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What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

by Prentis Hemphill

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Healing through the body and in community

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Healing through the body and in community

Prentis Hemphill connects personal healing with collective change, presenting embodiment—the awareness of bodily sensations, habits, and the beliefs that shape them—as central to lasting transformation. The book frames emotional burdens as something people need not carry alone, linking individual experience to broader forms of connection. Its subject sits at the intersection of trauma, psychology, and embodied practice. This Random House Book Club edition also includes a discussion guide, giving book groups a built-in resource for conversation.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in trauma, embodiment, and personal healing.
  • Book clubs seeking material on the links between individual change and collective life.
  • Readers exploring psychological approaches to healing beyond an individual-only frame.

Themes

EmbodimentTrauma and healingPersonal and collective changeConnection and shared burdens

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Book overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to heal on a personal and a collective level, showing us that we don't have to carry our emotional burdens alone.

"I love this book."--Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score

"In a time when so many of us are being trained in cynicism, this book stands in necessary defiance."--Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies and This Here Flesh

This Random House Book Club edition includes a discussion guide at the back of the book.

What It Takes to Heal asserts that the principles of embodiment--the recognition of our body's sensations and habits, and the beliefs that inform them--are critical to lasting healing and change. Hemphill, an expert embodiment practitioner, therapist, and activist who has partnered with Bren
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