When Covid-19 hit, workers in teaching, nursing, hospitality and retail — occupations where women predominate —bore a fair part of the burden associated with the disease.
And no group felt this more acutely than Black and brown women.
Women struggle to balance self-care against filling the needs of their families.
But for Black women, juggling those competing needs often comes against a backdrop of intergenerational trauma and suppression of their emotions.
In the Black community, women have perfected obsessive selflessness to an art form.
We end up exhausted, emotionally drained — and in many cases, unhealthy — because we are conditioned to serve the needs of others, to our own detriment.
We have lost friends, sorority sisters and mentors to hypertension-induced strokes, heart attacks, diabetes complications and plain old exhaustion from a lack of meaningful self-care. (CNN)
So, self care comes first!
If not today, when?
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