Monsters in Love challenges the idea that conflict between partners is unhealthy or something to avoid. Instead, it encourages both people to stand by what they need and who they are - but to do so with compassion rather than competitiveness or vengefulness.

Resmaa Menakem is a healer, a bestselling author, therapist and a licensed clinical social worker who is best known as the author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.