But, shaken by the apparent futility of Western activism in the face of inertia and corruption, she began to question her choices, both material and emotional. Instead of seeking outward answers she went inwards, creaing an alternative to Eat, Pray, Love for the polycrisis. 'Inner prepping', or altering your private, interior world as a form of civil resistance, is an oblique way of coming at the classic feminist idea that the personal political. Grose takes us on an exhilarating, funny, erudite and ultimately uplifting tour of the practices she tried out, including ego-dismantling retreats, animal communication, and tantra, offering myriad ways to revolutionise ourselves and others.
