Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair - Softcover

Giovale, Hilary

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798987663172

Publisher: Green Writers Press, 2024

Synopsis

A transformative journey for white settlers seeking truth, healing, and repair.

Becoming a Good Relative weaves Hilary Giovale’s personal story of transformation with historical research, spiritual teachings, and practical tools. Giovale offers warm, compassionate, and vulnerable personal stories to reveal how unlearning fragility, becoming antiracist, and repairing ancestral harm can feel. She invites readers beyond intellectual analysis into intuition, dreams, and practical rituals.

This memoir is for white people curious about moving beyond white fragility and into robust healing. Discover inspiration to direct more funding to communities of Color. Learn how to build resilience and commit to reparations for the long term. Explore how to:

• Heal from the wounds of colonialism
• Embrace Indigenous wisdom
• Practice interpersonal philanthropy

About this title

About the Author

Hilary Giovale is a mother, writer and community organizer. A ninth-generation American settler, she is descended from Celtic, Germanic, Nordic, and Indigenous peoples of Ancient Europe. An active reparationist, her work is guided by relationships, love, and intuition. She divests from whiteness and bridges divides with truth, healing, apology, and forgiveness. Hilary seeks to follow Indigenous and Black leadership in support of human rights, environmental justice, and equitable futures.

Edition details

• Publisher: Green Writers Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798987663172
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360