What It Takes To Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

Prentis Hemphill's What It Takes to Heal argues that embodiment principles are essential for lasting healing and transformation, demonstrating a future in which healing is done in community and woven together with clinical accounts and lessons learned from social movement architecture.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 25 July 2024
Publisher: Cornerstone

A visionary, personal, compassionate, and empowering guide, Bessel van der Kolk's Beautifully Intimate and Wildly Expansive offers a profound exploration of the complexities of our time. As we emerge from the past few years of collective upheaval, are we ready to face the challenges 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, has partnered with Tarana Burke and Esther Perel, among others, to demonstrate 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. They ask, What would it do to movements, to our society and culture, to have the principles of healing at the very center? And what does it do to have healing at the center of every structure and everything we create? In this life-affirming framework for the way forward, Hemphill shows us how to heal our bodies, minds, and souls—to develop the interpersonal skills necessary to break down the doors of disconnection and take the necessary risks to reshape our world toward justice.

Weight: 358g
Dimension: 225 x 145 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529935639