Apr · Third Culture Therapy

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Nisrine Maktabi is a Lebanese Canadian psychotherapist, trauma-informed coach, and founder of Rooted and Resilient, a program supporting multicultural individuals in reclaiming belonging and inner peace.

In this intimate conversation, Nisrine joins Third Culture Therapy podcast to explore the invisible threads of intergenerational trauma, the grief we inherit, and the embodied paths to healing. We speak candidly about tracing ancestry, reclaiming joy through storytelling, and how somatic therapy helps multicultural communities move from survival to connection.

💬 Topics Covered:

✔️Tracing ancestry and grief after loss

✔️How unacknowledged grief shows up in high-functioning adults

✔️The sacredness of ancestral storytelling and cultural grief

✔️What healing looks like in a trauma-informed lens

✔️Somatic tools: breath, movement, self-touch, and sensory grounding

✔️ Understanding Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work

✔️From blame to compassion in parent-child dynamics

✔️The power of community healing and group therapy

Learn more about Nisrine here