Therapy book club is a shared space for reflection, dialogue, and growth. Together, we’ll explore the themes and teachings within each book, noticing how they resonate with our lived experiences and personal healing journeys. This is a space to gently hold ourselves and one another accountable to integrating new insights into daily life, while nurturing a community grounded in support, connection, and collective healing.
Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger
by Lama Rod Owens
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In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation?
White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death. “In Love and Rage, Lama Rod Owens, coauthor of Radical Dharma, shows how this unmetabolized anger–and the grief, hurt, and transhistorical trauma beneath it–needs to be explored, respected, and fully embodied to heal from heartbreak and walk the path of liberation. This is not a book about bypassing anger to focus on happiness, or a road map for using spirituality to transform the nature of rage into something else. Instead, it is one that offers a potent vision of anger that acknowledges and honours its power as a vehicle for radical social change and enduring spiritual transformation.
Love and Rage weaves the inimitable wisdom and lived experience of Lama Rod Owens with Buddhist philosophy, practical meditation exercises, mindfulness, tantra, pranayama, ancestor practices, energy work, and classical yoga. The result is a book that serves as both a balm and a blueprint for those seeking justice who can feel overwhelmed with anger–and yet who refuse to relent. It is a necessary text for these times.”
Synopsis from North Atlantic Books https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/love-and-rage/