ISBN:
9781438483658
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (474 pages)
Series Statement:
Suny Series in Black Women's Wellness
Series Statement:
SUNY Series in Black Women's Wellness Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.48896
Keywords:
Women, Black Social conditions
;
Older women Social conditions
;
Stress management
;
Older women-Social conditions
;
Women, Black-Social conditions
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface. What Lies Inside: Writing Myself Well -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Mental Health, Healing, and Wellness: An Intellectual History of Self-Care -- Letters to Our Daughters: Narrative Mentoring and Reclaiming a History of Africana Yoga -- Mental Health Maintenance: Stress and the Rationale for Studying Inner Peace -- Healing Traditions: Traumatic Stress in the #Me Too Era -- Historical Wellness: Resources for Applied Intellectual History -- Book Outline. Regeneration: Telling Our Truths Backward, Inward, and Forward -- A Note on Sources and Method -- Part I Look Inward. Healing Traditions (A 1975 Portrait) -- 1 Yoga is Self-Possession -- Definitions of Yoga and Meditation in Black Historical Context: Convergent and Divergent Cultural Practices -- A Study of African and African American Yoga Traditions -- Popular Styles of Yoga -- On Meditation: Types of Mindfulness Practice -- 2 Managing Traumatic Stress -- Defining Traumatic Stress: The Case for Africana Mindfulness -- Kinds of Traumatic Events -- Rituals for Recovery from Sexual Assault -- Survival, Also Known as Continuous Traumatic Stress: Properly Naming a Black Women's Mental Health Crisis -- Historical Trauma, the Limits of Self-Help, and the Tragic Inevitability of Struggle -- Mental Health in Memoirs: The Africana Memoirs Database -- Social Locations of Trauma: A Human Rights Framework -- International Stress (Global) -- National Stress (Macro) -- Community Stress (Meso) -- Personal Stress (Micro) -- 3 Medica, cura te ipsum-Physician, Heal Thyself: Meditation on a Fiftieth Birthday -- The Beautiful: My Time in the Tower (2016) -- The Ugly: Struggle for Wellness and Wellness for Struggle -- The Past -- The Present -- The Future -- The Healing: Wellness Education and Lifelong Learning.
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