“Love Letter to the Movement is a timely, generous, and prophetic offering in these times of burnout and rebirth, collective uncertainty and possibility, authoritarianism and leaderful movements, and systems disintegration and reimagining. It is part memoir, part decolonizing tool kit, part speculative fiction, part history lesson, part mystical transmission, part organizing playbook, part healing balm, and part liberation anthem woven into a loving prayer for Mama Earth and all past, present, and future sentient beings. In this transformative sacred text, master coaches and Love Warriors Sarah Jawaid and Damon Azali-Rojas reveal how liberatory coaching frees, blesses, and equips us to manifest the new worlds we long for. 

— nisha purushotham, life and leadership coach, cultural worker, and healing justice facilitator

“Love Letter to the Movement reflects a yearning by its authors to metabolize both the bitter and the beautiful in collective struggle, to hold these lessons, and to catalyze them into something new and profoundly useful for movement leaders. This book is an invitation for anyone who dreams of freedom to connect their own highest personal good to the highest good of the planet. Reckoning with the realities of structural oppression, Love Letter does more than describe its alternatives. It demonstrates how to connect with oneself and others to make change and shift perspectives. This is essential reading for those who want to invite compassion, somatic arts, knowledge of interconnected struggle, and the healing justice of liberation into their lives, organizations, and ways of being in the world.”

—Gaye Theresa Johnson, associate professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and associate director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA 

“This book is so much more than a manual to build coaching skills. It is a reflection of Damon and Sarah's deep commitment to justice and healing for folks whose identities have historically been marginalized in society. It is full of stories that reveal who they are as individuals and how their lived experiences led them to coaching as a tool for healing and liberation. They offer the wisdom they've gained along the way, encouraging us to also show up in the world as our full authentic selves, unapologetically harnessing our inner knowing as well as the power of our ancestors and spiritual beliefs to build an inclusive and just world. It truly is an embodiment of their love and a gift to the movement and to each of us."

— Arianna Cisneros, life and wellness coach and social impact advisor

“This book is an intervention for the movement that presents move by move what is required for us to be in right relationship with one another and all beings. It activates curiosity and demands us to be present with what is in order to foster what is needed. Sarah and Damon put forward a bold, guided by spirit, proposal of the collective healing the movement needs right now in order for us to achieve liberation. This book, this love letter, is an invitation to dream, play, and practice being free.” 

—Adlemy Garcia, abolitionist and community organizer 

“each chapter of this book is like it's own mini-revolution. it felt like a conversation with sarah, damon, their ancestors, my ancestors, their descendants, my descendants, their elders, my elders, etc etc etc.” 

— lawrence barriner ii, coach, facilitator, and ancestor-in-training