Right within : how to heal from racial trauma in the workplace

Right within How to heal from racial trauma in the workplace

Minda Harts

Book - 2021

"In these tumultuous times, as workplaces across the nation struggle to become truly inclusive, women of color need frank talk and honest advice on how to deal with microaggressions, how to heal from racialized trauma, how to find relief from invisible workplace burdens. The stakes are high, as even Lauryn Hill had put it: "How you gonna win when you ain't right within?" In Right Within, Harts offers essential self-help guidance for readers to learn to steady themselves, steer their outlook, and find much-needed joy at work. Filled with Harts's signature wit and warmth, Right Within offers strategies for women of color to build confidence, banish imposter syndrome, and move beyond past triggers they may not even kno...w still cause pain. She encourages women of color to advocate for themselves effectively, and also helps reframe the challenges they face, to refocus past career disappointments into opportunities to move forward. Harts not only shares stories and wisdom gained from her personal journey, but she includes advice from therapists and faith leaders on a full range of ways to heal. Through her company The Memo, Minda Harts has worked with Fortune 500 companies to offer guidance and support for women of color on the rise. Here, through action points and clear-eyed coaching, Harts offers the roadmap to summoning hidden reserves of strength and courage. The path ahead can require hard internal work, but it's worth it if this enables readers to breathe freer and feel more like themselves at work. And in the end, Right Within will help women of color strengthen their voices and resolve across corporate America, ensuring that we can all, finally, rise together"--

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Subjects
Diversity in the workplace.
Minority women > Employment.
Microaggresions.
Published
New York : Seal Press 2021.
Language
English
Main Author
Minda Harts (author)
Physical Description
ix, 277 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9781541619623
  • I can't give up now
  • Addressing the pain
  • Healing for my soul
  • Trying to be right within
  • How will I know
  • Maintenance
  • Healing while in hell
  • You are not alone
  • Take care.
Review by Booklist Review

Harts argues that we need to understand that racism kills both people and careers, and that workplace injustices do incredible harm. She goes on to explain the labor involved with being the only Black woman in the office, facing microaggressions from colleagues and a lack of support from human resources. Women of color learn to adjust or acclimate themselves to these injustices, telling themselves not to "rock the boat." But they cannot keep avoiding the wounds of the past. In this vital guidebook for women of color in the workplace, Harts describes the state of racialized trauma--which, exacerbated by overlapping crises, worsened for the author in 2020--and offers validation and solutions where possible. Women of color need freedom at work--from stereotypes such as the Angry Black Woman, from past triggers, from current toxicity, and from unnecessary pain. Intended for the women who face the disproportionate amount of workplace discrimination as well as the people who cause it, Right Within lays out the tools and strategies necessary to dismantle these systemic problems. Finally, the author urges readers to understand there are paths forward, and to remember that they are not alone. A necessary addition to business collections.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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