Belonging is within reach
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Belonging is within reach •
Guiding Mixed Race People Toward a Deeper Sense of Belonging with Themselves & Others
Somatic Coaching and Group Courses for Multiracial & Multi-cultural People Worldwide
Your entire life, you've been on the receiving end of inappropriate questions, hurtful comments, and confused stares, and it's affected you deeply.
And - worse yet - no one seems to get it. Your family and friends can’t relate. People are always invalidating your reality and telling you you’re just being sensitive. Even the therapists you’ve worked with haven’t been able to support you in the ways you need.
It’s left you feeling fragmented, empty, and like you don’t belong anywhere.
And yet, you have this constant - and very human, I might add - yearning to feel whole. And to have relationships where you feel held, seen, and heard.
A part of you hasn’t given up - you want to believe that you can find belonging.
You're in the right place.
How I’ve helped my mixed clients heal their belonging wounds & reconnect to their innate wholeness
Feeling seen in their mixed-ness
“Working with Raina was like finally having all the dots connect. As a person who is never just this or that, I find my experience is never fully accounted for in other spaces that center binaries. Raina's ability to weave theory, lived experience and practice together, designed for me as a mixed person, was deeply resonant.”
Building relationships without worrying about being rejected
“I was struggling with a sense of belonging as a mixed person, and a lot of fears around potential rejection and what others thought of me. I feel much more grounded in my own sense of self and able to distinguish others' needs from my own. I'm confident that I can build relationships that feel good for me from a place of authenticity, and can hold space for any fears or nerves that arise. Our work together has helped me feel more deeply rooted into myself and my ancestry.”
Feeling safe enough in her body to seek community
“Raina's knowledge of how trauma lives in the body and her techniques to become more safely embodied have helped me become an active participant in my life again. She’s given me the tools to seek community and connection in new and exciting ways!”
Hi, I’m Raina
As a trauma therapist for nearly a decade, a yoga teacher for over 13 years, and a community health educator for even longer, I saw for healing spaces for mixed race people that:
(1) specifically addressed the somatic impact of racialized trauma and monoracism,
and (2) centered the very foundational human need for connection and belonging.
And so, Mixed Race Belonging was born.
When you work with me you’ll be fully supported and seen in the unique experiences of being multiracial or multicultural. I’ll show you that belonging - truly satisfying belonging from the inside-out and outside-in - is possible.
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There are a couple of ways I can help you.
Both options are virtual, so no matter where you are, we can work together.
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Bold Belonging
A 1:1 somatic coaching experience to help you accomplish a personal belonging project without feeling held back by your fears, insecurities, or what other people think.
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Belonging Building Blocks
A group program helping you develop the skills to feel more connected to yourself and others so you can cultivate the community you’ve always dreamed of.
Featured In
Belonging and The Body @ Multiracial Mental Health Podcast. 2025.
Understanding & Empowering Mixed Race Kids @ Ann Arbor Public Library. 2024.
Self-Care for College Students @ Enlighten U. 2024.
Interview with Dr. Jill Wener @ Conscious Anti-Racism Podcast. 2023.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Embodying Mixed Identities, Loneliness and the Dangers of Somatics @ Somatic Wisdom Podcast. 2023.
In between identities, racial trauma and relationships [ spotify ] [ apple podcasts ] @ Complex Trauma Recovery Podcast. 2023.
Raina LaGrand on Five Things We Can Each Do To Help Solve the Loneliness Epidemic @ Authority Magazine. 2023.
Restoring our Identities [ spotify ] [ apple podcasts ] @ Initiated Survivor Podcast. 2023.
Helping Clients with Identity in Trauma Treatment with Raina LaGrand @Trauma Treatment Collective Podcast. 2022.
Liberation through Joy, Play, Pleasure and Movement With Raina LaGrand of Root to Rise Somatics @The Living Open Podcast. 2022.
How Emotions and Trauma are Held in the Body @ The Body Nerd Show. 2021.
Through the Prism: How Colorism Affects the Black Community. @ Michigan Chronicle. 2021.
Financial Healing @ Mind Money Balance Podcast. 2021.
What is Racial Trauma? @ Ann Arbor District Library. 2020.
Mixed Race Belonging is built on trauma-informed and liberation-oriented principles.
I am proud to support individuals from all ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, genders, abilities, economic backgrounds, and citizenship statuses.
Black Lives Matter, Free Palestine, Land Back, and all that goodness.
Whether you identify as mixed, biracial, multiracial, or something else, you are welcome here. If you’re white-assumed, you are welcome here. If you only grew up around your white one side of your family, you are welcome here. If you don’t know any other mixed people, you are welcome here. If you have other intersectional identities - queer, adopted, disabled, undocumented, poly, kinky, neurocomplex - you are welcome here.
This work is about personal and collective liberation. None of us are free unless all of us are free. Let’s do this - together.
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