Life can be hard. Having a path to heal can help. In her new book, What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World, Prentis Hemphill offers insights on how to achieve it, individually and collectively. “The state of the world impacts our own lives and the lives of our community,” the public speaker and therapist tells EBONY. “We need to be involved in community work. It helps us grow and shift what caused us harm.”

Sharing stories from their own life, Hemphill lays out a path to solve our biggest issue. “We tend to believe that conflict indicates some failure or that it’s a threat against us that we must defeat. If we can approach conflict with maturity, we realize it’s often what’s required to get our relationships to the next level.”

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