CONTENTS

AUTHOR’S PREFACE

PROLOGUE

FOREWORD BY IJEOMA OLUO

Introduction

CHAPTER 1

It’s Not You, It’s Our Culture

CHAPTER 2

This Is Your Brain on Stress

CHAPTER 3

This Is Your Brain on Trauma

CHAPTER 4

This Is You Trying to Cope

CHAPTER 5

Fear Is Biological

CHAPTER 6

Shame Is Biological . . . and Political

CHAPTER 7

Getting to Vulnerability

CHAPTER 8

Connection Is the Antidote

CHAPTER 9

Why Self-Help Won’t Save Us

CHAPTER 10

Building Resilience, and Other Personal Tools for Liberation

CHAPTER 11

Beyond Self-Love

CHAPTER 12

Coming Home

APPENDIX

NOTES

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR