What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
A somatics teacher who worked with Black Lives Matter argues that political change and personal healing are one process, and is specific about what fear does to a body.
Hemphill, a therapist and somatics teacher who worked with Black Lives Matter, argues that political transformation and personal healing are the same work at different scales. The book is specific about the body, about what fear does to it and what safety actually requires, and unsentimental about how slow the process is.
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In What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World (public library), Hemphill considers the psychophysiology that makes fear such a powerful default
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