Belonging is within reach
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Belonging is within reach •
Somatic-Based
Relationship Coaching
Helping Mixed Race People Navigate A World
That Wasn’t Designed For Us To Belong.
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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.
You're in the right place.
What you’ll learn here at
Mixed Race Belonging
will help you recover from a lifetime of
being described in fractions,
and finally feel whole
in every room, every relationship,
and any new experience you want to have.
Hi, I’m Raina
Hi, I’m Raina, a queer, mixed race, neurodivergent ciswoman who was bullied as a child for being different and constantly worried about being liked as a teenager and college student….
…Until I finally found peace by reconnecting with my body through yoga, somatic therapy, and politicized somatic practice as an adult.
This work transformed my life, helping me cultivate a thriving community of chosen fam, build TWO businesses that represent all of me, and so much more.
When you work with me you can trust you’ll be fully supported and seen in the unique experiences of being multiracial or multicultural.
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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 four-month somatic coaching experience that helps you build an intentional support circle of at least 3 chosen family in 16 weeks - even if you’re afraid you’re “not enough” or “too much.”
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The Mixed Race Belonging Collective
An online community for mixed race folks where you’ll finally feel less alone and gain somatic skills that will help you handle the hardest moments — in real time.
Featured In
Repairing Disconnection in Your Body as a Mixed Race Person @ Body Justice Podcast. 2026.
The Belonging Wound @ OurTrue Colors Podcast. 2026.
What the White Mother vs. Black Mother Debate Gets Wrong @ Mixed Auntie Confidential. Substack. 2026.
Belonging and The Body @ Multiracial Mental Health Podcast. 2025.
Understanding & Empowering Mixed Race Kids @ Ann Arbor Public Library. 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.
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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