Loving Corrections: 12 (Emergent Strategy)

This is needed. Not just for movement relationships but for all our relationships- friends and family, neighbors. It’s so easy to make people into monsters in our heads. This book gives clear and loving advice on how we can create clear boundaries without resorting to punishment and cruelty, and how we can create opportunities for repair. We need this.

Wonderful book! Another great book by amb. Great insight and read at the right time. Look forward to the next.

This book arrived in the mail yesterday and I am almost done. I cried more than once. adrienne maree brown is vulnerable, honest, challenging and so wise. I felt deepened as a person by reading this. If you want guidance for how to navigate this complex moment in history with compassion and self-reflection read this.

There’s a lot of great things to take from the book, but there are some criticisms I felt while reading. Some concepts I wish were expanded on with explanations and examples. Adrienne would make statements, and offer advice on the end result, or what you should do, but there often is not an answer to “how” or sometimes “why.” It’s great as an overview but to delve into the topics will take more time and effort. I also didn’t like some of the magical stuff. I grew up with spells, and energy talk, and magic, and astrology, and whatnot and it’s just not for me. Though for those that think it’s a reason not to read, it’s not. Just skip over those sections because the book does bring up a lot of good points and it did inspire me to be more intentional in my conflict resolution and really push me out of my comfort zone to reasonably understand my loved ones. Though there is so much more to learn.

We are deeply in need of this conversation as a community. Wonderful book. I’m reading and listening to the audio book at same time.