![]() ![]() These same sentiments were highlighted by scholar Ibram Kendi who said in a recent interview “accountability could be a more restorative justice approach as opposed to an approach of canceling engaging…we have to give people the grace to make mistakes.” hooks makes a powerful case for how we can deal with harm caused within society. bell hooks has been quoted as saying “how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?” hooks was emphasizing the importance of accountability while also allowing a person the space and grace to grow and change. (Photo by Karjean Levine/Getty Images) Getty Imagesģ. NEW YORK - DECEMBER 16: Author and cultural critic bell hooks poses for a portrait on December 16. The authors defined collective healing as “group-based processing and coping among those who share a common identity.” To promote wellbeing, we should ensure that we are creating opportunities to come together and share similar experiences. In an insightful Harvard Business Review piece, the authors wrote about the importance of allowing employees an opportunity for collective healing. Being able to commune with others who share our same or similar experiences can provide a restorative outlet for racialized people. Being “the only” Black person, for example, in your workplace can leave you feeling depleted and exhausted. Those who navigate spaces being “the only” recognize how challenging this experience can be. hooks was emphasizing the importance of being in community and how therapeutic our communities can be. Healing is an act of communion.” This quote can be interpreted in a number of ways. In hook’s 1999 classic All About Love she wrote “rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Or maybe she would explain how none of the categories created for her sum her up or capture her essence.2. Maybe she would tell of the time, in the mountains with bare feet on the ground, she stood tall and wise and felt every cell in her body smile in assent as she inhaled and exhaled and in one loud second realized, I’m alive! I’m enfleshed! only to forget it the next. Or about how there are moments when her own strength startles her, and moments when her weakness-her forgetfulness, her fear, her exhaustion-unnerve her. Perhaps she would talk about being underestimated, about surprising people and surprising herself. Or of the reality that with new life comes swollen breasts, dry heaves, dirty diapers, snotty noses, late-night arguments, and a whole army of new dangers and fears she never even considered before because life-giving isn’t nearly as glamorous as it sounds, but it’s a thousand times more beautiful. Perhaps she would speak of the surprise of seeing herself-flaws and all-in the mirror on her wedding day. Or of this screwed-up notion of purity as a status, as something awarded by men with tests and checklists and the power to give it and take it away. Perhaps she would speak of impossible expectations and all the time she’s wasted trying to contort herself into the shape of those amorphous silhouettes that flit from magazines and billboards into her mind. Perhaps she would speak of the way a regular body moves through the world-always changing, never perfect-capable of nurturing life, not simply through the womb, but through hands, feet, eyes, voice, and brain. “But what might a woman say about church as she? What might a woman say about the church as body and bride? ![]() Try focusing on what you share as sisters in the gospel, rather than the negative aspects you dislike about that person.” If you wish to love them, the only way to overcome your frustrations is through empathy, prayer, forgiveness and allowing yourself time to heal through distance. ![]() If you choose not to like someone, then avoid them. It is a silent, unspoken hypocrisy that is inconsistent with the teachings of the gospel. This game is so often used by women in the Christian faith, that it is the number one reason why many people become inactive. From your point of helplessness, it will be is easy to recruit people that will mistake your kindness as righteousness, when in reality it is a hidden agenda to humiliate through the words of Christ. Before you know it, you’re using the gospel as a sword to slice other religious people apart, which have offended you. Otherwise, you will allow your piety to take over. However, when you don’t like someone then you need to walk away and focus not on him or her, but the hatred you’re harboring. ![]()
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