Reclaim Your Power!: A 30-Day Guide to Hope, Healing, and Inspiration for Men of Color - Softcover

Dean, Terrance

 
9780812967784: Reclaim Your Power!: A 30-Day Guide to Hope, Healing, and Inspiration for Men of Color
Softcover
ISBN 10: 081296778X ISBN 13: 9780812967784
Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 2003

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A community philanthropist empowers men of color to discover their own source of healing, hope, and inspiration.
 
“In a time when many men of color are experiencing a sense of isolation and aloneness, it is exciting to know that they realize they do have power!”—Iyanla Vazant, author, and founder of Inner Visions Institute for Spiritual Development
 
Reclaim Your Power! A 30-Day Guide to Hope, Healing, and Inspiration for Men of Color is a compact but powerful book in which Terrance Dean provides men of color with meaningful, spiritual meditations that can be practiced anywhere at any time. Quotations and exercises further build upon the daily lessons in the book. Among them: Listen; Be Still; Can’t No One Stop You but You; Faith; Have Integrity; and Move, Mountain, Get out of My Way!
 
“It’s no accident that you have this book in your hands,” writes Dean in his Introduction. “You or someone you know has thought enough about you to get you started or help you remember your connection to Spirit. Know that everything is divinely created and that you are meant to be here, right now, at this time, to become aware of your greatness. I encourage you to read this book and be open to its message.”
 
One cannot help but feel empowered after reading this book!

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Literary soul writer Terrance Dean is a motivational speaker and the creator and founder of Men’s Empowerment, Inc., an organization dedicated to empowering, encouraging, and enriching the lives of men of color. He lives in New York City. To find out more about both Dean and Reclaim Your Power!, including book events and news, visit www.terrancedean.com.

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Reclaim Your Power! A 30-Day Guide to Hope, Healing, and Inspiration for Men of Color is a compact but powerful book in which community philanthropist Terrance Dean provides men of color with meaningful, spiritual meditations that can be practiced anywhere at any time. Quotations and exercises further build upon the daily lessons in the book. Among them: Listen; Be Still; Can't No One Stop You but You; Faith; Have Integrity; and Move, Mountain, Get out of My Way!
"It's no accident that you have this book in your hands," writes Dean in his Introduction. "You or someone you know has thought enough about you to get you started or help you remember your connection to Spirit. Know that everything is divinely created and that you are meant to be here, right now, at this time, to become aware of your greatness. I encourage you to read this book and be open to its message."
Reclaim Your Power! is designed to help men discover their own source of healing, hope, and inspiration--one cannot help but feel empowered after reading this book!

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m Your Power! A 30-Day Guide to Hope, Healing, and Inspiration for Men of Color is a compact but powerful book in which community philanthropist Terrance Dean provides men of color with meaningful, spiritual meditations that can be practiced anywhere at any time. Quotations and exercises further build upon the daily lessons in the book. Among them: Listen; Be Still; Can t No One Stop You but You; Faith; Have Integrity; and Move, Mountain, Get out of My Way!

It s no accident that you have this book in your hands, writes Dean in his Introduction. You or someone you know has thought enough about you to get you started or help you remember your connection to Spirit. Know that everything is divinely created and that you are meant to be here, right now, at this time, to become aware of your greatness. I encourage you to read this book and be open to its message.

Reclaim Your Power! is designed to help men discover their

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INTRODUCTION

I remember walking to work at MTV Networks from the train station. I heard a big booming voice asking, “What are you doing?”

It startled me at first because I had heard the voice before. Spirit was speaking, and it was serious because it was a booming voice, not subtle as I had perceived it before. I replied to Spirit, “What do you mean, what am I doing?” At this point, tears started to flood my eyes. I knew I had been running from what Spirit was guiding me to do. That was in the year 2000.

I am used to the voice of Spirit because I had been hearing it since I was a child. I remember Spirit speaking to me when my aunt took me to church every Sunday. It was there that I had found my solitude and time to talk directly with God about what was happening and going on in my life. I had learned how to be still, to listen and be obedient to the voice of Spirit.

I went away to college in Nashville, because I wanted to get away from my family. I wanted to escape my past of pain, hurt, anger, and bitterness. After graduation from college, I just ran, ran, and ran. I got so far from home that I had little to no contact with anyone from my family. I did this on purpose because I was angry with my family—I literally despised my mother.

My mother was a heroin addict. She used drugs heavily. Everyone in the family knew of her addiction, yet no one stepped in to help her seek professional help. We just learned to deal with it. My mother’s heavy drug use resulted in her becoming a prostitute to support her drug habit.

