{"product_id":"the-inner-work-of-racial-rhonda-v-magee-9780143132820","title":"The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Illuminates the very heart of social justice and how it might be approached and nurtured through mindfulness practices in community and through the discernment and new degrees of freedom these practices entrain.\" --from the foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a society where unconscious bias, microaggressions, institutionalized racism, and systemic injustices are so deeply ingrained, healing is an ongoing process. When conflict and division are everyday realities, our instincts tell us to close ranks, to find the safety of those like us, and to blame others. This book profoundly shows that in order to have the difficult conversations required for working toward racial justice, inner work is essential. Through the practice of embodied mindfulness--paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in an open, nonjudgmental way--we increase our emotional resilience, recognize our own biases, and become less reactive when triggered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Sharon Salzberg, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eReal Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e writes, \"Rhonda Magee is a significant new voice I've wanted to hear for a long time--a voice both unabashedly powerful and deeply loving in looking at race and racism.\" Magee shows that embodied mindfulness calms our fears and helps us to exercise self-compassion. These practices help us to slow down and reflect on microaggressions--to hold them with some objectivity and distance--rather than bury unpleasant experiences so they have a cumulative effect over time. Magee helps us develop the capacity to address the fears and anxieties that would otherwise lead us to re-create patterns of separation and division. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is only by healing from injustices and dissolving our personal barriers to connection that we develop the ability to view others with compassion and to live in community with people of vastly different backgrounds and viewpoints. Incorporating mindfulness exercises, research, and Magee's hard-won insights, \u003ci\u003eThe Inner Work of Racial Justice\u003c\/i\u003e offers a road map to a more peaceful world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rhonda V. Magee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143132822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143132820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tarcherperigee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/14\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.10d","brand":"Rhonda V. Magee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053649785087,"sku":"9780143132820","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_782591d9-bd7c-4854-a30f-a5fa8ba81abc.jpg?v=1685025480","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-inner-work-of-racial-rhonda-v-magee-9780143132820","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}