Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home Turner Toko-PaPaperback

2017 Nautilus Award Gold WinnerFeel like you don't belong? Whether we feel unworthy, alienated, or anxious about our place in the world -- the absence of belonging is the great silent wound of our times.Most people think of belonging as a mythical place, and they spend a lifetime searching for it in vain. You're not alone.The world has never been more connected, yet people are lonelier than ever.

What if it's a skill that has been lost or forgotten?With her signature depth and eloquence, Toko-pa maps a path to Belonging from the inside out. But what if belonging isn't a place at all? Drawing on myth, stories and dreams, she takes us into the origins of our estrangement, reframing exile as a necessary initiation into authenticity.

Then she shares the competencies of belonging: a set of ancestral practices to heal our