Healing Racism Within

A Lightworker’s Guide

Brett Bevell

Paperback
978-1-948626-71-2
US $16.95 Bookshop Amazon
eBook available
October 2021

This Reiki-informed approach to healing racism within oneself and the world draws on the authors childhood experiences growing up in a racist community.

Lightworkers are people who feel an enormous pull towards helping others. Healing Racism Within is the first book to apply bodywork and energy-healing techniques to heal the suffering caused by racism. Easy-to-access exercises to aid with healing include journal writing, art therapy, Buddhist and shamanic meditations, and ancestral lineage rituals.

Reiki master Brett Bevell is the author of several books, including Psychic Reiki and Reiki for Spiritual Healing. He teaches regularly at premier holistic venues including the Omega Institute. In Healing Racism Within, Bevell shares insights that were essential to his personal transformation along with haunting stories from his childhood, including trauma, sexual abuse, and growing up within a racist community.

“Healing Racism Within is a smart and clear-eyed book, necessary for these times. Brett Bevell transforms his own negative childhood racial experiences into psychologically constructive exercises for us to heal the inner psycho-spiritual landscape of how systemic racism manifests, not only through unjust laws and policies, but in all levels of our being.” —Mike Dooley, New York Times bestselling author of Infinite Possibilities

“Many people who enjoy what is being called White Privilege are waking up to a world that is holding a mirror to those whose reflection is unflattering and increasingly untenable. The stages for addressing this discouraging news, even among the best of us, generally go something like this: obliviousness, denial, awareness, guilt, immobilization, effective action. Healing Racism Within is a potent guide for moving into effective action—first as an inside job and then as you make your imprint on the world.” —Donna Eden and David Feinstein, PhD, creators of the Eden Energy Medicine and Radiant Circuits methods and authors of Energy Medicine: Balancing Your Body’s Energies for Optimal Health, Joy, and Vitality and many other books

“From a deep place within his heart, Brett Bevell is supporting us in realizing that racism exists, not only though unjust laws and the dysfunctional systemic policies in our businesses, schools, and government, but also in our cells, our emotions, our brains and hearts, the ghosts of our ancestors, and the family systems we've inherited—and like other forms of disease, it can be addressed and healed if we look at it fiercely and honestly, and have the courage to act accordingly. Thank you, Brett, for this beautiful bag of tools we can use to dismantle race-based conditioning.” —Iyanla Vanzant, host of talk show Iyanla: Fix My Life and author of One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days and 40 Nights Toward Spiritual Strength and Personal Growth

“Brett Bevell always brings his whole self into his books—his history, his pain, his wisdom, his honesty, his bedrock belief in the possibility for all of us to transform our pain into purpose. As a white person, I appreciate how Brett challenges me—both with urgency and with compassion—to confront my white privilege; to own my collusion, through denial and silence, with our country's racist history. What makes this book different and exciting are the exercises that Brett includes ways of exploring and confronting and changing what lies deep within. This book is an important addition to the growing library of anti-racism books that are finally a part of American literature.” —Elizabeth Lesser, cofounder of Omega Institute and author of Cassandra Speaks and Broken Open

“We've been in discussions about race for decades but Healing Racism Within gives us concrete actions to rewire the unwanted thinking, language, and energy of internalized racism. Beginning with seeing white privilege as a form of white cowardice, Brett Bevell has asked himself the deepest questions that then also allow me to do the same when I actively follow his framework towards change. We all need this book.” —Diane Farr, actress and author of The Girl Code

“In this powerful and practical guide, Bevell takes the reader down the dark path of societal ills and illustrates how it is possible to heal from the trauma of witnessing a race-based murder of a child as a toddler, family incest, alcoholism, racism, and rape. He shares his personal struggle and provides practical healing exercises that will release the pain incurred over a lifetime.
       “The focus of this insightful book is about healing, not the guilt of wrongdoing or negative thoughts. Bevell provides numerous exercises based on Reiki's healing energy that can transform societal and generational pain into understanding and healing. The perfect book for twenty-first-century energy healing.” —Monique Chapman, intuitive consultant and host of Get Over It! podcast

“As I finished this superb book, I felt the shimmering and essential power of hope and possibility—which is one of the many gifts Brett Bevell brings to all of his work as a divine Energy Master. Healing Racism Within is an innovative map, guiding us through his personal experiences and offering potent, imaginative exercises to courageously address our wounds and taboos surrounding internalized racism, and in the process initiate and deepen individual and collective healing.” —Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, LCSW, author of The Final 8th: Enlist Your Inner Selves to Accomplish Your Goals