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The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women (African American Studies)
By Marita Golden — 2025
Meet Black women who have learned through hard lessons the importance of self-care and how to break through the cultural and family resistance to seeking therapy and professional mental health care.
FULL SUMMARY
Meet Black women who have learned through hard lessons the importance of self-care and how to break through the cultural and family resistance to seeking therapy and professional mental health care.
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- Racial Justice (74)
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- Activism/Service (42)
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- Parenting (24)
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- LGBTQIA Well-Being (23)
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- Self-Love (12)
- Sexuality (12)
- AAPI Well-Being (11)
- Gender Challenges (11)
- Happiness (11)
- Inner Peace (11)
- Latinx Well-Being (11)
- Self-Esteem (11)
- Athlete Well-Being (10)
- Belonging (10)
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- Intergenerational Trauma (10)
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- Transformation (10)
- Awareness (9)
- Burnout (9)
- God (9)
- Imagination and Creativity (9)
- Inner Strengths (9)
- LGBTQIA Children (9)
- Self-Realization (9)
- Self-Reflection Practices (9)
- Anger (8)
- Building Culture (8)
- Confidence (8)
- Courage (8)
- Creative Well-Being (8)
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- Entrepreneurship (6)
- Growth Mindset (6)
- Habit Formation (6)
- Habits of Mind (6)
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- Journaling (6)
- Leadership (6)
- Neuroplasticity (6)
- Philosophical Approaches (6)
- Self-Compassion (6)
- Self-Limiting Beliefs (6)
- Setting Limits and Boundaries (6)
- Shame (6)
- Access to Education (5)
- Chronic Health Conditions (5)
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- Diet and Nutrition (5)
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- Healthy Eating (5)
- Hope (5)
- Intimacy (5)
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- Men’s Well-Being (5)
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- Psychology (5)
- PTSD (5)
- Religious Experience (5)
- Reproductive Health (5)
- Sacred Feminine (5)
- Spiritual Healing (5)
- Work Challenges (5)
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- Addiction Recovery (4)
- Affirmations (4)
- Archetypes (4)
- Cancer (4)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (4)
- Dysfunctional Childhood (4)
- Empathy (4)
- Energy Healing (4)
- Environmental Justice (4)
- Exercise (4)
- Fatherhood (4)
- Generational Healing (4)
- Homophobia (4)
- Indigenous Healing Approaches (4)
- Inner Child (4)
- Letting Go (4)
- LGBTQIA Sexuality (4)
- Living as an Empath (4)
- Mental Health Challenges (4)
- Neurodiversity (4)
- Positive Psychology (4)
- Rest (4)
- Self-Expression (4)
- Self-Mastery (4)
- Sex (4)
- Sleep (4)
- Spiritual Direction (4)
- Suffering (4)
- Trauma (4)
- Visualization (4)
- Vulnerability (4)
- ADD/ADHD (3)
- Adoption (3)
- Aging (3)
- Anger Management (3)
- Aura (3)
- Climate Change (3)
- Coming Out (3)
- Compassion (3)
- Compassion Fatigue (3)
- Cross-Cultural Parenting (3)
- Disabled Well-Being (3)
- Discrimination (3)
- Economic Justice (3)
- Family Acceptance (3)
- Forest Bathing (3)
- Gender Transition (3)
- Grit (3)
- Guilt (3)
- Higher Calling (3)
- Imposter Syndrome (3)
- Intention (3)
- Jungian Analysis (3)
- Kindness (3)
- LGBTQIA Parents (3)
- Marriage (3)
- Moral Philosophy (3)
- Motivation (3)
- Optimism (3)
- Othering (3)
- Peak Performance (3)
- Psychology and Spirituality (3)
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- Self-Pressure (3)
- Self-Reckoning (3)
- Storytelling (3)
- Time Management (3)
- Veteran Well-Being (3)
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- Accepting Love (2)
- Acupressure (2)
- Adaptability (2)
- Asking for Help (2)
- Auric Field (2)
- Autoimmune Disease (2)
- Ayurveda (2)
- Biofeedback (2)
- Body Positivity (2)
- Challenges with Teens (2)
- Child’s ADD/ADHD (2)
- Clinical Depression (2)
- Codependency (2)
- Collective Trauma (2)
- Compassion Meditation (2)
- Crystals (2)
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- Disconnection (2)
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- Friendship (2)
- Goal Setting (2)
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- Intuition (2)
- Jealousy/Envy (2)
- Living with Illness (2)
- Loneliness (2)
- Lovingkindness Meditation (2)
- Magic (2)
- Mentoring (2)
- Military to Civilian Re-entry (2)
- Mindfulness Meditation (2)
- Native American Beliefs (2)
- Offering Support to Others (2)
- Performance Anxiety (2)
- Play (2)
- Post-Traumatic Growth (2)
- Presence (2)
- Psychic Abilities (2)
- Self-Control (2)
- Self-Reliance (2)
- Sexual Assault or Abuse (2)
- Shadow (2)
- Shamanic Healing (2)
- Situational Depression (2)
- Social Psychology (2)
- Somatic Practices (2)
- Sound Healing (2)
- Spiritual Awakening (2)
- Spirituality and Health (2)
- Suicide (2)
- Talk Therapy (2)
- Tarot (2)
- Toxic Relationships (2)
- Transitions (2)
- Values (2)
- Zen Buddhism (2)
- Abandonment (1)
- Acceptance (1)
- Altered States (1)
- Anima/Animus (1)
- Art Therapy (1)
- Astral Projection (1)
- Autism (1)
- Awe (1)
- Building Character (1)
- Chakras (1)
- Child’s Anxiety (1)
- Child’s Autism (1)
- Child’s Trauma (1)
- Christian Mysticism (1)
- Chronic Anxiety (1)
- Chronic Pain (1)
- Collaboration (1)
- Comparing Belief Traditions (1)
- Criticism and Rejection (1)
- Curiosity (1)
- Death or Loss of a Child (1)
- Digital Life (1)
- Divination Systems (1)
- Domestic Abuse (1)
- Doubt (1)
- Dream Analysis (1)
- Drug Policy (1)
- Ego (1)
- EMDR (1)
- Facing Own Death (1)
- Fate (1)
- Fatigue (1)
- Financial Instability (1)
- Gender and Spirituality (1)
- Generosity (1)
- Genetics (1)
- Grace (1)
- Guided Meditation (1)
- Handling a Loved One’s Illness (1)
- Heartmath (1)
- Herbal Supplementation (1)
- Highly Sensitive People (1)
- Holism (1)
- Household Labor (1)
- Hypnosis (1)
- Illness and Injury (1)
- Insight (Vipassana) Meditation (1)
- Integrity (1)
- Karma (1)
- Kundalini Yoga (1)
- Lucid Dreaming (1)
- Managing Energy (1)
- Memory (1)
- Naturopathy (1)
- Neoshamanism (1)
- Non-Duality (1)
- OCD (1)
- Oneness (1)
- Past Life Regression (1)
- Perception (1)
- Personality Disorders (1)
- Positive Thinking (1)
- Postpartum Depression (1)
- Pregnancy and Childbirth (1)
- Productivity (1)
- Psychoanalysis (1)
- Psychological Approaches (1)
- Relationship with Money (1)
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- Science and Spirituality (1)
- Self-Employment (1)
- Sexual Health (1)
- Social Anxiety (1)
- Social Media Addiction (1)
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- Teacher Burnout (1)
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- Transpersonal Psychology (1)
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