What It Takes To Heal

I love this book. Hemphill offers us a visionary, personal, compassionate, empoweringguide for our healing as individuals, within the histories of our families, and deep withinthe 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 sametime, 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 aresaddled with vacant platitudes that don’t give them a way forward. It is what we need inthis 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 innecessary defiance.

Hemphill teaches us where healing begins, and how crucial our healing is for theworlds we want to conjure.

A powerful, prescient, incisive book that helps us better understand ourselves, ourrelationships, 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 usup to the possibility that everything actually could be different. And it does so onegorgeous sentence after the next.

In the tradition of James Baldwin, Hemphill invites us in close and personal toexperience life, pain, beauty, injustice and healing. I’ll read this again and again.

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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