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

by Myisha T. Hill

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1955905029
• ISBN13: 9781955905022
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Row House Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"

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.