"What It Takes to Heal" Book Club Evening

Join us for a one-night, therapist-led book club where we'll discuss into What It Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill. Together, we’ll explore the themes of healing, authenticity, and connection, reflecting on how these principles can guide us through our current times. Led by the Co-Founders of Green Door Therapy (a mental health counseling practice in Elmhurst) who are passionate about learning and embodying Hemphill’s message, we’ll discuss how healing ourselves is intricately linked to creating a more just world.

This evening will include brief journaling, group reflection, sharing, and embodiment practices designed to help us connect with our bodies and each other as we navigate the challenges of today’s world. Come ready to learn, reflect, and practice as we explore how to center healing in our personal and collective journeys.

Participants are encouraged to read Hemphill's book before joining on 4/24! If you would like to attend and have not read the book, you are still welcome!

Who: Adults 18+ are invited to join

When: April 24th from 6:30p-8p

Where: Brewpoint Craft, Elmhurst, IL

Fee: $15 total, with Green Door Therapy donating 75% of amount collected to the Loveland Foundation Therapy Fund, providing access to therapy for Black women and nonbinary individuals. Read more about the Loveland Foundation, HERE.

Description of "What It Takes to Heal" by Prentis Hemphill:

"As we emerge from the past few years of collective upheaval, are we ready to face the complexities of our time with joy, authenticity, and connection? Now more than ever, we must learn to heal ourselves, connect with one another, and embody our values. In this revolutionary book, Prentis Hemphill shows us how.
What It Takes to Heal asserts that the principles of embodiment—the recognition of our body’s sensations and habits, and the beliefs that inform them—are critical to lasting healing and change. Hemphill, an expert embodiment practitioner, therapist, and activist who has partnered with Brené Brown, Tarana Burke, and Esther Perel, among others, shows us that we don’t have to carry our emotional burdens alone. Hemphill demonstrates a future in which healing is done in community, weaving together stories from their own experience as a trauma survivor with clinical accounts and lessons learned from their time as a social movement architect. They ask, “What would it do to movements, to our society and culture, to have the principles of healing at the very center? And what does it do to have healing at the center of every structure and everything we create?”
In this life-affirming framework for the way forward, Hemphill shows us how to heal our bodies, minds, and souls—to develop the interpersonal skills necessary to break down the doors of disconnection and take the necessary risks to reshape our world toward justice."

More in Hemphill's book, HERE.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Brewpoint Craft Elmhurst, 617 North York Street, Elmhurst, United States