{"product_id":"how-we-show-up-reclaiming-family-friendship-and-community-9781580058070","title":"How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn Invitation to Community and Models for Connection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAfter almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes. They have family, friends, and colleagues, yet they still feel like they're standing alone. They're \"winning\" at the American Dream, but they're lonely, disconnected, and unsatisfied.\u003cbr\u003eIt seems counterintuitive that living the \"good life\"--the well-paying job, the nuclear family, the upward mobility--can make us feel isolated and unhappy. But in a divided America, where only a quarter of us know our neighbors and everyone is either a winner or a loser, we've forgotten the key element that helped us make progress in the first place: community. In this provocative, groundbreaking work, Mia Birdsong shows that what separates us isn't only the ever-present injustices built around race, class, gender, values, and beliefs, but also our denial of our interdependence and need for belonging. In response to the fear and discomfort we feel, we've built walls, and instead of leaning on each other, we find ourselves leaning on concrete.\u003cbr\u003eThrough research, interviews, and stories of lived experience, \u003ci\u003eHow We Show Up\u003c\/i\u003e returns us to our inherent connectedness where we find strength, safety, and support in vulnerability and generosity, in asking for help, and in being accountable. Showing up--literally and figuratively--points us toward the promise of our collective vitality and leads us to the liberated well-being we all want.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMia Birdsong\u003c\/b\u003e is an activist, facilitator, and storyteller. A Senior Fellow of the Economic Security Project, she was also an inaugural Ascend Fellow of The Aspen Institute and New American California Fellow. She was founding Co-Director of Family Story and Vice President of the Family Independence Initiative, Mia speaks widely at conferences and gatherings across the country. She lives with her loved ones on the occupied land of the Chochenyo Ohlone people (AKA Oakland, CA). Read more about her work at miabirdsong.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hachette Go","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50583460446482,"sku":"9781580058070","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_795ec5c2-8c57-4cb1-9fa5-0d53888df34b.jpg?v=1732028933","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-we-show-up-reclaiming-family-friendship-and-community-9781580058070","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}