Joyous Resilience

**An intersectional guide to building resilience and reclaiming joy.**Building resilience is usually seen as a solo pursuit: face your history, accept your insecurities, and conquer your fears to awaken your best life. As individuals, we each experience negative pressures and stressors--but viewing their effects through an individualistic lens obscures the fact that resilience is a community effort, and that inner resilience powers wide-scale transformation.Oppression, stress, and trauma disproportionately affect members of marginalized communities, like people of color, women, religious minorities, and LGBTQ+ populations. But the self-help remedies offered up by mainstream wellness culture don't quite make space for the ways in which race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and environment intersect to prevent resilience-building--and they don't address the systemic and structural issues that produce trauma and oppression in the first place. The way we frame...