Rachel Griffiths Books

Nominee for the 2021 NAACP Image Award in Poetry An elegiac and moving meditation on the ways in which we witness "bodies" of grief and healing. Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both before and after life-altering loss. In radiant poems—set against the evocative and desperate backdrop of contemporary events, pop culture, and politics—Rachel Eliza Griffiths reckons with her mother’s death, aging, authority, art, black womanhood, memory, and the American imagination. The poems take shape in the space where public and private mourning converge, finding there magic and music alongside brutality and trauma. Griffiths braids a moving narrative of identity and its possibilities for rebirth through image and through loss. A photographer as well as a poet, Griffiths accompanies the fierce rhythm of her verses with a series of ghostly, imaginative self-portraits, blurring the body’s internal wilderness with landscapes alive with beauty and terror. The collision of text and imagery offers an associative autobiography, in which narratives of language, absence, and presence are at once saved, revised, and often erased. Seeing the Body dismantles personal and public masks of silence and self-destruction to visualize and celebrate the imperfect freedom of radical self-love.

This guide offers a practical, step-by-step approach to the fundamentals of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), now enhanced with new insights on its challenges and limitations. It explores the distinctions between formal and informal CBT, emphasizes the importance of the therapeutic relationship, and provides in-depth discussions on specific formulations. Additionally, it addresses compassionate interventions for managing negative thoughts, making it a comprehensive resource for both practitioners and learners in the field of mental health.

Two Black sisters in small-town New England navigate the challenges of adolescence amid the Civil Rights Movement in this "magical, magnificent novel" (Marlon James). In Salt Point, a town where many fear the outside world, something is shifting by the end of summer 1957. The Kindred sisters, Ezra and Cinthy, are surrounded by love—from their supportive parents, their neighbors the Junketts, and their beautiful coastal hometown. However, as they mature, their white neighbors, including Ezra's best friend Ruby, begin to view them differently. With the national call for freedom and justice for Black Americans intensifying, the sisters face escalating prejudice and fear from the villagers, who see them as threats to their way of life. As violence and tension rise, Ezra and Cinthy must draw on the deep wells of love they have cultivated to perform acts of heroism and grace in their struggle for survival. Through luminous, richly descriptive writing, the story celebrates one family's resistance, ultimately breaking and then rebuilding the heart with themes of courage, hope, and love.