‘Loving Corrections’ Is a Handbook for Hard Conversations

It can be tempting to let yourself stew in some X beef you might be having with a random reply guy, or allow yourself to hold a grudge against a colleague who publicly disagreed with you in a meeting. But in adrienne maree brown’s latest book, Loving Corrections, the author provides an antidote to the shame-based discourse that social media has boosted. “I was able to hold moments of tension, moments that were really hard, with softness and with care, but also with some rigor,” she says of writing the book, which consists of essays, conversations, and spells. According to brown, we’d be better off if we tried to solve conflict by imagining ourselves holding someone’s hands while talking about the hard stuff instead of jumping to conclusions and firing off angry comments: “There’s a course correction that needs to be made, but I don’t need to destroy anyone in the process.”

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