Tirzah Firestone

Wounds into Wisdom (eBook, ePUB)

Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

2020 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD: GOLD IN PSYCHOLOGY
FOREWORD REVIEWS 2019 BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS FINALIST IN BOTH THE RELIGION AND SELF-HELP CATEGORIES

Our past does not simply disappear. The painful history of our ancestors and their rich cultural wisdom intertwine within us to create the patterns of our future. Even when past trauma remains unspoken or has long been forgotten, it becomes part of us and our children-a legacy of both strength and woundedness that shapes our lives.

In this book, Tirzah Firestone brings to life the profound impact of protracted historical trauma through the compelling narratives of Israeli terror victims, Holocaust survivors, and those whose lives were marred by racial persecution and displacement. The tragic story of Firestone's own family lays the groundwork for these revealing testimonies of recovery, forgiveness, and moral leadership. Throughout, Firestone interweaves their voices with neuroscientific and psychological findings, as well as relevant and inspiring Jewish teachings.

Seven principles emerge from these wise narratives-powerful prescriptive tools that speak to anyone dealing with the effects of past injury. At the broadest level, these principles are directives for staying morally awake in a world rife with terror.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Monkfish Book Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781948626033
• Artikelnr.: 55120119

Autorenporträt

Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Ph.D., is an author, Jungian psychotherapist, and founding rabbi of Congregation Nevei Kodesh in Boulder, Colorado.

Raised in a large Orthodox family as the younger sister of the late, groundbreaking radical feminist Shulamith Firestone (author of The Dialectic of Sex), Firestone's spiritual curiosity called her to search beyond the confines of her family's strict Jewish upbringing. Leaving home, she embarked upon a life-changing spiritual odyssey that she chronicled in With Roots in Heaven: One Woman's Passionate Journey into the Heart of Her Faith. After immersing herself in a wide variety of spiritual practices and worldviews, Firestone returned with fresh vigor to become a rabbi in a pluralistic and egalitarian Judaism.

Now Rabbi Emerita, Firestone's research on the transformation of collective trauma draws on the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and Jewish literature. Through interviews, case studies, and autobiographical stories, she demonstrates how trauma residue passes from generation to generation and how it can be transformed.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Part I
Introduction: New Light on a Dark History
Chapter One: The Price of Silence
Chapter Two: Trauma Mind and Body: The Paradox of Survival
Chapter Three: The Importance of Being Witnessed
Chapter Four: Awakenings
Chapter Five: The Terrible Gift
Part II
Introduction
Principle One: Facing the Loss
Principle Two: Harnessing the Power of Pain
Principle Three: Finding New Community
Principle Four: Resisting the Call to Fear, Blame, Dehumanize
Principle Five: Disidentifying from Victimhood
Principle Six: Redefining Chosenness
Principle Seven: Taking Action