Imagine being a young boy growing up seeing your mother being dropped off by various men in different cars. Imagine watching your mother going into the bathroom and not coming out for two or three hours, obviously high on some drug. Imagine being in a car with your friends and driving out of the way to avoid certain neighborhoods and streets because you were afraid they would see your mother on the corner picking up “johns” for a trick.

I was so upset and angry that I was not born to what I considered a “normal” family. I was bitter because all my friends appeared to have normal families, with mothers who took them to the park, took them out to dinner, or attended their high school or college graduations.

I went to college because I swore I would not let my life end up like so many others I had known. I definitely did not want to end up like my mother. I fought like hell to buck the system to work in my favor. I worked hard in school and, just when I thought all was well, I got the call that my mother was sick. She had developed the AIDS virus from sharing drug needles.

When I got this call, I was shocked and startled. It had such a grip on me. I knew I was going to lose my mother. As it was close to Christmas break from school, I decided to go home immediately once the break started.

I went home and spent many days with my mother. We talked so much that it was actually refreshing to let my guard of anger and bitterness down. As the trip came to an end, I packed my bags and began preparations for my return to school.

As I was leaving and walking out the door, my mother called to me. I stopped at the door, turned to hear her voice and, for the first time in my life, my mother gently said, “I love you.” I replied back, “I love you, too,” and walked out the door, crying uncontrollably. I knew it would be the last time I would see her alive.

I was able to return to school and graduate because I knew that was what my mother would have wanted. After graduation I got an internship with CNN in Washington, D.C.; I did not want to return home to Detroit because I was still angry with my family for not helping my mother and constantly shuffling my sister and brothers, who were younger, from family to family.

As I continued to run from my family to avoid my pain and hurt, I got yet another call. My two younger brothers had also developed the AIDS virus, which eventually would claim their lives as well. My youngest brother, Jevonte, who had been infected with the disease while still in my mother’s womb, died two years after my mother’s death. He was three years old. My other brother, George, who was infected while he was molested in a group home for young boys, was nineteen years old when he died.

My life seemed to have turned upside down. I couldn’t deal with any more death and pain, so I continued to delve into work and traveled as frequently as possible. I had to keep moving and doing something to keep my mind active, so I wouldn’t think of what was happening in my family.

Then, in the year 2000, I heard the voice of Spirit, asking if I was ready to stop running and start healing. Spirit said, “I have work for you to do, and you need some healing.”

I had no other choice but to be obedient to Spirit. For the first time, I sat alone and cried. I cried for all the pain I had endured. I cried for all the years I had lost with my family. I cried because I had lost my mother and two brothers. I cried because I was tired of running, and I needed rest.

Spirit immediately went to work, and I began the healing. I began my spiritual work with mentors and healers, who literally showed up when I surrendered and helped me access my power and rebuild my spiritual muscle. I needed to be strong for the work I was about to embark upon.

I am glad I was able to surrender and let love move in. I am glad I was able to forgive everyone around me. Even more important, I’m glad I was able to forgive myself.

Once Spirit started working, I created the organization Men’s Empowerment, Inc. I knew there were other men dealing with situations and conditions similar to my own. I wanted to create a place where men could come and share their pains, joys, and difficulties, a place where they could tell their stories.

In creating Men’s Empowerment, I had no idea it would grow as rapidly as it did. Within four years, the organization has grown from 20 to more than 250 men of color, all of whom responded in the affirmative that they were looking for an outlet to express their emotions and a place where they could go for healing. It is a great feeling to walk into a room with brothers from various backgrounds coming together for one common cause: to nurture their spirits for healing.

The product of my surrendering and healing is this book, which I share with other men who are seeking to surrender and heal their lives. I have learned so much that I know it is time to share with my fellow brothers. It’s now time that we let one another know it’s okay to cry and let down our guards. It’s okay to feel pain and surrender to love when it shows up. It’s okay to talk with another brother about what’s going on in your life. We need this dialogue more than ever in our lives.

In creating this book, I wanted to share with other men of color the joys, pains, frustrations, and love I have had the opportunity to be a part of. I have found that our sisters, mothers, aunts, and mates have created their own support systems and foundations to help nurture one another in spirit. They have created so many outlets to sustain their inner selves that it is only a natural progression for men to get it and catch up.

More of us are starting and creating our own support systems and groups. Even if we have only one buddy to share with, we are creating a space for ourselves to share and open up, to allow Spirit room to move and grow. As men, we generally don’t allow others to witness or experience this space within us.

This book was inspired by all the men with whom I have had the opportunity to share experiences both joyful and painful, experiences that have led me to...

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Verlag
Random House Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
081296778X
ISBN 13 
9780812967784
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
144
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