Black Love - Davis, Shaniqua

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Résumé :
While the black community struggles to overcome the confinement to poverty, health disparities, the lack of resources, lack of opportunities, and the lack of skill in interpersonal and environmental coping, there is a more important issue that puts our community at risk of these things and needs to be faced. What really happened to the structure of black families and how is this impacting our lives today? If you have been drawn to this workbook, there is something on the inside of you that knows there is a problem within our culture. A problem so big yet so small that we've overlooked it! Or maybe we've just given up hope that there would ever be a change!! Either way you are here reading this because YOU have a desire to be a part of a change that'll be the beginning of knocking down that invisible barrier that's holding our culture back from ever truly coming out of bondage. Restoring black love means restoring black wealth, but before we can restore black love we have to get to the root of what's keeping us incompatible with one another. As a licensed therapist, I have created this workbook, which provides worksheets that can be used alongside my course or individually, as a therapeutic self-help resource. The provided worksheets target key issues that could be keeping you in these cycles of broken relationships, that we see so often in our community. There are so many things that we experience that classify as trauma, and that mixed with the pressures we face on a daily basis, affect our mental health, which in turn affects our relationships. The child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth, if you know what I mean. Hurt people hurt people! A key component to any relationship is the ability to be self aware enough to understand how your beliefs and unconscious traumas have shaped your life and how they may be shaping the way you see your significant others life. Understanding and working on self, while being present and aware of your partners needs, allows the relationship to naturally conform to a more lasting and fulfilling relationship. So, this workbook is going to help you navigate through inner work to pre-first date preparedness to long lasting relationships. There has been a statistically significant decline in the nuclear structure of the black family, and as your agent of change, I am determined to restore those strong family bonds we once knew. Let's start working on your lasting and fulfilling relationship!