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Author Talk: Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT & Elisabet Velasquez in Dialogue.
Mon, Oct 27
|Café con Libros, Bk
We are excited to host Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT, author of "The Pain We Carry Workbook" and author/poet Elisabet Velasquez in dialogue.
Time & Location
Oct 27, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Café con Libros, Bk, 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216
About the Event
About the Book: Written by an author of color and based on her pivotal book, The Pain We Carry, this groundbreaking workbook provides a practical, step-by-step, and culturally informed approach to healing complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) as it is uniquely experienced by people of color. Using skills based in internal family systems (IFS) therapy, polyvagal theory, mindfulness, and more, readers will discover ways to feel safe in their bodies, build self-compassion, and find personal liberation—despite living within an oppressive social system.
Based on the powerful self-help guide, The Pain We Carry, this workbook will help you heal the invisible wounds of complex trauma and reclaim your mind, body, and spirit.
If you are a person of color who has experienced repeated trauma from the toxic stress of—discrimination, racialized violence, racial stigmatization, traumatic grief, legacies of intergenerational trauma, poverty, sexual trauma, interpersonal violence, or the remnants of colonial and historical trauma—you…
Tickets
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Books and bookish events are not the province of the privileged. This ticket is for those who most need the help. If you can afford the $5.00 charge for general admission, please save this for someone who can’t.
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This ticket grants entry to the event; it does not include a book. In addition, it does not guarantee a signed book. Purchase of a book is entirely dependent on stock availability at the time of the event.
$5.00
+$0.13 ticket service fee
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Sale ends
Oct 27, 8:30 PM
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$30.95
+$0.77 ticket service fee
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Oct 27, 8:30 PM
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$25.95
+$0.65 ticket service fee
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