Recovery From The Lie Of Whiteness Becoming Aware

Author : Andrea Travers
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1098364201

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Recovery from the Lie of Whiteness: Becoming Aware by Andrea Travers Pdf

When Rev. Dr. David Alexander, the Spiritual Director of the Center for Spiritual Living in Atlanta, Georgia, expressed his vision for a 12-Step workbook on May 31, 2020 with an intention to start a grass roots consciousness movement to awaken white people to the "white lies", prejudices and biases which have built and sustained racism embedded in this country, I was inspired. As an Interfaith Minister whose doctoral work interpreted the 12 Steps of AA based on their universal principles, into the eight wisdom traditions, I knew I could bring over 20 years of experience - practicing, teaching, researching, writing, and guiding to this project. (www.12wisdomsteps.com) Rev. Alexander and I attracted a team of inspired People of Color (Blacks and others) who were passionate about creating a workbook of exercises that would assist people both individually and in groups to utilize the 12 steps for this purpose, maintaining the integrity of the founders' 12 Step design to ensure its efficacy. Six writers from Atlanta and one from San Diego County, CA collaborated for six months to create an interactive methodology whereby whites can learn from the Black perspective: life experiences, history, beliefs, values, goals and dreams by comparing these with their own. These insights are gifts offered to whites; becoming the grist for the mill through which we can break through our assumptions, misconceptions, presuppositions and our lack of understanding about the collective and the individual "other" who doesn't look like us. As Martin Buber explains, this workbook helps us acquire a new worldview in which we see others in "I-thou" relationships - identifying common ground and focusing on our mutuality.

Author : Thomas Bien,Beverly Bien
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780470245576

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Mindful Recovery by Thomas Bien,Beverly Bien Pdf

"This wise book provides practical exercises that will help us to develop conscious awareness and inner understanding, and the ways and means to free us from unsatisfying habits, addictions, and unconscious behavior patterns. I recommend it highly." --Lama Surya Das, author of the bestselling Awakening the Buddha Within "Anyone interested in finding a kind, spiritual guide to recovery that focuses on flexibility rather than the 'one true way' will benefit from this enjoyable and helpful book." --Maia Szalavitz, coauthor with Joseph Volpicelli, M.D., of Recovery Options: The Complete Guide In Mindful Recovery, you'll discover a fresh and effective method for healing from addiction that can help you handle important challenges, from managing anxiety and resisting cravings to dealing with emotional and physical imbalance. Drawing on both ancient spiritual wisdom and the authors' extensive clinical psychological work with their patients over many years, Mindful Recovery shows you how to use the simple Buddhist practice of mindfulness to be aware of-- and enjoy-- life in the present moment without the need to enhance or avoid experience with addictive behaviors. Mindful Recovery guides you step by step through ten powerful "doorways" to mindful recovery, giving you specific strategies that can help you cultivate a sense of calm awareness and balance in your life. Filled with personal stories of recovery, practical exercises, instructions for meditation, and more, Mindful Recovery accompanies you on a journey of exploration and healing that will help you find the strength and the tools to change, leading you to a fresh new experience of everyday living.

Author : Anneliese A. Singh
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781684032723

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The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh Pdf

A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal. Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. This journey can be a bumpy ride, and before we begin healing, we need to gain an understanding of the role history plays in racial/ethnic myths and stereotypes. In so many ways, to heal from racism, you must re-educate yourself and unlearn the processes of racism. This book can help guide you. The Racial Healing Handbook offers practical tools to help you navigate daily and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative messages and privileges, and handle feelings of stress and shame. You’ll also learn to develop a profound racial consciousness and conscientiousness, and heal from grief and trauma. Most importantly, you’ll discover the building blocks to creating a community of healing in a world still filled with racial microaggressions and discrimination. This book is not just about ending racial harm—it is about racial liberation. This journey is one that we must take together. It promises the possibility of moving through this pain and grief to experience the hope, resilience, and freedom that helps you not only self-actualize, but also makes the world a better place.

