Breaking Free from the Superwoman Schema: A Path to Healing for Black Women Breaking Free from the Superwoman Schema: A Path to Healing for Black Women

Life Lately… What can you do to make your life more free? How can you create moments of softness for yourself? I’m asking myself these questions daily. So here’s what I’ve been doing… I’m reading…memoirs by black women, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Kerry Washington, Viola Davis, & Michelle Miller. I’ve been feeling out of alignment, because I…

Stress, without the aid of active coping skills, can wreak havoc on our bodies and create emotional distress that distorts our self-perception, interpersonal relationships, and worldview. Despite my best efforts to manage stress through regular exercise, guided meditation, and bi-weekly therapy sessions, I still deeply feel the emotional and psychological impacts of stress. Lately, I…

I was traveling earlier this week and my flight was severely delayed due to bad weather. I ended up finally being able to get on a flight that left out a little after 11PM. The security line was insane! And I had to take a train to my gate. The trains were limited because it…

Let’s be honest, so many of us struggle with the concept of self-care because we prioritize caregiving over self-care. Once we’ve prioritized caring for everyone and everything else…we have nothing left for ourselves and see self-care as another chore that makes us feel inadequate about not finding time to execute it. But there is one…

What experiences shape your point of view as it relates to beauty? Our early childhood experiences shape our nascent ideas about beauty, our self-concept as it relates to beauty, the way that we recognize the presence or absence of beauty in ourselves and in the world around us. We are all influenced by ideas about…