What It Takes To Heal

What It Takes To HealCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781529935646 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2024 Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK Description: From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to heal on a personal and a collective level. *** Featuring a special UK introduction for all print and ebook editions *** 'A visionary, personal, compassionate, empowering guide' BESSEL VAN DER KOLK 'Beautifully intimate and wildly

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781529935646
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2024
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK


Description:
From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to heal on a personal and a collective level.



*** Featuring a special UK introduction for all print and ebook editions ***




'A visionary, personal, compassionate, empowering guide' BESSEL VAN DER KOLK




'Beautifully intimate and wildly expansive' BREN BROWN




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What would it do to movements, to our society and culture, to have the principles of healing at the very center? What does it mean to center healing in every structure and everything we create?




As we emerge from the past few years of collective upheaval, are we ready to face the complexities of our time with joy, authenticity, and connection? Now more than ever, we must learn to heal ourselves, connect with one another, and embody our values. In this revolutionary book, Prentis Hemphill shows us how.



What It Takes to Heal asserts that the principles of embodiment - the recognition of our body's sensations and habits, and the beliefs that inform them - are critical to lasting healing and transformation. Hemphill, an expert embodiment practitioner, therapist, and activist, who has partnered with Tarana Burke and Esther Perel, among others, shows us that we don't have to carry our emotional burdens alone. Hemphill demonstrates a future in which healing is done in community, weaving together stories from their own experience as a trauma survivor with clinical accounts and lessons learned from their time as a social movement architect.




In this life-affirming framework for