Author : Peter K. Gerlach MSW
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 145687506X

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Who's Really Running Your Life? Fourth Edition by Peter K. Gerlach MSW Pdf

Links below will take you to the non-profit Break the Cycle! Web site. Use your browsers back button to return. Premise - psychological "wounding" is epidemic in America because of an unseen inherited cycle of ineffective parenting and ignorance. This book describes the wounds, what they mean, and what to do about them. This fourth edition (Feb. 2011) will introduce you to your inner family, and who leads it in calm and crisis times. If you dont know who comprises your inner crew or whos in charge of them, you may be living life as a hostage to a false self and not know it. If so, youre probably living well below your potential, and may also be wounding kids in your life without meaning to. The rest of the book outlines an effective way to reduce any significant wounds, and live a calmer, more authentic, productive, satisfying life. Notice your reaction to these proposals and to the books title. I suspect you think Well I am running my life! Sure - but have you ever thought about who I is? Reality check: Have you ever had experiences like these? Blowing hot and cold about someone or something? Saying On one hand, and on the other? Obsessively second-guessing (doubting) an important decision youve made? Having discussions or "arguments" with yourself inside your head? An inner voice ceaselessly berating you for being stupid, dumb, weird, or unlovable? Loved and hated someone at the same time? Wanted to do something and simultaneously not wanted to do it? Done something impulsive and later thought What got into me? Known people who seemed two-faced, talked out of both sides of their mouth, and like two different people? Felt young when around an authority figure or perhaps a critical parent? yellow or mean streak, a blue mood a musical side, a silver tongue, or a way with kids? These are everyday signs of an invisible condition that shapes the lives of you and everyone you know. Its based on a marvelous survival feature of our human neural system recently called multiplicity: our brains wired-in ability to respond to childhood environmental threat by fragmenting into regions with special abilities. Using radiographic PET scans, were the first generation in history to be able to see these regions operating concurrently. The unitary experience of I see my child laugh involves many regions of your brain at once without your knowing it. So does everything you do! Main Ideas This book results from my professionally studying and practicing inner family therapy ("parts work") since 1992. It describes what Ive come to believe without question about average women and men like you: Normal people have personalities that are composed of a group of subselves or parts, like members of an orchestra or athletic team. Each subself has its own talent or gift, its own values, goals, and limitations. Our inner families of subselves can range from harmonious to chaotic in calm and crisis times. The nature of our subselves and the relationships among them are determined in the first several years of life of average kids. If kids are

Author : Martin J. Lee
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781645301547

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Recovery in Black and White in America (PB) by Martin J. Lee Pdf

Recovery in Black and White in America By: Martin J. Lee Our nation’s youth are in the grips of an opioid crisis. Young and old addicts are overdosing and dying daily. Recovery programs and fellowships are helping immensely. Recovery in Black and White in America exposes the ignorance and the arrogance of our American society’s ills that tend to interfere with the recovery process of many addicts and alcoholics.

Author : Andrea L. Dottolo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000372694

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Lesbians and White Privilege by Andrea L. Dottolo Pdf

There are three overarching themes that connect the chapters: interdisciplinarity, intersectionality, and identity. This interdisciplinary compilation includes contributions from scholars in cultural studies, social work, English, psychology, anthropology, and education. Essays include empirical research, making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods as well as personal reflections and interpretation. Each chapter makes central the critical significance of intersectionality, locating privilege and oppression within larger social systems and institutional structures, as an ‘interlocking matrix of relationships.’ These chapters challenge, recognize, and question whiteness, with the intention that they encourage us to do the same, in our own lives, practices, behaviors, and disciplines. By taking whiteness seriously, we might begin to move toward explicit antiracist efforts, dismantling those structures and hierarchies that enable only some to speak as ‘just humans.’ The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies.

Author : Brian DesRoches,Brian Desroches, Ph.D.
Publisher : Wellness Institute, Inc.
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1587410338

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Reclaiming Your Self by Brian DesRoches,Brian Desroches, Ph.D. Pdf

From an expert in the field comes the first and only complete step-by-step plan for recovery from codependence--the self-destructive behavior that results when people are so obsessed with the needs of others that they neglect their own.

Author : Sherrow O. Pinder
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739164914

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Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States by Sherrow O. Pinder Pdf

Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States, in order to account for the never ending discrimination toward racialized ethnic groups including First Nations, blacks, Chinese, and Mexicans, revisits the history of whiteness in the United States. It shows the difference between remembering a history of human indignities and recreating one that composes its own textual memory. More specifically, it reformulates how the historically reliant positionality of whiteness, as a part of the everyday practice and discourse of white supremacy, would later become institutionalized. Even though “whiteness studies,” with the intention of exposing white privilege, has entered the realm of academic research and is moving toward antiracist forms of whiteness or, at least, toward antiracist approaches for a different form of whiteness, it is not equipped to relinquish the privilege that comes with normalized whiteness. Hence, in order to construct a post white identity, whiteness would have to be denormalized and freed of it of its presumptive hegemony.

