Hey hey -

I’m just emerging from the 2023 Detox Challenge and feeling fired up! 🔥🔥 600 people from around the globe joined us for five days of shared practice and embodied inquiry as we continue the work of American Detox.

Since the book’s release, I’ve traveled around the country joining local book clubs and organizing groups to explore the question “what’s in the way of our collective wellbeing and how can we truly heal?” and here’s what we've learned along the way: 

1. Healing is not a one-size-fits-all. Despite what “they” tell you, the process of healing is unique to you. Trust yourself and move at your own speed. 
2. We’ve all got skin in the game. We are all entangled in these toxic systems though in different and disproportionate ways; which means that our roles and responsibilities are different and necessary. 
3. We can be critical and compassionate at the same time. This is not an either/or, it is a both/and. We need to bring a critical and curious approach to questions about how we were shaped and a compassionate hand to our healing. 
4. There is no destination. There is only movement. The idea that we will someday transcend this state is a myth. There is only the everyday practice of returning to wholeness and moving towards freedom. 
5. We must practice in real time the future world we want to see. We must be prefigurative in how we practice being the change we wish to see in the world. 
6. We are not alone in our heartbreak, and we are not alone in our hope. We heal together. And when we realize that our liberation and wellbeing are bound we can work together to build the future that we all deserve.

To be honest , I have struggled with isolation, judgment and shame in my own practice of detox and recovery. 

The tendency to pull away and small down when I come face to face with my own limiting patterns and stories. But bringing American Detox to life in community has taught me that the practice of unlearning is powerful and possible in mutual support. 

So for the rest of 2023, we’re coming together in practice and possibility.

A Year of Unlearning is not a training; it is a community of practice designed to move us through the inquiry of detox and recovery in mutual support and creativity. Using the American Detox book as a guide, we will explore how we’ve been shaped by toxic ideologies (ie: perfectionism, whiteness, scarcity) and what it’s going to take to heal our cultural wounds and transform into new ways of being and possibility. 

Each month, you’ll receive the following: 

• Recovery toolkit  
• Live community calls 
• Bonus programming….

📖🌍 Part book club, part community of practice we will transform old patterns into new possibilities…together. 

Our first call is February 21st!

Have any questions about this emerging community? Simply reply to this message or send an email to [email protected]. 

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