Journal of Radical Permission: A Daily Guide for Following Your Soul's Calling

by Adrienne Maree Brown, Sonya Renee Taylor

Discover the unforgettable and transformational experience of journaling your way into your most authentic self.

This journal will help you claim permission to live your purpose. Based on the bestselling philosophies of radical self-love, emergent strategy, and pleasure activism, this journal gives you permission to love yourself deeply as you are.

Journaling to these prompts will help you surrender to your body’s needs instead of forcing yourself into cramped disciplines. It will encourage you to become awed by the natural beauty of your divine self instead of being rampantly self-critical. It will aid you in embracing your shadows and accepting responsibility for your impact all while liberating you to just be.

This structured journal, from the cohost of the Emergent Strategy podcast and the New York Times–bestselling author of The Body is Not an Apology, provides six key practices, with prompts for each practice that center on curiosity, surrender, grace, and satisfaction.

Genres: Nonfiction, Mental Health, Self Help, Personal Development

201 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 2, 2022

About the author

adrienne maree brown is the author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit.

Reviews

[Fran Groesbeck · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful journey

I'm so grateful to the authors of this journal. What an amazing beautiful and challenging journey they take you on. I took my time because some questions even just those few words on the page really challenged me. The results are powerful and The whole concept of permission has new meaning to me. So grateful!

[Megan Odgers · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked reading about the different practices, but I wasn’t drawn to a majority of the questions/prompts. For certain practices (ex: Loving Your Shadows), I feel like you would have needed to do a lot of self-discovery and shadow work previously to benefit more from the questions.

Maybe if I was more in tune already to who I am and what my desires are, I would have been more drawn to do all the practices.

If there was a journal to getting to know yourself more on a spiritual level, and explained the terminology and practices more in general, I think this journal would have made a good follow up.

[Amelia]

Transformational!

[Karen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Live the author, but found these series of questions to be uninspiring

[Kaya Perry · Rating 5 out of 5]

this collection of prompts changed my life. it’s been so transformative. thank you<3

[Sylvie M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've always enjoyed a good prompted journal. This one challenged me. I loved it!

[Amari · Rating 2 out of 5]

Started of good, but went downhill from there. The use of words like "divinity" and "surrender" in almost every question was getting on my nerves. The questions weren't clear and/or lacking context.

[A. J · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just had a difficult time understanding this book.

[HoneyBakedAmbs · Rating 5 out of 5]

A valuable and heartfelt self-guided exploration to how to learn how to radically love yourself. A+