Announcing the publication of a new book, Healing Justice: Holistic Self-Care for Change Makers, published this month by Oxford University Press. Here's a brief description:
"In the context of global oppression, intergenerational trauma, burnout, and public services retrenchment, this book offers a framework, critical inquiries, case studies, and practices for social workers, counselors, activists, and other helping professionals. Drawing from the East-West modalities of mindfulness and yoga, healing justice is presented as a trauma-informed self-care that is an act of resistance to disconnection, marginalization, and internalized oppression. The book engages critically with self-care discourses including the emerging scientific evidence-base, cultural appropriation, and the commodification of mindfulness and self-care. The book also offers guidance for how to share self-care practices with community members who have less access to wellness."
And a reviewer's comments:
"This is a desperately needed book that reminds us that true healing involves both self-care and social justice work to address the underlying conditions that create stress and inequities. Based on penetrating analysis clearly informed by her own practice, Pyles offers us a new interdisciplinary paradigm that invites us to think beyond the individualism and dualism endemic to Western culture. She skillfully interweaves both practical and theoretical tools to breakdown the false dichotomy between caring for ourselves and our world and provides both hope and specific means for preventing burnout and cultivating resilience."
- John Chambers Christopher, PhD, Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Mind & Life Institute
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