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Finding refuge : heart work for healing collective grief / Michelle Cassandra Johnson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder, Colorado : Shambhala, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 150 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781611809367
  • 1611809363
Subject(s):
Contents:
Foreword / by Amy Burtaine -- Introduction: Turning toward my own grief -- Shared language -- The root -- A little of this practice -- Wholeness -- Enlarged hearts -- Ushering us -- The hive mind -- The taproot -- Epilogue.
Summary: "Finding Refuge is a book designed to guide you through exploring what is breaking your heart, where grief resides, and how it impacts you. This book is intended to serve as a tool for healing yourself, thus allowing you to create conditions to heal what continually shatters many of us-the immense amount of suffering on the planet. It is a resource designed for you to be present with your grief by committing to a spiritual practice. It is a resource designed for you to digest the unprocessed grief that has emerged from the losses we are experiencing as a collective-the planet, resources, relationships, and connection; the pain of living in an unjust world. It is a resource that beckons you to be present to your broken heartedness while remaining open hearted"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 204.42 J68 Available 33111010559975
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Learn how to process your own grief--as well as family, community, and global grief--with this fierce and openhearted guide to healing in an unjust world.

In unsettling and uncertain times, the individual and collective heartbreak that lives in our bodies and communities can feel insurmountable. Many of us have been conditioned by the dominant culture to not name, focus on, or wade through the difficulties of our lives. But in order to heal, we must make space for grief and prioritize our wholeness, our humanity, and our inherent divinity.

In Finding Refuge , social justice activist, social worker, and yoga teacher Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers those who feel brokenhearted, helpless, confused, powerless, and desperate the tools they need to be present with their grief while also remaining openhearted. Through powerful personal narrative and meditation and journaling practices at the end of each chapter that explore being present with your heart, Michelle empowers us to see that each of us has a role to play in building enough momentum to take intentional action and shift what is unsettled and unjust in the world. Finding Refuge is an invitation to pick up the shattered parts of yourself and remember your strength, wholeness, and sacredness through this practice of presence and attending to your grief.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Finding Refuge is a book designed to guide you through exploring what is breaking your heart, where grief resides, and how it impacts you. This book is intended to serve as a tool for healing yourself, thus allowing you to create conditions to heal what continually shatters many of us-the immense amount of suffering on the planet. It is a resource designed for you to be present with your grief by committing to a spiritual practice. It is a resource designed for you to digest the unprocessed grief that has emerged from the losses we are experiencing as a collective-the planet, resources, relationships, and connection; the pain of living in an unjust world. It is a resource that beckons you to be present to your broken heartedness while remaining open hearted"-- Provided by publisher.

Foreword / by Amy Burtaine -- Introduction: Turning toward my own grief -- Shared language -- The root -- A little of this practice -- Wholeness -- Enlarged hearts -- Ushering us -- The hive mind -- The taproot -- Epilogue.

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