Decolonizing the Body

Healing, Body-Centered Practices for Women of Color to Reclaim Confidence, Dignity, and Self-Worth

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Pub Date 06 Apr 2023 | Archive Date 01 Mar 2023

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Powerful, body-based practices to help you reclaim confidence, dignity, and self-worth. As a woman of colour, you are more likely to experience oppression, discrimination, and physical or sexual violence in your lifetime. In addition, your family may have experienced generational trauma and systemic racism going back for centuries. This old and new trauma can manifest in both the mind and body.

However, there are ways you can free yourself from this trauma, build confidence in yourself and your abilities, and restore your powerful sense of self. Written by a woman of colour for women of colour, Decolonizing the Body offers proven-effective somatic, body-centred practices to help you heal from systemic oppression, trust the profound wisdom of your own body, and reconnect with your true self. And by slowing down, cultivating a daily ritual, and setting strong boundaries, you can reclaim your inherent dignity and worth-as well as those aspects of yourself that you may have cast aside in an effort to survive.

With this empowering guide, you'll discover:
·How bodies are colonized through systems of oppression
·Why slowing down is essential for healing
·How to listen to what your body needs
·How to create a space for ritual in your daily life
·How to strengthen feelings of capability
·How to cultivate community-starting with yourself

To decolonize the body is to become whole again, and to come home again. Let this book be your guide on this crucial journey.

Powerful, body-based practices to help you reclaim confidence, dignity, and self-worth. As a woman of colour, you are more likely to experience oppression, discrimination, and physical or sexual...


Advance Praise

“Decolonizing the Body is a vital offering to women of color seeking a somatic approach to community healing. Practical, earthy, and wise, Blackwell invites us to do the inner work, and is a trustworthy guide for our time.”

—Ruth King, author of Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out

“Decolonizing the Body is beautifully written, instructive, and inspiring. In accessible but flowing language, Kelsey Blackwell starts by reminding us that the body never lies. She helps us remember how to hear its signals, and even more importantly, provides a practical guide to freeing ourselves from the boxes that patriarchy, racism, and capitalism try to force us into.”

—Rinku Sen, social justice strategist, and author of Stir It Up

“Decolonizing the Body is a vital offering to women of color seeking a somatic approach to community healing. Practical, earthy, and wise, Blackwell invites us to do the inner work, and is a...


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ISBN 9781648480614
PRICE £16.99 (GBP)
PAGES 176

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