![]() This groundbreaking book goes further, helping us to manage the challenges that stem from oppression and moving beyond self-love and into belonging. For marginalized people, a focus on self-love can be a spoonful of sugar that makes the oppression go down. Focusing only on self-love ignores the important fact that we have negative experiences because our culture has targeted certain bodies and people for abuse or alienation. Radical Belonging is not a simple self-love treatise. Being erased and devalued impacts our ability to regulate our emotions, our relationships with others, our health and longevity, our finances, our ability to realize dreams, and whether we will be accepted, loved, or even safe. Being "othered" and the body shame it spurs is not "just" a feeling. ![]() ![]() Those of us who don't fit into the "mythical norm" (white, male, cisgender, able-bodied, slender, Christian, etc.)-which is to say, most of us-are demanding our basic right: To know that who we are matters. We are in the midst of a cultural moment. ![]() This isn't your personal failing it means that our culture is failing you. Too many of us feel alienated from our bodies. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote the novel for his six children to explain his own journey through pain and misery to "light, love and transformation," according to a profile in USA Today. According to the book jacket, Young was raised by missionary parents living among a Stone Age tribe in New Guinea. The glowing reviews for The Shack hail it as everything from the new Pilgrim’s Progress (theologian Eugene Peterson, translator of the Bible paraphrase The Message) to "the best novel of 2007" and "one of the rare fiction books that could change your life" (various five-star reviewers). Young, and started out being sold out of a garage. The Shack has become a publishing phenomenon, a bestseller by a first-time author that has rocketed up the sales charts and was made into a movie-not bad for a book that was self-published by the author, William P. ![]() ![]() ![]() Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, a sophisticated professional. She drank through her yeras at an Ivy League college, and through an award-winning career as an editor and columnist. Drinking is Caroline Kapp's harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol.Ĭaroline had her first drink at fourteen. And then, like so many love stories, it fell apart. The way she slipped from the dinner table to the bathroom, from work to the bar. The way she hid her bottles behind her lover's refrigerator. The way the glasses clinked and the conversation flowed. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottle. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. ![]() |