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Decolonizing the Body: Healing, Body-Centered Practices for Women of Color is a transformative guide designed to empower women of color to reclaim their confidence, dignity, and self-worth. Written by Christena Cleveland and Kelsey Blackwell, this invaluable resource delves into the unique challenges women of color face, including systemic oppression, discrimination, and the impact of generational trauma. With 176 pages filled with powerful, effective somatic practices, this book provides essential insights on how to heal from the trauma that affects both mind and body.
This essential guide encourages women to reconnect with their bodies and embrace their inherent worth. Through mindful practices, daily rituals, and strong boundary-setting, Decolonizing the Body helps readers nurture their inner wisdom while cultivating a supportive community. The foreword by Dr. Christena Cleveland adds depth, showcasing the importance of body-centered healing in overcoming oppression.
Whether you wish to learn how to listen to your body’s needs, understand why slowing down is crucial for healing, or discover how to make space for ritual in your daily life, this book is a must-read for any woman of color seeking personal and collective healing. Each page is a step toward restoring a powerful sense of self that has been too often suppressed by societal pressures.
Your journey towards healing and empowerment begins here. Embrace your body’s wisdom and reclaim your narrative with Decolonizing the Body, available in BRAND NEW paperback format from New Harbinger Publications.
Decolonizing the Body: Healing, Body-Centered Practices for Women of Color to Reclaim Confidence, Dignity, and Self-Worth
By Cleveland, Christena
By Blackwell, Kelsey
Foreword by Cleveland, Dr. Christena
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages 176
Publisher New Harbinger Publications
Powerful, body-based practices to help you reclaim confidence, dignity, and self-worth.As a woman of color, you are more likely to experience oppression, discrimination, and physical or sexual violence in your lifetime. In addition, your family may have experienced generational trauma and systemic racism going back for centuries. This old and new trauma can manifest in both the mind and body. However, there are ways you can free yourself from this trauma, build confidence in yourself and your abilities, and restore your powerful sense of self.Written by a woman of color for women of color, Decolonizing the Body offers proven-effective somatic, body-centered practices to help you heal from systemic oppression, trust the profound wisdom of your own body, and reconnect with your true self. And by slowing down, cultivating a daily ritual, and setting strong boundaries, you can reclaim your inherent dignity and worth--as well as those aspects of yourself that you may have cast aside in an effort to survive.With this empowering guide, you'll discover: How bodies are colonized through systems of oppressionWhy slowing down is essential for healingHow to listen to what your body needsHow to create a space for ritual in your daily lifeHow to strengthen feelings of capabilityHow to cultivate community--start
This essential guide encourages women to reconnect with their bodies and embrace their inherent worth. Through mindful practices, daily rituals, and strong boundary-setting, Decolonizing the Body helps readers nurture their inner wisdom while cultivating a supportive community. The foreword by Dr. Christena Cleveland adds depth, showcasing the importance of body-centered healing in overcoming oppression.
Whether you wish to learn how to listen to your body’s needs, understand why slowing down is crucial for healing, or discover how to make space for ritual in your daily life, this book is a must-read for any woman of color seeking personal and collective healing. Each page is a step toward restoring a powerful sense of self that has been too often suppressed by societal pressures.
Your journey towards healing and empowerment begins here. Embrace your body’s wisdom and reclaim your narrative with Decolonizing the Body, available in BRAND NEW paperback format from New Harbinger Publications.
Decolonizing the Body: Healing, Body-Centered Practices for Women of Color to Reclaim Confidence, Dignity, and Self-Worth
By Cleveland, Christena
By Blackwell, Kelsey
Foreword by Cleveland, Dr. Christena
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages 176
Publisher New Harbinger Publications
Powerful, body-based practices to help you reclaim confidence, dignity, and self-worth.As a woman of color, you are more likely to experience oppression, discrimination, and physical or sexual violence in your lifetime. In addition, your family may have experienced generational trauma and systemic racism going back for centuries. This old and new trauma can manifest in both the mind and body. However, there are ways you can free yourself from this trauma, build confidence in yourself and your abilities, and restore your powerful sense of self.Written by a woman of color for women of color, Decolonizing the Body offers proven-effective somatic, body-centered practices to help you heal from systemic oppression, trust the profound wisdom of your own body, and reconnect with your true self. And by slowing down, cultivating a daily ritual, and setting strong boundaries, you can reclaim your inherent dignity and worth--as well as those aspects of yourself that you may have cast aside in an effort to survive.With this empowering guide, you'll discover: How bodies are colonized through systems of oppressionWhy slowing down is essential for healingHow to listen to what your body needsHow to create a space for ritual in your daily lifeHow to strengthen feelings of capabilityHow to cultivate community--start