ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

Your Journey: Black/African American

By NAMI Content Team — 2021

What happens at the intersection of mental health and one’s experience as a member of the Black community?

Read on www.nami.org

FindCenter Post-Image

Exploring the Mental Health Stigma in Black Communities

The Black community is more inclined to say that mental illness is associated with shame and embarrassment. Individuals and families in the Black community are also more likely to hide the illness.

Article
Amy Morin
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

For Queer Men of Color, Pressure to Have a Perfect Body Is About Race Too

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.

Article
Naveen Kumar
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

You Are Not an Imposter, You Are for Real.

We’ve all heard the fake it till you make it a phenomenon. Like every student. A person with imposter syndrome can have all the training in the world with the finest degrees, and still not believe they have the right for people to recognize their accomplishments.

Article
Muse Admin Team
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Dealing with Impostor Syndrome When You’re Treated as an Impostor

Impostor syndrome is not a unique feeling, but some researchers believe it hits minority groups harder.

Article
Kristin Wong
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Reimagining Mental Health for BIPOC Communities

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.

Article
Tori DeAngelis
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Black History Month and the Celebration of Black Joy

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?

Article
A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap

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.

Article
Serena Williams
2017
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The No. 1 Reason to Treat Yourself with Grace

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.

Article
Panache Desai
2015
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Nicole Cardoza’s Meditation for Finding Abundance

Try this short meditation when you need a reminder that you are, and have, enough.

Article
Nicole Cardoza
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Black Womxn: You Are Not Defective

Many Black womxn experience themselves as fraudulent or substandard. It's a lie.

Article
Resmaa Menakem
2021
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Emotional and Mental Health