Author : Kathleen DesMaisons
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780307491459

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The Sugar Addict's Total Recovery Program by Kathleen DesMaisons Pdf

Building on the science of nutrition that she outlined in her bestselling book, Potatoes Not Prozac, Dr. Kathleen DesMaisons now presents the first complete, in-depth dietary plan for living with–and healing–sugar sensitivity. She explains exactly how you can free your mind and body from the tyranny of sugar and shake off the exhaustion, mental fogginess, and mood swings that sugar dependence causes. Revealing the various ways sugar addiction affects both men and women, and the unique methods for healing it, Dr. DesMaisons encourages you to custom-tailor her simple program to fit your lifestyle and includes information on • How to integrate a “slow-carbs not low-carbs” strategy into your diet • Why regular protein is essential and how to get it with every meal • What to eat when a sugar craving strikes • How to get the nutrition you need on the run–even at fast-food restaurants • How to find an exercise program you’ll enjoy • Ten breakfasts you can prepare in a flash • Menus and recipes for every lifestyle and taste Practical, hands-on, and reader friendly, The Sugar Addict’s Total Recovery Program will transform your life by helping you eat right–starting today!

Author : Amanda J. Lucia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Festivals
ISBN : 9780520376953

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White Utopias by Amanda J. Lucia Pdf

Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. In this groundbreaking book, Amanda J. Lucia shows how these festivals operate as religious institutions for "spiritual, but not religious" (SBNR) communities. Whereas previous research into SBNR practices and New Age religion has not addressed the predominantly white makeup of these communities, White Utopias examines the complicated, often contradictory relationships with race at these events, presenting an engrossing ethnography of SBNR practices. Lucia contends that participants create temporary utopias through their shared commitments to spiritual growth and human connection. But they also participate in religious exoticism by adopting Indigenous and Indic spiritualities, a practice that ultimately renders them exclusive, white utopias. Focusing on yoga's role in disseminating SBNR values, Lucia offers new ways of comprehending transformational festivals as significant cultural phenomena.

Author : Gloria S. White
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781591608349

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The Path of Grace by Gloria S. White Pdf

Author : Mckay Jenkins
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781400033102

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The White Death by Mckay Jenkins Pdf

In 1969, five young men from Montana set out to accomplish what no one had before: to scale the sheer north face of Mt. Cleveland, Glacier National Park's tallest mountain, in winter. Two days later tragedy struck: they were buried in an avalanche so deep that their bodies would not be discovered until the following June. The White Death is the riveting account of that fated climb and of the breathtakingly heroic rescue attempt that ensued. In the spirit of Peter Matthiessen and John McPhee, McKay Jenkins interweaves a harrowing narrative with an astonishing expanse of relevant knowledge ranging from the history of mountain climbing to the science of snow. Evocative and moving, this fascinating book is a humbling account of man at his most intrepid and nature at its most indomitable.

Author : Laurens Van Der Post
Publisher : Random House
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781407072975

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A Walk with a White Bushman by Laurens Van Der Post Pdf

Explorer, novelist, writer and film-maker, Sir Laurens van der Post was one of the most influential figures of our era. Here, in conversation with Jean-Marc Pottiez, he records his ideas and insights into a wide range of issues and personalities, forged by a lifetime of vast experiences and challenges.

Author : Layla Saad
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781728209814

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Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad Pdf

The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. "Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice."—New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations. Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism in your own home. This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining: Examining your own white privilege What allyship really means Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation Changing the way that you view and respond to race How to continue the work to create social change Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. For readers of White Fragility, White Rage, So You Want To Talk About Race, The New Jim Crow, How to Be an Anti-Racist and more who are ready to closely examine their own beliefs and biases and do the work it will take to create social change. "Layla Saad moves her readers from their heads into their hearts, and ultimately, into their practice. We won't end white supremacy through an intellectual understanding alone; we must put that understanding into action."—Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller White Fragility

Author : Jennifer Matesa
Publisher : Hazelden Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781616495374

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The Recovering Body by Jennifer Matesa Pdf

"The Recovering Body offers simple, effective ways for addicts to heal the damage caused by substance abuse. Jennifer Matesa focuses on five areas of healing: through exercise and activity, sleep and rest, nutrition and fuel, sexuality and pleasure, and meditation and awareness"--