The Mixed + Multiracial Guide to Wellbeing - by Namalee Bolle (Paperback)

About the Book

Informed by expertise from both sides of the therapist's couch, this book shows you how to handle microaggressions, confront systemic issues, and control your own story as a mixed + multiracial person. It explores ways to recognise how your identity has shaped your life, handle common challenges, and resist othering and erasure.

Book Synopsis

"What aaaaarrrrrrrrrreeeeeee you?!"

If you just had that familiar sinking feeling, this book is for you. Do you point out how alienating and othering that question is? Stand your ground and explain that you don't have to justify your existence with a pie chart and a family tree? Or keep the peace, bite your tongue and smile politely at yet another person treating you like a science project?

While each mixed person's experience is different, there are common threads from living in a monoracial world that weave their way into your life. This book explores ways for mixed and multiracial people to recognise how their identity has shaped their life, handle common challenges, and resist othering and erasure.

Informed by experience and expertise from both sides of the therapist's couch, the Mixed + Multiracial Guide to Wellbeing shows you how to handle microaggressions, confront systemic issues, and control your own story.

Review Quotes

I didn't realise how much I needed this until now. I only wish I had grown up with a book like this. This is a truly invaluable and deeply affirming resource.

After a lifetime of struggling to articulate what Bolle puts into words so clearly, I can say with absolute certainty that 'The Mixed + Multiracial Guide to Wellbeing' is a resounding success. It is not only an invaluable source of timely information, but also a deeply needed healing resource for our mixed and diasporic communities, and for anyone navigating the complex and layered experience of being multiracial.

--Toulip Wonder, artist + PHD researcher

Brillant and so relevant! Reading this book struck so many chords with me - as an older mixed man co-parenting a 9 year old with a white woman. It made me appreciate that when parents from different races come together, they rarely give much thought to the [multiracial] wellbeing of the children they will produce.--David Akinsanya, Broadcaster + NHS wellbeing trainer

Namalee Bolle successfully brings her readers into an impressive gathering of voices that give depth and breadth to the mixed and multiracial experience. This book invites us all to bring a deeper understanding to our own identities, and the ways we find belonging and meaning in the world.--Marcia Bonato Warren MA MA LPC, author of Movement and Identity: Multiculturalism, Somatic Awareness, and Embodied Code-Switching(R)

About the Author

Namalee Bolle is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, transpersonal transcultural integrative psychotherapist and award winning writer. She is British born of Sri-Lankan and Dutch-Jewish heritage and her work explores themes of multicultural identity, intergenerational trauma and post-traumatic thriving.
With a background as a fashion editor and magazine co-founder Namalee was featured in Pioneers: A Renaissance in South Asian Creativity at the British Maritime Museum. Her work has been published in The Guardian, I-D, Dazed, The London Evening Standard, Vogue and ShowSTUDIO.