May 18, 2022
As time passes, the initial coronavirus lockdown sinks further and further into the past. It’s tempting to try to forget about it and start fresh.
But we all have individual and collective traumas to continue processing as well as things we’ve learned about ourselves that we can integrate into our new lives moving...
Apr 28, 2021
Mark Sanders is someone whose work and contribution to the mental health field I have admired from afar for many, many, many years.
Mark is an international speaker, trainer and consultant in the behavioral health field. He's authored five books and has been a champion in the addiction field, speaking out...
Apr 21, 2021
Black fatigue.
Particularly for Black women.
When I ran across the book, Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit, by Mary-Frances Winters, I had already gone through various renditions of COVID, the racism that has always been there...
I was really, really, really tired, not so much in a sleepy...
Apr 7, 2021
Lavelle Smith Hall is on a mission to save, transform, and to be able to create a space for 1 billion moms on this planet.
Her organization, which is really more like a full, living, fluid organism is called MOMLogics and it's a safe space for redefining Black motherhood. The process begins by first taking care of...
Mar 31, 2021
We're talking trauma, embodiment, attachment theory -- how we become separated from ourselves and others and how to reintegrate safely.
Three years ago, I went to this workshop in a suburb outside of Chicago. And I already knew what the deal was going to be. I was going to be, probably, the only Black person there, or...