Waking Up Alone
Waking Up Alone
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In this unflinching and vulnerable book, psychologist Nicole Wordlaw exposes the impact of intergenerational trauma and internalized race and gender narratives, through the lens of a Black woman seeking spiritual freedom on her own terms.
Waking Up Alone is part memoir, part map: a vulnerable, fiercely honest exploration of what it means to awaken as a Black woman born into a nation rooted in complex trauma; a nation in which limiting stories about race, gender, and spiritual awakening capture the collective consciousness.
Clinical psychologist Dr. Nicole Wordlaw—Stanford and Berkeley-trained, longtime Buddhist practitioner, daughter of a Black father and white mother, and former partner of a greatly admired spiritual teacher—traces her journey from a little girl seeking love through obedience, to a woman unraveling the cultural myths that shaped her. Through the lenses of race, womanhood, and power, she reveals how systems of domination live not only in our institutions but inside our own minds and in our most intimate relationships.
Waking Up Alone invites readers to recognize the cages they’ve inherited, question the roles they’ve been taught to play, and listen within for freedom’s quiet song. This is a book for anyone ready to unlearn, to awaken, and to remember who they were before the world told them who to be.
Waking Up Alone is part memoir, part map: a vulnerable, fiercely honest exploration of what it means to awaken as a Black woman born into a nation rooted in complex trauma; a nation in which limiting stories about race, gender, and spiritual awakening capture the collective consciousness.
Clinical psychologist Dr. Nicole Wordlaw—Stanford and Berkeley-trained, longtime Buddhist practitioner, daughter of a Black father and white mother, and former partner of a greatly admired spiritual teacher—traces her journey from a little girl seeking love through obedience, to a woman unraveling the cultural myths that shaped her. Through the lenses of race, womanhood, and power, she reveals how systems of domination live not only in our institutions but inside our own minds and in our most intimate relationships.
Waking Up Alone invites readers to recognize the cages they’ve inherited, question the roles they’ve been taught to play, and listen within for freedom’s quiet song. This is a book for anyone ready to unlearn, to awaken, and to remember who they were before the world told them who to be.
