{"product_id":"tending-grief-embodied-rituals-for-holding-our-sorrow-and-growing-cultures-of-care-in-community-paperback","title":"Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCamille Sapara Barton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Camille Sapara Barton is a gift to all of us. ... This is what emergent strategy looks like at the precipice.\"\u003cbr\u003e --adrienne maree brown, author of \u003ci\u003ePleasure Activism\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn embodied guide to being with grief individually and in community--practical exercises, decolonized rituals, and Earth-based medicines for healing and processing loss \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe live in a culture that suppresses our ability to truly \u003ci\u003efeel\u003c\/i\u003e our grief--deeply, safely, and on our own terms. But each person's experience is as unique as the grief itself. Here, Camille Sapara Barton's take on grief speaks directly to the ways that BIPOC and queer readers disproportionately experience unique constellations of loss. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeeply practical and easy to use in times of confusion, trauma, and pain, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTending Grief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e includes rituals, reflection prompts, and exercises that help us process and metabolize our grief--without bypassing or pushing aside what comes to the fore. Sapara Barton includes exercises that can be done both alone and in community, including: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAltar practices to honor and connect with ancestors known and unknown\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLocating, holding, and dancing your grief\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSharing circles for processing communal loss\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWater, fire, and nature-based rituals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHonoring the survival utility of numbness--and knowing when it's time to release it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeer support and integration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHerbal medicines and plant-based healing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSapara Barton honors each and every experience: The loss of displacement from homelands, from severed lineages and ancestral ways of knowing. The grief of colonization and theft. The deep heaviness that burrows into our bodies when society tells us our bodies are wrong. Practical tools and rituals help readers feel into their grief, honor what comes up, and move forward in healing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten specifically to center and hold the grief of BIPOC readers, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTending Grief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is an invitation to reconnect to what we've lost, to find community in our grief, and to tend to our own suffering for our individual and collective wellbeing.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCamille Sapara Barton is a writer, artist, and embodied social justice facilitator. They have been tending grief since 2017 and have developed public resources, programs, and tools to cultivate the practice with others. Rooted in Black Feminism, ecology, and harm reduction, Camille is dedicated to creating networks of care and livable futures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased in Amsterdam, they designed and directed Ecologies of Transformation (2021 - 2023), a masters program exploring socially engaged art-making with a focus on creating change through the body into the world. Camille curates events and offers consultancy combining trauma informed practice, experiential learning, and their studies in political science. They love plants, music, and dancing.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.6 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748847976736,"sku":"9781623179946","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/79ba4b2ca9d4a8d8b3024be43fbb25ff.webp?v=1779918036","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/tending-grief-embodied-rituals-for-holding-our-sorrow-and-growing-cultures-of-care-in-community-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}