Level Up Guru: A Black Woman's Guide to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): for Navigating Sexism, Racism, and Classism

By Amal Marjani Bennett-Judge

Level Up Guru: A Black Woman's Guide to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for Navigating Sexism, Racism, and Classism
Tagline: Master your mind. Reclaim your peace. Rise anyway.

This is not your average self-help book. Level Up Guru is a healing manual, a battle cry, and a sacred permission slip for Black millennial women who are tired of surviving and ready to thrive.

Rooted in the life-changing principles of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), this guide offers trauma-informed, culturally grounded tools for emotional regulation, boundary-setting, and radical self-worth. Whether you're navigating the microaggressions of the workplace, the weight of generational trauma, or the pressure to be "strong" when you're soul-weary-this book meets you with language, practices, and reflections designed for your lived experience.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

Use radical acceptance to stop fighting reality and start reclaiming your energy

Practice mindfulness without culturally erasing your intuition or ancestral wisdom

Apply distress tolerance tools that work when therapy is too expensive or unavailable

Develop emotional regulation skills for handling triggers, grief, and burnout

Strengthen interpersonal effectiveness to protect your peace and communicate with power

Written with warmth, wisdom, and no fluff, Level Up Guru speaks directly to the heart of Black womanhood-where pain, power, and purpose intersect.

If you've ever felt like therapy wasn't made for you-this one is.

You are not too much. You are more than enough. And you are worthy of healing, here and now

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F89BMJ7W
• ISBN13: 9798283385945
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"