Praise for The Cost of Healing in Silence "In The Cost of Healing in Silence , Ashley McGirt-Adair delivers a courageous and transformative call to break cycles of pain and isolation. With truth, tenderness, and conviction, she shows that our healing, both individual and collective, begins when we dare to speak, to feel, and to reclaim our wholeness." --Uché Blackstock, MD, Founder and CEO, Advancing Health Equity; New York Times best-selling author of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine " The Cost of Healing in Silence is a powerful guide for anyone navigating racial trauma or working to build systems worthy of our communities. Drawing from deep clinical expertise and lived truth, Ashley McGirt-Adair offers a rare blend of wisdom, vulnerability, and practical tools that make this book as healing as it is essential." --Marcus Harrison Green , journalist and author of Readying to Rise "Ashley McGirt-Adair offers a powerful and much-needed contribution to our understanding of racial trauma. As a leading expert in this work, she brings clarity to the historical and generational battles our community faces, blending scholarship and lived experience in a way psychology has often missed. Her storytelling is rich and deeply human, giving readers both language and healing. This is a timeless work that will empower generations.
" --Dr. Patrice N. Douglas , Licensed Psychologist and LMFT; Founder and CEO of The Weight Room "In this powerful and deeply necessary book, Ashley McGirt-Adair writes with the clarity of a scholar, the heart of a healer, and the courage of someone willing to speak the truths most would rather bury or simply erase. She reminds us that healing is not just about survival. It is about joy, belonging, and reclaiming our right to feel. The Cost of Healing in Silence is both testimony and scholarship; a gift to those who live with the daily realities of weathering and to anyone committed to building systems where Black wellness is possible." --Arline T. Geronimus , ScD, author of Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society " The Cost of Healing in Silence is a balm and a call to action for Black communities who have been told to ''be strong'' and quiet, and for every practitioner who has not been taught how to address the root of racial trauma.
Ashley McGirt-Adair beautifully illuminates what so many of us know in our bones--that when care ignores culture, silence becomes survival--and this book gives the language and a grounded, hopeful path from healing in silence to healing out loud." --Jennifer Mullan, PsyD, psychologist, Founder of Decolonizing Therapy®, Ancestral Lineage Worker, and author of the Best Seller Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice "For too long the legacy of American Chattel Slavery as it relates to Black people, has haunted the souls of Black people of the diaspora both nationally and internationally for far too long! The Cost of Healing in Silence provides the reader an opportunity to start their personal journey of healing so that the chains and legacy of slavery can be eradicated one link at a time." --Delbert Richardson , historian, owner, and curator of the national award winning "Unspoken Truths" American history traveling Museum "Part memoir and part cri de coeur, The Cost of Healing in Silence is a compelling indictment of our system-less system of mental health care. In the tradition of Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark, Ashley McGirt-Adair reveals how the wounds the Clarks documented in children during the 1940s and 50s remain with us to this day - and why culturally responsive care is essential to healing." --Tim Spofford, author of What The Children Told Us.