What It Takes To Heal
How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
$25.02
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
11 November 2025
Summary
*** 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’ BRENÉ BROWN
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804950845 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 180495084X |
| Author: | Prentis Hemphill |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 11 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 183g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 129mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
I love this book. Hemphill offers us a visionary, personal, compassionate, empowering
guide for our healing as individuals, within the histories of our families, and deep within
the broader contexts of our communities, societies, and the world at large.
It’s a rare thing for a book to be beautifully intimate and wildly expansive at the same
time, but that is precisely what What it Takes to Heal manages to be.
This book will be both the ‘aha’ moment and the balm for so many people who are
saddled with vacant platitudes that don’t give them a way forward. It is what we need in
this moment and will be foundational for generations to come.
In a time when so many of us are being trained in cynicism, this book stands in
necessary defiance.
Hemphill teaches us where healing begins, and how crucial our healing is for the
worlds we want to conjure.
A powerful, prescient, incisive book that helps us better understand ourselves, our
relationships, and how to fully be in this world, all while creating the next.
This book reckons with our major issues—trauma, race, social upheaval—and opens us
up to the possibility that everything actually could be different. And it does so one
gorgeous sentence after the next.
In the tradition of James Baldwin, Hemphill invites us in close and personal to
experience life, pain, beauty, injustice and healing. I’ll read this again and again.
Prentis Hemphill
Prentis Hemphill is a writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer, and therapist. They are the founder and director of the Embodiment Institute and the Black Embodiment Initiative, and the host of the acclaimed podcast Finding Our Way. Their work and writing have appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, You Are Your Best Thing (edited by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown), and Holding Change (by adrienne maree brown).
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