In a time of uncertainty and devastation--from pandemics to environmental catastrophe--a call to action for finding beauty, creating art, and healing in community.When a beloved place is decimated by physical damage, many may hit the donate button or call their congressperson. But award-winning author Trebbe Johnson argues that we need new methods for coping with these losses and invites readers to reconsider what constitutes “worthwhile action.” She discusses real...

Trebbe Johnson neither hides from pain nor romanticizes joy. In the distinctive voice for which she is known, she explores how the true value of a sacred site is not always where we think it is, how a motorcycle ride upended a fear of desire, how it's possible to make friends with a clear-cut forest, and other pieces that ring startling new perspectives to things we often take for granted. These essays not only chart one woman's journey through a passionate life, they inspire all of us to ...

Johnson explores the concept of the Beloved the elusive alluring force that beckons us forth to passionate engagement with the world and shows how our sense of love is often linked to something far greater than ourselves. She explains that mistaking a human lover for the inner eternal Beloved is the first step in any romance yet the ability to distinguish between the two ultimately holds the key to our quest for personal freedom and fulfillment. Steeped in Western and Eastern myth and roma...

When grief and anxiety beat us down, the struggle to cope can feel like it's crushing us even more. To meet big challenges we need to develop fierce consciousness. In her new book Trebbe Johnson offers 35 practices that are smart, tough, sassy, and surprising. She shows how we can not only survive challenges to our personal lives and our ailing planet, but also engage with them in ways that give new meaning and beauty to daily experience."Fierce conscio...

'Spiritually Green' includes a selection of articles and interviews from 'GreenSpirit Magazine', spanning a period of twelve years. This book presents a diversity of green wisdom and Earth-centred practices, such as the importance of stories, eco-therapeutic work in green relationships, herbal medicine, rewilding, problems of consumerism, and much more. All chapters are by people who know their subject well and have been included because of the quality of the content....

In this 2023 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, multimedia producer Trebbe Johnson advocates opening to the possibility of wonder from surprising sources, so we can recognize that, even in the bleakest of times, beauty is possible.Johnson is the founder and director of the global community Radical Joy for Hard Times, and is devoted to finding and making beauty in hurt places. She observes that a new kind of heroism is needed in facing the dire problems of the 21st century -- th...

In a time of uncertainty and devastation--from pandemics to environmental catastrophe--a call to action for finding beauty, creating art, and healing in community.When a beloved place is decimated by physical damage, many may hit the donate button or call their congressperson. But award-winning author Trebbe Johnson argues that we need new methods for coping with these losses and invites readers to reconsider what constitutes “worthwhile action.” She discusses real...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writerA Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history.**

Feel like you don't belong? You're not alone.The world has never been more connected, yet people are lonelier than ever. Whether we feel unworthy, alienated, or anxious about our place in the world — the absence of belonging is the great silent wound of our times. Most people think of belonging as a mythical place, and they spend a lifetime searching for it in vain. But what if belonging isn't a place at all? What if it's a skill that has been lost or forgotten?With her sig...

Scientific and spiritual, Animal Wisdom thoughtfully explores “the ways in which animals, if we will but watch them and listen to them, can help us to live our lives more fully”—Jane GoodallHow is it that pets are able to travel thousands of miles through unknown territory to reunite with their beloved humans? How can dogs detect cancer with up to a 98 percent accuracy rate, and foresee epileptic or diabetic seizures in their owners? How do animals seem to...

How do we understand nature? Benevolent and supportive? Wild and threatening? Reassuring or unpredictable? We all have a different experience of, and relationship with, nature.Reflecting on nature's unknowable and mysterious qualities, Grounded explores how we can therapeutically benefit from a deeper connection with nature, finding within it balance, stillness, solitude, resilience, contentment, activity, fearlessness – and our own wild voice.Within this book, you...

This evocative new poetry collection speaks with a fierce tenderness of many aspects of the poet's life: a childhood spent on the banks of the Churchill River, the death of a beloved one, the struggle to try to find forgiveness for wrongs done and the weariness of trying to redress those wrongs. And, most poignantly, a beautiful rebellion reaches one hand back to Louis Riel and one hand forward to future Metis generations.The poems navigate losses that we all suffer when t...