Real time reflections (and my summer reading list :)
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When I set out to write American Detox
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I would never have imagined that the questions I was asking
about "how have I/We been shaped by systems of dominance?" and
"what is it going to take for us to be well?" would be so timely
and urgent. Then again, history has a way of repeating itself
until we choose to do something different.

The legacy of colonization, slavery and exploitation that has
shaped our dominant story and collective consciousness is
manifesting itself in real time. What we are witnessing play out
around the world - modern day genocide and land theft, forced
labor and debt bondage, growing inequality and more - is
reinforcing what we've known all along; that "nothing ever goes
away until it teaches us what we need to know" (thank you, Pema
Chodron 💛). The only way to build a future is by repairing the
past.

The age-old myths that are shaping our current reality
(separation, supremacy and scarcity) are not just making us
unwell, they are threatening our collective survival. And until
we choose to detox, divest and dismantle ourselves and the
systems we are a part of, we won't ever be free.

But even as we face a precarious present and an uncertain future,
I am not without hope. What I have learned and discovered in
shared inquiry and practice with many YOU over the last few years
is that people are capable of change and recovery is possible.

Thank you for reading this book.

Thank you for asking hard questions.

Thank you for practicing new things.

Thank you for doing your part.

Thank you for staying the course.

And thank you for being on this journey with me. There are some
amazing things in the works - seeds ready to sprout - and I
cannot wait to share them with you 🙏

Kerri (she/her)

PS: I'm sharing some of my favorite books this summer from some
of my favorite people who are helping us meet this moment and do
what is necessary to thrive. Check it out.

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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 Brené Brown,
Tarana Burke, and Esther Perel, among others, shows us that we
don’t have to carry our emotional burdens alone. Hemphill
demonstrates a future in which healing is done in community,
weaving together stories from their own experience as a trauma
survivor with clinical accounts and lessons learned from their
time as a social movement architect. They ask, “What would it do
to movements, to our society and culture, to have the principles
of healing at the very center? And what does it do to have
healing at the center of every structure and everything we
create?”

GET THE BOOK!
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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 Brené Brown,
Tarana Burke, and Esther Perel, among others, shows us that we
don’t have to carry our emotional burdens alone. Hemphill
demonstrates a future in which healing is done in community,
weaving together stories from their own experience as a trauma
survivor with clinical accounts and lessons learned from their
time as a social movement architect. They ask, “What would it do
to movements, to our society and culture, to have the principles
of healing at the very center? And what does it do to have
healing at the center of every structure and everything we
create?”

GET THE BOOK!
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The five kleshas are: ignorance (avidya);
overidentification with ego (asmita); attachment to desire or
pleasure (raga); aversion or avoidance (dvesha); and fear of
death or letting go (abhinivesha). Each one leads us to create
tendencies and karma that move us away from realizing and
remembering our true nature and seeing ourselves as separate from
one another and the planet. In yogic terms, this perpetuates a
constant cycle of pain for us all. In Illuminating Our True
Nature, Johnson offers us a way to find a sense of clarity,
groundedness, and equanimity within ourselves by working through
the kleshas one-by-one using asana, pranayama, mudra,
mantra, reflection questions, and meditation.

GET THE BOOK!
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The five kleshas are: ignorance (avidya);
overidentification with ego (asmita); attachment to desire or
pleasure (raga); aversion or avoidance (dvesha); and fear of
death or letting go (abhinivesha). Each one leads us to create
tendencies and karma that move us away from realizing and
remembering our true nature and seeing ourselves as separate from
one another and the planet. In yogic terms, this perpetuates a
constant cycle of pain for us all. In Illuminating Our True
Nature, Johnson offers us a way to find a sense of clarity,
groundedness, and equanimity within ourselves by working through
the kleshas one-by-one using asana, pranayama, mudra,
mantra, reflection questions, and meditation.

GET THE BOOK!
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All In is a queer feminist memoir of cancer and what it
means to survive. With the generous and community-minded heart of
an organizer, Breedlove chronicles harms caused by our
profit-driven health care system, and explores the rigors of
single parenting while living with chronic illness; the medical
neglect that women, the LGBTQ+ community, and others on the
margins experience; and her challenges with addiction. And, like
Audre Lorde and Barbara Ehrenreich, she calls out the insidious
impact of “toxic positivity” on women who live with cancer. The
result is an intensely powerful narrative about the connective
potential of grief and forging a new life.

GET THE BOOK!
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All In is a queer feminist memoir of cancer and what it
means to survive. With the generous and community-minded heart of
an organizer, Breedlove chronicles harms caused by our
profit-driven health care system, and explores the rigors of
single parenting while living with chronic illness; the medical
neglect that women, the LGBTQ+ community, and others on the
margins experience; and her challenges with addiction. And, like
Audre Lorde and Barbara Ehrenreich, she calls out the insidious
impact of “toxic positivity” on women who live with cancer. The
result is an intensely powerful narrative about the connective
potential of grief and forging a new life.

GET THE BOOK!
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How are we incarcerated by others' gazes? Who gets to be
good in a society built upon hierarchy? How might we embrace each
other's madnesses? Sanah Ahsan asks questions that travel to the
heart of our humanness, bending the lines between psychologist
and client to show us the sacred nature of our wounds. These
poems kneel to the messiness of being alive, building altars to
complication and presence. Refusing binaries of gender or
religious doctrine, I cannot be good until you say it finds what
is to be revered in the grey spaces of morality, advancing
imagination and self-compassion as sites of
communion. Intricately weaving Quranic verse, psychology, and the
hip-hop soundtrack of their childhood, Sanah's poems reach for
divinity in the body; an archive that refuses erasure.

GET THE BOOK!
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How are we incarcerated by others' gazes? Who gets to be
good in a society built upon hierarchy? How might we embrace each
other's madnesses? Sanah Ahsan asks questions that travel to the
heart of our humanness, bending the lines between psychologist
and client to show us the sacred nature of our wounds. These
poems kneel to the messiness of being alive, building altars to
complication and presence. Refusing binaries of gender or
religious doctrine, I cannot be good until you say it finds what
is to be revered in the grey spaces of morality, advancing
imagination and self-compassion as sites of
communion. Intricately weaving Quranic verse, psychology, and the
hip-hop soundtrack of their childhood, Sanah's poems reach for
divinity in the body; an archive that refuses erasure.

GET THE BOOK!
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This is a book about a walk. This book is about a walk
that goes from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. It’s a book
about a walk that I have been dreaming of taking since I was
sixteen years old. I am now sixty years old. What you are reading
was written in six months. It is the start of a conversation. It
feels—and is—unfinished…I am listening for stories and then
finding ways to say them out loud. And then I am listening for
the bounce back. Listening for each story’s impact more than its
meaning. It’s how relationships, all relationships, work. Act.
Bounce back. Learn. Act again.

GET THE BOOK!
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This is a book about a walk. This book is about a walk
that goes from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. It’s a book
about a walk that I have been dreaming of taking since I was
sixteen years old. I am now sixty years old. What you are reading
was written in six months. It is the start of a conversation. It
feels—and is—unfinished…I am listening for stories and then
finding ways to say them out loud. And then I am listening for
the bounce back. Listening for each story’s impact more than its
meaning. It’s how relationships, all relationships, work. Act.
Bounce back. Learn. Act again.

GET THE BOOK!
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Here's to another year of radical inquiry, collective
movement and creative possibility!

Kerri Kelly email signature

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