Introduction: mental health, healing, and wellness: an intellectual history of self-care -- Look inward: healing traditions (a 1975 portrait). Yoga is self-possession ; Managing traumatic stress ; Medica, cura te ipsum--physician, heal thyself: meditation on a fiftieth birthday -- Look backward: historical wellness (pre-1975). Blue zones for black women: centenarians on mind, body and spirit ; Weathering the weary blues: enslavement, Jane Crow, and migration ; Everyday violence, everyday peace: civil rights, black power, and a new age -- Look forward: toward mental health (post-1975). Memoirs are mentors: narratives of African yoga ; Survivor self-care: midlife mindfulness and wellness activism ; The purpose of black women's studies: meditation on a fiftieth anniversary -- Conclusion: woosah--remember to breathe: ancient peace, self-care pedagogy, and the future of African yoga -- Coda: my last will and testament: stress and inner peace during a global pandemic.
Summary:
"Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions"-- Provided by publisher.
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