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Finding Balance: Distinguishing Between Self-Care and Laziness

Doing nothing sounds nice but many of us can’t bring ourselves to do it.  Why?  We live in a multi-tasking, hustle-hard, and team-no-sleep culture. That’s part of the reason “self-care” has become such a buzzword nowadays. And for us women, we give so much of ourselves to others so often that guilt follows whenever we take …

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Escapism is vital for black mental health to thrive and that in itself is a problem.

I spent most of the day, today running. Not physically, no. Mentally. I spent all day trying to keep my mind off of the lynching of black bodies in America. I jumped from movie to movie, to ridiculous episodes of Empire. Binge-watching “For Life” with so much angst, but joy because I know that eventually, …

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