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How to Go Through Life with Love in Your Heart

By Eve Ekman — 2020

A Q&A with Tara Brach about offering radical compassion to yourself and others.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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Caring for Yourself so You Can Care for the Planet

It can be easy to dismiss the importance of caring for ourselves amid pressing threats to people and planet, but prioritising self-care is actually an investment in your activism.

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How Can Activism Be Self-Care?

I learned very early that to survive in this broken world there is a never-ending need to “support, nurture, and protect what we hold dear” to keep it from being damaged, hurt, or destroyed ……which also includes myself.

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Awakening in the Body

Being mindful of the body is a profound—though often overlooked—opportunity to deepen our meditation and develop our insight, says Phillip Moffitt. Meditating on the body, we discover all four of the Buddha’s noble truths.

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The Extra Stigma of Mental Illness for African-Americans

Our culture has taught us that we do not have the privilege of being vulnerable like other communities.

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Wellness ‘For the Culture’

“I still eat rice and beans. I just use brown rice now,” said Annya Santana of Menos Mas, a wellness company that speaks to African-American and Latinx communities.

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Have We Been Doing Self-Care All Wrong?

To understand how the term “self-care” has evolved, I dug into the history of the phrase. The term has origins in medical research, but its leap from academia to public awareness can be traced back to the Black Panther Party and Black feminist writers.

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How ‘Instagram Therapy’ Helps Normalize Latinx Mental Healthcare

The Latinx community is just as vulnerable to mental illness as the general population, but faces disparities in treatment.

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I Was Taught that Therapy Was “Para Locos”—But the Pandemic Pushed Me to See It Differently

Eso es para locos. Esta generación... siempre inventando. These are the words I’d hear anytime I mentioned therapy or mental health growing up.

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How Black and Latina Women Prioritized Self-Care During the Pandemic

The pandemic was rough for Black and Latina families, but many women in these communities met the challenges head on.

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8 Tips for Talking About Mental Health with Your Asian Family

“When I started my undergraduate degree in psychology, my grandmother said she was afraid I would become pagal (“crazy”) because of it.

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