Sebene Selassie is a teacher and author who guides people to remember and trust the mystery and power of belonging. Born in Ethiopia and raised in Washington, D.C., she is trained as a meditation teacher, an integral coach, and practitioner of Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy (IFOT). We are not separate from each other, but we don’t always believe it and we certainly don’t always practice it. In Selassie’s debut work You Belong: A Call for Connection (HarperOne), she argues that accepting our belonging is the key to facing the many challenges currently impacting our world. Using ancient philosophy, multidisciplinary research, exquisite storytelling, and razor-sharp wit, she leads us in an exploration of all the ways we separate (and thus, suffer) and offers a map back to belonging. To belong, she says, is to experience joy in any moment: to feel pleasure, dance in public, accept death, forgive what seems unforgivable, and extend kindness to yourself and others. To belong is also to acknowledge injustice, reckon with history, and face our own shadows. Full of revelations and practical advice, You Belong makes a winning case for resisting the forces that demand separation and reclaiming the connection – and belonging – that have been ours all along.