RBTS – The Hidden Mind Killer

This isn’t stress. It’s survival.

RBTS – The Hidden Mind Killer shines a light on a condition most people have never named—Race-Based Traumatic Stress—but nearly every Black person in America has felt.

Told through powerful, fictionalized stories based on real-life pain, this book captures the unseen weight of racism. From doctors who don’t believe your pain, to school counselors who dim your child’s brilliance, to the man who changes his clothes just to stay alive—each story pulls back the curtain on what it costs to move through America in Black skin.

This isn’t about what happened once.
It’s about what keeps happening—and how it shapes your body, your choices, your joy, and your silence.

RBTS is the trauma we’re told to “just deal with.” The pain passed down in glances, warnings, side comments, and policies that don’t say “Black,” but always seem to find us.

This book gives it a name. And in doing so, it gives you the right to finally say—you are not crazy.

You are carrying something heavy.
And now, you're not carrying it alone.