Minority Mental Health Month (July) | Overton High

1) Permission to come home: reclaiming mental health as Asian Americans

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"The first of its kind, Permission to Come Home is a crucial resource for the rapidly growing community of Asian Americans, immigrants, and other minorities and marginalized people to practice mental and emotional self-care. This book helps readers work on their mental health while understanding and honoring the richness of their heritage and embodying a new, complete, and whole identity. Throughout, Dr. Jenny Wang weaves together personal stories...

2) Black people breathe: a mindfulness guide to racial healing

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This practical guide features thirty-three mindfulness exercises centered on healing for the Black community, each focusing on the systemic challenges that people of color face and designed to deal with the emotions these experiences create.

3) Black girls breathing: heal from trauma, combat chronic stress, and find your freedom

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"From breathwork practitioner and the founder of black girls breathing®, a practical path for Black women to heal trauma, combat chronic stress, and find freedom in their own bodies and minds. It's no secret that Black women have been oppressed for centuries and, as a Black woman herself, Jasmine Marie knows the impact that intergenerational trauma and systemic racism have had-and continue to have-on her community. Those experiences are why she founded...

4) Reclaiming the black body: nourishing the home within

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McCullough, Alishia

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"Food has always been a political tool for the oppressor--and the Black body has always been one of its many battlegrounds. Licensed mental health therapist, somatic healer, and eating disorder specialist Alishia McCullough understands that for far too many Black women, racial trauma's seismic impact has disrupted their most essential relationship: the one they have with their bodies--and by extension, with their food. African Americans are disproportionately...

5) Self-care for black men: 100 ways to heal and liberate

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Caraballo, Jor-El

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"Black men desperately need care and restoration. But what does that restoration look like when you're a Black man in today's world? How do you take care of your mental health when men who look like you die at the hands of police? How do you find peace and refuge when you're not sure how to keep up with your partner? Or navigate a challenging workplace? While scrolling through social media feeds, you may feel like you don't have access to wellness...

6) Perseverance through severe dysfunction: breaking the curse of intergenerational trauma as a Black man in America

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"In Reggie Ford's bold reassessment of the Black experience in America, he demonstrates that a new understanding of PTSD is required. PTSD, Perseverance Through Severe Dysfunction, as Ford defines it, underlines the darkness of mental health illnesses and behaviors that impact young Black men and have plagued Black Americans for generations. But his reassessment is not doom and gloom. Instead, Ford implores that we turn pain into peace. His uplifting...

7) The invisible ache: Black men identifying their pain and reclaiming their power

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Vance, Courtney B

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"Early in his career, actor Courtney B. Vance lost his father to suicide. Recently, he lost his godson to the same fate. Still, as mental health discourse hits the mainstream, it leaves the most vulnerable out of the conversation: Black men. In America, we teach that strength means holding back tears and shaming your own feelings. In the Black community, these pressures are especially poignant. Poor mental health outcomes-- including diagnoses of...

8) Therapy isn't just for White people

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"Therapy Isn't Just For White People is a brilliant debut memoir chronicling Imani's compelling journey to understand the racial trauma experienced by many Black people in America and the underlying effect it has on Black mental health. Through therapy, Imani was introduced to the concept of racial trauma, and discovered how her own unrecognized racial trauma affected her mental health, self-image, and worldview. Spanning more than twenty years, Imani...

9) The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women

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Major Health Crisis Among Black Women Generated from Systemic Racism

“Marita Golden’s The Strong Black Woman busts the myth that Black women are fierce and resilient by letting the reader in under the mask that proclaims ‘Black don’t crack.’” ―Karen Arrington, coach, mentor, philanthropist, and author of NAACP Image Award-winning Your Next Level Life

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10) Black fatigue: how racism erodes the mind, body, and spirit

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Winters, Mary-Frances

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This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of Black people--and explain why and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious effects. Black people, young and old, are fatigued, says award-winning diversity and inclusion leader Mary-Frances Winters. It is physically, mentally, and emotionally draining to continue to experience...

11) The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing

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Singh, Anneliese A

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A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal.

Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. This journey can be a bumpy ride, and before we begin healing, we need to gain an understanding of the role history plays in racial/ethnic myths and stereotypes. In so many ways, to heal

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12) Birdgirl: looking to the skies in search of a better future

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Craig, Mya-Rose

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"Birder, environmentalist and activist Mya-Rose Craig is an international force. In her moving memoir, Birdgirl, she chronicles her mother's struggle with mental illness, and shares her passion for social justice and fierce dedication to preserving our planet. Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as "Birdgirl." In her words: "Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my...

13) And then she fell: a novel

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Elliott, Alicia

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"From the bestselling author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, a fierce, gripping novel about Native life, motherhood and mental health that follows a young Mohawk woman who discovers that the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences. On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her ever-charming husband Steve--a white academic whose area of...

14) Notes on her color: a novel

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After her mother is hospitalized for a mental health crisis, Gabrielle, a young black and indigenous woman who has the ability to change the color of her skin, is drawn to her piano instructor who embodies everything she's missing in her life--creativity, confidence, and a nurturing sense of love.

15) Weathering: the extraordinary stress of ordinary life in an unjust society

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Geronimus, Arline T

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"Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people"-- Provided by publisher.

16) Living while Black: using joy, beauty, and connection to heal racial trauma

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Kinouani, Guilaine

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"Living While Black is a powerful expose of the impact of anti-black racism and a practical guide to overcome racial trauma"-- Provided by publisher.

17) Brave Enough to Be Broken: How to Embrace Your Pain and Discover Hope and Healing

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Reclaim wholeness and freedom in your life as you overcome brokenness through God's healing, restorative power.

Trauma, abuse, childhood wounds, and toxic relationships have broken us. But there is no shame in brokenness. In fact, it's in our brokenness where the healing power of Jesus comes to find us.

Brave Enough to Be Broken is a biblical road map you can use to heal from the pain, the shame, and the regrets that

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18) Sisterhood heals: the trasformative power of healing in community

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Bradford, Joy Harden

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"A groundbreaking exploration of how to harness concepts from group therapy and the safety (and joy) of sisterhood to heal yourself and your relationships, from the licensed clinical psychologist who founded the award-winning podcast Therapy for Black Girls. There's an unlimited supply of books, articles, and listicles about how to work on a relationship and grow with a partner, but there are far fewer resources about what healthy growth looks like...

19) Under the skin: the hidden toll of racism on American lives and the health of a nation

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Villarosa, Linda

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"The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation, by a groundbreaking journalist at the New York Times Magazine"-- Provided by publisher.

20) Life, I swear: intimate stories from black women on identity, healing, and self-trust

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"In this stunningly illustrated essay collection inspired by the popular podcast Life, I Swear, prominent Black women reflect on self-love and healing, sharing stories of the trials and tribulations they've faced and what has helped them confront pain, heal wounds, and find connection"-- Provided by publisher.