When the Body Says “No”: Black Women, Stress, and the Silent Toll on Our Health
Black Women's Health and Chronic Stress, Trauma and Healing, Autoimmune Illness and Health Disparities, Body-Mind Connection, Rest and Resistance, Identity and Emotional-Wellbeing Cydni Richardson, MSPH, BCD Black Women's Health and Chronic Stress, Trauma and Healing, Autoimmune Illness and Health Disparities, Body-Mind Connection, Rest and Resistance, Identity and Emotional-Wellbeing Cydni Richardson, MSPH, BCD

When the Body Says “No”: Black Women, Stress, and the Silent Toll on Our Health

There’s a kind of tiredness many Black women know in our bones. Not the kind that a nap can fix, but the kind that builds slowly over years of holding everything together. We learn early that our value is measured by how much we can carry, the job, the family, the caregiving, the community work, and then we wonder why our bodies ache under the weight of it all.

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