Don't tell me to relax Emotional resilience in the age of rage, feels, and freak-outs
Book - 2020
"A handbook for staying grounded, emotionally connected, and empowered regardless of what's in the headlines or who's in your face"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Self-help publications
- Published
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Boulder :
Shambhala
2020.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First Edition
- Physical Description
- ix, 215 pages ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-214) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781611808407
- Introduction: Waking Up in a World on Fire
- A Note Regarding the Practices in This Book
- Part 1. A Time to be Fiery
- 1. The Past is Present
- When the Trauma of Right Now Intertwines with the Trauma of Yesterday
- 2. The Wisdom of an Enraged Goddess
- Learning to Trust Our Anger
- 3. Emotional Alchemy
- Skills for Using Fire without Getting Burned
- Practices
- When You Encounter Horrible Headlines
- Self-Love for a Part of You That Needs It Most
- When Thoughts Scream: The Self-Love Approach to Calming Inner Critics and Overwhelm
- Part 2. A Time to be Tender
- 4. What the Self-Love Movement Is Missing
- 5. I Can't Even
- When You Feel Like You've Got Nothing Left to Give
- 6. The Bear We Must Learn to Bear
- The Guilt of Saying No
- 7. About That Meditation Practice You're Kinda Sorta Sometimes Maybe Doing
- Practices
- Grounding: Body of Breath
- Summoning Inner Resources
- The Anxiety Interruption Tool Kit
- A New Depression Inventory Checklist: From One Depression Survivor to Another
- Part 3. A Time to Understand
- Interlude: The Healing Power of Theory
- 8. The Defender and the Sage
- Emotional Intelligence in the Context of Active Traumatization and Oppression
- 9. Why We Hate
- Deepening Our Understanding of Implicit Bias
- 10. The Neuropsychology of Identity Politics
- Why Embracing Who and What You Are Matters
- Interlude: Why Demographic Identity Awareness Belongs in Spiritual Culture
- Practices
- Heart Breathing
- Rewiring Unconscious Bias
- Reflecting on Our Origins: Atonement, Gratitude, and Going Forth
- Part 4. A Time to Work It Out
- 11. When They Come at You the Wrong Way
- How to Not Absorb the Gift of Someone Else's Awfulness
- 12. We Gotta Talk
- Navigating Difficult Conversations
- 13. Called Out or Called In?
- Moving from Habitual to Intentional
- 14. Cutting through Privilege Guilt
- Practices
- Developing Discernment
- Lovingkindness for All Your Inner Children
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- About the Author