Why I Wrote My Book Owning Our Struggles
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I wrote the proposal for Owning Our Struggles in the fall of 2020, a year that changed people's lives worldwide in a way we never expected. It was a year of loss, pain, tragedy, and disconnection. Since then, many of us have been grappling with the impact 2020 had on our relationships, families, careers, and even our Identities. We are still healing from the racial, social, and environmental trauma bestowed on us, and I wrote this book as a guide and roadmap to help us heal together and not alone.
In Owning our Struggles: A Path to Healing and Finding Community in a Broken World, I help you learn the power of collective healing as a powerful tool that enables you to heal from complex trauma. As a result, you will finally gain the tools you need to get unstuck, gain mental strength and build a healthier relationship with yourself and others. Each chapter focuses on a shared emotional struggle—from overcoming dysfunctional family patterns to developing emotional maturity, finding our village, navigating racial trauma, and moving past isolation and despair.
I wrote this book for people who want to learn how to heal from trauma through community care.
I wrote this book for people who come from dysfunctional homes and want to reconstruct the nuclear family concept and embrace chosen families as a path toward healing.
I wrote this book for people who struggle with race-based traumatic stress and need tools for healing that center on ancestral and cultural healing.
I wrote this book for people still plagued by the pain of their childhood trauma and who need inner child healing.
I wrote this book for people-pleasers who want to gain confidence and learn how to be assertive while guilt-free.
I wrote this book for people who want to learn how to be better friends, partners, parents, allies, and community members.
Discover the power of collective healing in this research-based and real-world guide to moving past trauma and adversity—together. Owning Our Struggles (TarcherPerigee/Penguin Random House) is currently on sale at all major book retailers!