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