Tag: black lives matter
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Episode 008: Racial Trauma
Let’s talk racial trauma shall we? Racism is systemic. It seeps into everything, especially when you are a Black woman in a world where people are trying to tell you how to be and how to act.
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Episode 005: Lessons Learned From 10 Years of Therapy
Okay ya’ll this is a must listen! I’m giving you my free lessons I’ve learned from 10 years of therapy, in a 30 minute podcast episode!
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Episode 001: Welcome to SLD Wellness the Podcast!
So excited to share this first episode with you!! SLD Wellness is a judgement free zone, a place to find and use your voice and to realize that you already have the tools inside of yourself.
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7 Lessons Learned As My Own Boss
I’ve officially been my own boss for a week and it’s been an adventure! The LLC for SLD Wellness was established January 1, and I’ve been on go ever since.
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A Letter to Myself- 2020
As you were fighting to take care of yourself and get sleep, while Black people were fighting for their lives, there was also an awakening taking place within yourself that made you question what you want. In your environment, life and day to day.
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Black Mental Health- Part 2
In a world where Black women are often forced to nurture others without being given a chance to nurture themselves, it leaves you feeling like you aren’t seen.
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Black Mental Health- Part 1
In a world where as a Black woman it already feels like you don’t matter, work isn’t a place where you should also feel that way.
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Reminder of My Lowest Point
Navigating mental health as a Black woman is HARD. I use to feel like I couldn’t be honest about what I was feeling. There’s a meme I’ve seen that I think perfect sums up the lack of support Black women get for mental health – it’s cartoon of a Black woman drowning and in the…
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My Lowest Point
**Trigger warning, this post discusses suicide ideation** I don’t normally open up to this extent about my struggles, but I’m feeling the need to be vulnerable and I’m rolling with it. When I think about my lowest point, I get really emotional. Because I feel a lot of shame about it.
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Roll Call
I see my brothers as loving, gentle, nerdy, musical geniuses. To the world, they’re just black men, a potential threat. Our skin is seen as a threat. And yet we operate in the world with a welcoming smile.