Breaking Up with the Patriarchy: Decolonizing Our Lives and Returning to Kinship Worldview - Couverture souple

Herrmann, Susan L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1965101151 ISBN 13 : 9781965101155

Editeur : Open Spiral, 2026

Synopsis

There's a way of being human that predates the story we were handed. It sustained our species for 99% of our existence. It is still ours to remember.

The anxiety about our children's future. The grief for a planet in crisis. The loneliness of a culture that calls itself "connected." These are the felt experience of living inside patriarchy, a worldview that has severed human beings from their own wisdom and from kinship with all life for the past 10,000 years.

In Breaking Up with the Patriarchy, therapist Susan L. Herrmann names what you already sense. The suffering is real, and it is systemic. The relational framework Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa) calls the Kinship Worldview, and introduces in his foreword, offers a practical path home.

Drawing on three decades of clinical practice, personal storytelling, and the relational wisdom at the heart of Indigenous thought, Herrmann guides readers through a calm reckoning with inherited patterns of domination and separation. You'll learn to:

• Recognize the patriarchal conditioning you've absorbed without consent
• Understand mental and emotional struggle as a natural response to an unnatural system
• Rebuild trust in your body, your intuition, and your capacity for authentic community
• Relate to the Earth as living kin
• Practice Radical Surrender, acting from integrity while releasing attachment to outcome

This is an invitation to trust your inner wisdom, connect with others as sovereign beings, and meet what life brings with intelligence and heart.

One reader writes that this book "dismantles the lens you were using to see the world and offers something to replace it with, which is rarer than it sounds."

"A reflective and engaging read that offers insight without pressure and perspective without pretense." —Midwest Book Review

"Like having a wise elder at your side encouraging you to trust the inner wisdom that is a human heritage." —Darcia Narvaez, co-author of Restoring the Kinship Worldview

"A profound guide for those ready to dismantle inherited patterns of domination and reclaim the wisdom of interconnectedness." —David Levine, President, Kinship Intelligence Institute

"A practical guide to healing our fragmentation and returning to wholeness." —David Blake Willis, Professor of Anthropology and Education, Fielding Graduate University

A guide, a mirror, and a call to live in a way that feels more whole, more loving, and more free." —Marcus Manning, M.A., LPCC, Kind Waters Therapy

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Open Spiral
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1965101151
• ISBN 13: 9781965101155
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 162
• Éditeur: Fox Laura B.
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