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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When Men Come to Therapy: From Echo Chambers to Inner Knowing
Mens Mental Health, Masculinity and Identity, Therapy and Emotional Healing, Generational and Cultural Healing, Relationships and Vulnerability, Somatic and Parts Work Practices, Dagem Lemma LCSW Dagem Lemma, LMSW Mens Mental Health, Masculinity and Identity, Therapy and Emotional Healing, Generational and Cultural Healing, Relationships and Vulnerability, Somatic and Parts Work Practices, Dagem Lemma LCSW Dagem Lemma, LMSW

When Men Come to Therapy: From Echo Chambers to Inner Knowing

In therapy, I meet men who’ve been talking—to themselves, to friends, to podcasts, to Reddit threads and ChatGPT—for years. Group-chats and buddy hangouts echo the silence of unrequited vulnerability. They’ve been thinking through their relationships, their failures, their fears, their anger. But often, they’re not being heard in a way that brings relief or clarity. 

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