Past the Pain: How to Emerge from Trauma with Purpose
Forty minutes on February 21, 2019, changed Anjanette Young’s life forever.
Anjanette Young’s story made national news for months after it broke: A forty-eight-year-old social worker was winding down at home after a long day of work when police broke into her apartment with a faulty warrant and incorrect information. With guns drawn and flashlights shining, twelve cops converged in her home, demanding that Anjanette put her hands up, despite the fact that she was in the middle of changing her clothes. Naked and afraid, she watched as men in tactical gear ransacked her home.
The trauma from that night was devastating, but somehow Young emerged a different person and one with a realized purpose—to serve as voice for the voiceless, particularly those facing injustices by the very people meant to protect them.
In Past the Pain, Young tells her story—of what happened that night, what came next, and most important, how others who experience trauma can draw on these lessons to move forward in their own stories. Young details how, through the support of her church, her community, and a reconnection with her legacy as the granddaughter of a civil rights activist who marched with Dr. King, she realizes that God was truly with her, and she forges her way forward.
As a social worker and activist, Young shares practical insight for others to push past their trauma to find purpose and avoid burnout; engage in self-care; and protect emotional and physical energy when working in social justice and advocacy support.
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Anjanette Young’s story made national news for months after it broke: A forty-eight-year-old social worker was winding down at home after a long day of work when police broke into her apartment with a faulty warrant and incorrect information. With guns drawn and flashlights shining, twelve cops converged in her home, demanding that Anjanette put her hands up, despite the fact that she was in the middle of changing her clothes. Naked and afraid, she watched as men in tactical gear ransacked her home.
The trauma from that night was devastating, but somehow Young emerged a different person and one with a realized purpose—to serve as voice for the voiceless, particularly those facing injustices by the very people meant to protect them.
In Past the Pain, Young tells her story—of what happened that night, what came next, and most important, how others who experience trauma can draw on these lessons to move forward in their own stories. Young details how, through the support of her church, her community, and a reconnection with her legacy as the granddaughter of a civil rights activist who marched with Dr. King, she realizes that God was truly with her, and she forges her way forward.
As a social worker and activist, Young shares practical insight for others to push past their trauma to find purpose and avoid burnout; engage in self-care; and protect emotional and physical energy when working in social justice and advocacy support.
Past the Pain: How to Emerge from Trauma with Purpose
Forty minutes on February 21, 2019, changed Anjanette Young’s life forever.
Anjanette Young’s story made national news for months after it broke: A forty-eight-year-old social worker was winding down at home after a long day of work when police broke into her apartment with a faulty warrant and incorrect information. With guns drawn and flashlights shining, twelve cops converged in her home, demanding that Anjanette put her hands up, despite the fact that she was in the middle of changing her clothes. Naked and afraid, she watched as men in tactical gear ransacked her home.
The trauma from that night was devastating, but somehow Young emerged a different person and one with a realized purpose—to serve as voice for the voiceless, particularly those facing injustices by the very people meant to protect them.
In Past the Pain, Young tells her story—of what happened that night, what came next, and most important, how others who experience trauma can draw on these lessons to move forward in their own stories. Young details how, through the support of her church, her community, and a reconnection with her legacy as the granddaughter of a civil rights activist who marched with Dr. King, she realizes that God was truly with her, and she forges her way forward.
As a social worker and activist, Young shares practical insight for others to push past their trauma to find purpose and avoid burnout; engage in self-care; and protect emotional and physical energy when working in social justice and advocacy support.
Anjanette Young’s story made national news for months after it broke: A forty-eight-year-old social worker was winding down at home after a long day of work when police broke into her apartment with a faulty warrant and incorrect information. With guns drawn and flashlights shining, twelve cops converged in her home, demanding that Anjanette put her hands up, despite the fact that she was in the middle of changing her clothes. Naked and afraid, she watched as men in tactical gear ransacked her home.
The trauma from that night was devastating, but somehow Young emerged a different person and one with a realized purpose—to serve as voice for the voiceless, particularly those facing injustices by the very people meant to protect them.
In Past the Pain, Young tells her story—of what happened that night, what came next, and most important, how others who experience trauma can draw on these lessons to move forward in their own stories. Young details how, through the support of her church, her community, and a reconnection with her legacy as the granddaughter of a civil rights activist who marched with Dr. King, she realizes that God was truly with her, and she forges her way forward.
As a social worker and activist, Young shares practical insight for others to push past their trauma to find purpose and avoid burnout; engage in self-care; and protect emotional and physical energy when working in social justice and advocacy support.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780897337595 |
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| Publisher: | Chicago Review Press, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 02/03/2026 |
| Pages: | 176 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) |
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