Joyous Resilience: A Path to Individual Healing and Collective Thriving in an Inequitable World
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With so much information available on the most effective ways to build resilience—ranging from general tips for better mental health, such as meditation, exercise, time in nature and online hygiene, to the latest statistics and strategies that neuroscience can offer—what keeps people from implementing all this well-meaning advice? Or if you practice these techniques and still find yourself exhausted, irritable, unhappy, anxious or dissatisfied, do you ever wonder what is missing?
The fact is, we are all navigating an exhausting, disconnecting, do-more-buy-more culture that disproportionately harms those with marginalized identities and leads us to believe that our thriving depends solely on individual effort. Mainstream wellness culture doesn’t account for the ways that social oppression and economic injustice intersect to make resilience difficult for many of us to access in the first place. So, where do we begin?
In this warm and accessible guide, Pakistani American therapist Anjuli Sherin provides a healing path to make thriving possible for everyone. Through compelling client stories and reflective exercises, she offers a culturally informed, body -centered model that shows us how cultivating self-nurturance, healthy boundaries, pleasure, and a soulful connection to the natural world can give us the generative energy needed to heal individual and collective trauma and shape our world from an inner magic called joyous resilience.
About the Author:
Anjuli Sherin, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma recovery, resilience building and cultivating joy. She has more than 15 years of practice working with immigrant, South Asian, Middle Eastern, Muslim and LGBTQ+ populations. Sherin received her B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Mary Washington University and her M.A. from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Sherin also trained and mentored with leading figures in trauma recovery and energy psychology, including Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Staci Haines and Vianna Stibal. In addition to awards for academic excellence and community service, Sherin received the 2007 Emerging Leader Award from the E-women Network and has been featured in O Magazine as a finalist for the O Magazine/White House Leadership Project.
"AN INTERSECTIONAL GUIDE TO BUILDING RESILIENCE AND RECLAIMING JOY. CLINICAL THERAPIST ANJULI SHERIN EXPLORES EMPOWERMENT, IDENTITY, OPPRESSION, AND RESILIENCE, AND EXPLAINS HOW THEY RELATE TO YOUR OWN RESILIENCE PRACTICE. OFFERING GUIDED MEDITATIONS, REFLECTIVE PROMPTS, AND CASE EXAMPLES TO HELP YOU HEAL FROM BOTH INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES AND COLLECTIVE TRAUMA, THIS IS A CULTURALLY-INFORMED AND COMMUNITY-CENTERED ROADMAP TO RESILIENCE THAT WILL HELP YOU BECOME YOUR BEST ALLY, EMPOWER YOU TO THRIVE UNDER STRESS, AND RECONNECT TO JOY".
With so much information available on the most effective ways to build resilience—ranging from general tips for better mental health, such as meditation, exercise, time in nature and online hygiene, to the latest statistics and strategies that neuroscience can offer—what keeps people from implementing all this well-meaning advice? Or if you practice these techniques and still find yourself exhausted, irritable, unhappy, anxious or dissatisfied, do you ever wonder what is missing?
The fact is, we are all navigating an exhausting, disconnecting, do-more-buy-more culture that disproportionately harms those with marginalized identities and leads us to believe that our thriving depends solely on individual effort. Mainstream wellness culture doesn’t account for the ways that social oppression and economic injustice intersect to make resilience difficult for many of us to access in the first place. So, where do we begin?
In this warm and accessible guide, Pakistani American therapist Anjuli Sherin provides a healing path to make thriving possible for everyone. Through compelling client stories and reflective exercises, she offers a culturally informed, body -centered model that shows us how cultivating self-nurturance, healthy boundaries, pleasure, and a soulful connection to the natural world can give us the generative energy needed to heal individual and collective trauma and shape our world from an inner magic called joyous resilience.
About the Author:
Anjuli Sherin, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma recovery, resilience building and cultivating joy. She has more than 15 years of practice working with immigrant, South Asian, Middle Eastern, Muslim and LGBTQ+ populations. Sherin received her B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Mary Washington University and her M.A. from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Sherin also trained and mentored with leading figures in trauma recovery and energy psychology, including Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Staci Haines and Vianna Stibal. In addition to awards for academic excellence and community service, Sherin received the 2007 Emerging Leader Award from the E-women Network and has been featured in O Magazine as a finalist for the O Magazine/White House Leadership Project.
"AN INTERSECTIONAL GUIDE TO BUILDING RESILIENCE AND RECLAIMING JOY. CLINICAL THERAPIST ANJULI SHERIN EXPLORES EMPOWERMENT, IDENTITY, OPPRESSION, AND RESILIENCE, AND EXPLAINS HOW THEY RELATE TO YOUR OWN RESILIENCE PRACTICE. OFFERING GUIDED MEDITATIONS, REFLECTIVE PROMPTS, AND CASE EXAMPLES TO HELP YOU HEAL FROM BOTH INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES AND COLLECTIVE TRAUMA, THIS IS A CULTURALLY-INFORMED AND COMMUNITY-CENTERED ROADMAP TO RESILIENCE THAT WILL HELP YOU BECOME YOUR BEST ALLY, EMPOWER YOU TO THRIVE UNDER STRESS, AND RECONNECT TO JOY".