Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy and Connection
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Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy and Connection
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They use insights from such thinkers as bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Thich Nhat Han to dissect the physical, sexual, and emotional abuse they suffered from their partner, referred to as X, and lay out how they achieved self-compassion. Zhu’s candid storytelling, both/ands and all, underscores an uncomfortable but deeply human truth: Healing from abuse is a complicated, nonlinear process. Mimi brings so much kindness and vulnerability to their words, and makes it feel imperative to bring the same compassion to ourselves.
When I finally grieved my relationship with X, I was able to acknowledge that my capacity for tenderness did not die along with our union; I just needed to be redirected toward myself. His tears did not make anybody at the table uncomfortable, and I do not think they made him uncomfortable either. It can be both ends, where, for example, if it's someone who you truly are realizing is causing you harm and has no accountability, then by all means for your own self-preservation, for your own healing, that relationship is no longer healthy. It is not surprising that in the Anthropocene, human beings are obsessed with inventing technologies to achieve immunity to both sadness and death. Somatic healing practitioners have distinguished the most common survival strategies as flight, fight, freeze, appease, and dissociate.Because it can be such an overwhelming and powerful feeling, it is helpful to pay attention to what other emotions it is working with; otherwise, anger can become impulsive and dominating. it was also reflective in a way that made me think more about the life i live and the one i want to live fully. MIMI ZHU 朱希媛 on Instagram: "an excerpt from my upcoming book “be not afraid of love” that i also posted on my stories.
And so I found that transferring that skill into sharing was daunting at first, but I’ve really learned how to just be completely honest in what I share publicly because of the reception that I’ve gotten. And we require so much support during our grieving processes, but at the same time, I think pushing grief away can actually be very harmful to the self, to others as well. As freeing as it was to tell their story as a survivor, Zhu’s book-writing process was not without pain.When we allow ourselves to be complicated,” they tell me, “we can heal and be more centered and intentional about our actions moving forward, instead of just pushing a part of us away. Loving myself did not mean that I had to confine myself to an island and loving my life did not mean that I had to venture through it alone. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading.
They reference several feminist and social justice-oriented texts in this collection, including writings by bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Ling Ma, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Mia Mingus. And I really want to make sure that I included as many people as I could because they allowed me to come into my healing. This book is a continuation of that re-learning, exploring the intersections of love and fear in self-esteem, friendship, family dynamics and romantic relationships, and extending out to its effects on society and the greater political realm.But Zhu’s voice is about to reverberate far beyond social media with their debut book released this week, Be Not Afraid of Love, which is a meditation on what they learned from queer community after surviving an abusive relationship.
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be not afraid of love' really encouraged me to honor all of my feelings (discarding the idea of "good" vs. Durante o período de teste, é possível usufruir de todos os benefícios da assinatura de maneira gratuita. Be Not Afraid of Love is both a question and an answer, beckoning the reader to interrogate the power of love, the utility of love. I think Zhu flips between “showing” us snippets of their past relationship and their healing with “telling” us things about the emotional and political insights they’ve acquired. In Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection, Chinese-Australian author Mimi Zhu translates the thought-provoking, text-based work they have become known for on Instagram into a book filled with wisdom, imagination, and tips for healing.
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