By Julia Yarbough — 2021
The pandemic was rough for Black and Latina families, but many women in these communities met the challenges head on.
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For many of us, men with broad shoulders, narrow hips, taut muscles, and white skin — sun-kissed or pale under hot lights — became an ideal we couldn’t escape. We coveted images of these bodies like treasure, and they educated us in the rules of attraction.
Impostor syndrome is not a unique feeling, but some researchers believe it hits minority groups harder.
The time of COVID-19 and racial justice protests has been stressful, but it has also spurred BIPOC clinicians to find new ways of helping their communities and clients cope, heal, and thrive.
What better way to use Black History Month than as practice for creating a world that demands displays of Black joy and pleasure year-round?
Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.
Above all else, you will begin to love the person you see in the mirror every day. The false perception of victimhood will fall away, and the victorious nature of life and living will become your new way of operating in the world.
Many Black womxn experience themselves as fraudulent or substandard. It's a lie.
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Many equate self-discipline with living a good, moral life, which ends up creating a lot of shame when we fail. There’s a better way to build lasting, solid self-discipline in your life.