You Belong, Sebene Selassie
You Belong, Sebene Selassie
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You Belong
A Call for Connection

Author: Sebene Selassie

Narrator: Sebene Selassie

Unabridged: 8 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperOne

Published: 08/25/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

"A POWERFUL WORK OF SPIRITUALITY AND ANTI-RACISM"—Publishers Weekly"IF YOU READ ONE BOOK IN 2020, MAKE IT THIS ONE."—Tricycle From much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie, You Belong is a call to action, exploring our tangled relationship with belonging, connection, and each otherYou are not separate. You never were. You never will be.We are not separate from each other. But we don’t always believe it, and we certainly don’t always practice it. In fact, we often practice the opposite—disconnection and domination.  From unconscious bias to “cancel culture,” denial of our inherent interconnection limits our own freedom.In You Belong, much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie reveals that accepting our belonging is the key to facing the many challenges currently impacting our world. Using ancient philosophy, multidisciplinary research, exquisite storytelling, and razor-sharp wit, Selassie leads us in an exploration of all the ways we separate (and thus suffer) and offers a map back to belonging. To belong is to experience joy in any moment: to feel pleasure, dance in public, accept death, forgive what seems unforgivable, and extend kindness to yourself and others. To belong is also to acknowledge injustice, reckon with history, and face our own shadows. Full of practical advice and profound revelations, You Belong makes a winning case for resisting the forces that demand separation and reclaiming the connection—and belonging—that have been ours all along.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Sebene Selassie

Sebene Selassie is a teacher & author who guides people to remember and trust their belonging. Born in Ethiopia and raised in Washington DC, she is trained as a meditation teacher, an integral coach, and as a practitioner of Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy (IFOT). She offers courses, workshops, and retreats online and in person and is one of the most popular teachers on the Ten Percent Happier meditation app. She lives with her partner Frederic on unceded Lenape territory in Brooklyn, NY. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen

Catching up… This will not be a typical book review. It is more like a feeling felt after reading a book that touches readers deeply. At least that is what happened for me when I read it. This is what she said. “You belong. Everywhere. Yes, you – with all your history, anxiety, pain. Yes, everywhere –......more

Goodreads review by cara

this feels like the love child of radical acceptance by tara brach and pleasure activism by adrienne maree brown, which i very much appreciated......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

Sebene is one of my favorite teachers on the Ten Percent Happier app so I was excited to read this book. It did not disappoint. I listened to the audiobook, as read by the author, and I enjoyed listening to it in her voice, but feel like I need a hard copy to underline and ponder. Sebene presented s......more

Beautiful book from one of my favorite mediation teachers. I would recommend it for people who are both new to mindfulness and for long time practitioners. I would especially recommend it for POC because her excellent treatment of the ways racism and capitalism thwart connection. She covers a lot of......more