Radical Healership

Therapist Laura Mae Northrup navigates the complexities of being a healer today-and shows how you can stay true to your calling in a world built from systems that were designed to extract, oppress, and exploit. Addressing fundamental tensions that arise for practicing healers working in a late-stage capitalist culture, Northrup shares how to: Maintain your ethical framework even while prioritizing financial growth Market and brand your practice authentically, without feeling like a shill Examine your "shadow why," by looking honestly at the baggage, unconscious biases, and unexamined motivations you unintentionally bring to work Resist burnout and honor your limits within a culture that valorizes overwork Connect to your emotional needs and spiritual goals-and honor their place in your healing practice. Structured in accessible, to-the-point chapters with practical writing and reflection prompts, Northrup offers an authentic, spiritually grounded approach to healership, going much deeper than the promise of a million-dollar practice or a minimum-effort game plan. Written for healers of all modalities-including radical therapists, functional practitioners, reiki workers, bodyworkers, and healers who have been sidelined, underfunded, underresearched, or delegitimized within a Western capitalist framework-this book offers a nuanced, political, and social-justice informed guide to building the practice you want-and thriving as the healer you were born to be.