Prentis Hemphill is a writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer, and therapist. They are the founder and director of the Embodiment Institute and the Black Embodiment Initiative, and the host of the acclaimed podcast Finding Our Way. Their work and writing have appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, You Are Your Best Thing (edited by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown), and Holding Change (by adrienne maree brown).
I love this book. Hemphill offers us a visionary, personal, compassionate, empowering guide for our healing as individuals, within the histories of our families, and deep within the broader contexts of our communities, societies, and the world at large. -- BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, author of The Body Keeps the Score It’s a rare thing for a book to be beautifully intimate and wildly expansive at the same time, but that is precisely what What it Takes to Heal manages to be. -- BRENÉ BROWN This book will be both the 'aha' moment and the balm for so many people who are saddled with vacant platitudes that don't give them a way forward. It is what we need in this moment and will be foundational for generations to come. -- TARANA BURKE, author of Unbound 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 Hemphill teaches us where healing begins, and how crucial our healing is for the worlds we want to conjure. -- adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism