Healing is a Contribution: A Chronic Illness Survivor’s Guide to Personal and Collective Liberation is a light-hearted guide to the mental, spiritual, and emotional healing of chronic illness in our current cultural context.
The pandemic has shown us with greater clarity just how broken our systems are, and how much we need each other to heal and survive. This is the first chronic illness book to address personal, collective, and systemic healing simultaneously. It postulates that doing the mental, emotional, and spiritual healing work needed to heal physical health challenges contributes to our collective liberation because it frees up our energy, creativity, and attention to envision and embody real, lasting social change. Sharing lessons from healing justice, disability justice, cultural somatics, her work with clients, and her own healing from late-stage Lyme disease, Noëlle shows readers just how much agency they have in both their personal healing and in healing societal and systemic oppression that contributes to our disease.
The book guides readers to build a foundation for personal healing; understand the connection between systemic oppression, trauma, and chronic illness; and heal in community so they can reclaim their agency, live in right relationship, and build a joyous, connected life.
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