Heal Your Way Forward: The Co-Conspirator's Guide to an Antiracist Future

By Myisha T. Hill

Book Overview

Heal Your Way Forward is a seminal work in antiracism, guiding white and white-identifying folks to utilize activism for intergenerational healing.

In 2018, myisha t hill created the @ckyourprivilege handle on Instagram to undo the harm created between white women and women of the Global Majority. After years of living in the micro- and macro-aggressions of white culture, myisha was tired of staying silent. But she wanted to do more than fight back--she wanted to heal forward.

"myisha t hill is a rare educator who comes from a place of compassion and profound emotional insight. She is leading a revolution of mind, heart, and soul, one that she now continues in her highly anticipated book, Heal Your Way Forward. myisha's work changes how we experience the world by helping us understand our place within it. This book shows anyone interested in human liberation the way to heal, to hope, and to become true advocates and co-conspirators -- not just for justice and change, but for the future of who we are as humans." -- Anna Paquin, Actress and Producer

In just over three short years, Check Your Privilege and myisha's personal platform have amassed more than 750K followers on Instagram and became hubs for interracial activism during the Great White Awakening of 2020. But like many antiracism activists, myisha saw the activism abate after the election of President Biden.

Heal Your Way Forward: The Co-Conspirator's Guide to an Antiracist Future is the trumpet call to white and white-identifying folks, guiding them to recognize their antiracism work as intergenerational healing. In her first major book, myisha asks the most critical question of antiracism work: what do we want the world to look like in seven generations?

This book is her answer, but also, it's a tactical, practical guide for learning (and unlearning), heal-ing (and feeling through the hurt), and committing (and recommitting) to real change and a reparative future.

This is the book myisha's 750,000 followers have been waiting for--a marriage of personal story, antiracist handbook, and an emotional plea to all people to be the change today so we can heal the world for tomorrow.

In this important work, myisha offers readers the ultimate reason to engage in activism--to create a better world not just for our babies, but for our babies' babies--and a clear strategy to change the future and nature of interracial activism by:
Sustaining the great white awakening by discovering the sweet spot of shame and vulnerability Making room for white tears Developing radical listening and lifelong learning Practicing the great act of recommitment And building a reparative future
As myisha shares, the more you fail forward, the more you heal your way forward, and the better we can heal the future together.

myisha t hill is a mental health activist, speaker, and entrepreneur passionate about mental wellness and empowerment for all. She runs the advocacy site Check Your Privilege with nearly 700K followers on Instagram. Additionally, myisha works with organizations and community groups taking white people on a self-reflective journey to explore their relationship with power, privilege, and racism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DMM47R75
• ISBN13: 9798991642804
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Row House Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Empathetic accountability for generational healing

Reading HYWF feels like an intimate conversation with the author. The vulnerability, candidness and authenticity Myisha brings to her writing makes you feel talked with, not talked at. There are no academic airs or wiffs of superiority. Just empathy, loving accountability and raw humanness. Another part I really like about this book are the exercises incorporated at such appropriate moments to help you work through all you are digesting and experiencing while engaging with its content. Don't let the word co-conspirator confuse you (I know it can have negative connotations in some spaces). In this context, it is about people conspiring in love and empathy and growth in an effort to make the world a better place for everyone and generations to come. Healing ourselves to help avoid repeating harm in the future. I know that probably sounds a little woo-woo, but reading this book feels so rooted in humaness and all that encompasses, especially those parts of being human that allow for so much possibility. (Gosh, it is really hard to explain things without spoilers!!!) I have read quite a few "lets be better" type books, and what really strikes me about this one is the realness. A lot of other books feel like they lean a little too far into the toxic positivity realm, shying away from real and raw. That is not the case in these pages. Myisha believes there are no throwaway people, and you really feel that reading this book. That alone feels so healing. Healing is hard. Peeling back the layers of our personal onions generates a full spectrum of emotions and challenges. This book helps guide and support you through it all. (There is also an online community you can join for support in your healing journey as well.) “It can be challenging to have our understanding of the world challenged, and it’s easy to feel powerless in the face of violence and terrorism, which is so easy to other. Those people are responsible, but not my people. But we are responsible for our communities. It is the old capitalist system that tells us otherwise, teaches us to pull ourselves up from our bootstraps and not ask for help, and similarly, not to offer help...Being a radical and loving co-conspirator means being a powerful ally for the people and the planet, by showing up and moving from inner work into powerful acts of change, growth, and resistance. The incredible side effect of all this growth is that as we move deeper into self-compassion, we move deeper into self-love, and I’m not talking about that look at yourself in the mirror, #livelaughlove kind of self-love. No, I am talking about loving your humanness so much, you love all humanness, and you become committed to saving it.”

Heal Your Way Forward is a great read and highly recommended in the world we live in!

Heal Your Way Forward:The Co-Conspirator's Guide to an Antiracist Future is so many things! Myisha's vulnerable share of her journey is an invitation for the reader to learn more about personal healing and moves us away from the shame that keeps us stuck in our heads. This book is now a part of my every day life and gave me steps to move my journey forward to pass on to my daughters and future generations working towards collective liberation.