Set the load down

Set the load down
Mental health help for Black women
She is competent past the point of exhaustion, and the reward for her competence is more weight.
The Strong Black Woman
The world has a name for her. It sounds like praise. It works like a sentence.
Strong is what you call a woman when you need her to keep carrying.
Resource 1
Therapy for Black Girls
A directory of Black women therapists who already get it. For the woman tired of explaining herself first.
First step: Start with the podcast on the drive home. Search Therapy for Black Girls wherever you listen.
Resource 2
The Loveland Foundation
Pays for therapy for Black women and girls. More than 210,000 hours of care funded so far.
For the woman whose wall is the invoice.
First step: Apply directly on their site at thelovelandfoundation.org
Resource 3
Sista Afya Community Care
What they offer
Therapy
Case management
Free workshops
Who it's for
The woman priced out of care. Payment is set by what you actually earn. Located on Chicago's South Side.
First step: Look up Sista Afya.
Resource 4
Black Women's Health Imperative
The first nonprofit created by Black women for Black women's health. Mental health inside the full picture: body, life, and policy.
Body
Whole-person physical and mental wellness
Life
Support through every stage and season
Policy
Advocacy that changes systems, not just symptoms
First step: Bring their material to your chapter or ministry.
Resource 5
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Call or text 988
Free. Around the clock. You do not have to be sure you are in crisis to use it.
First step: Save 988 in your phone before you close this screen. Right now.
A word to the men who love her
Stop outsourcing your healing to her
Ask her how she is
Be still long enough to hear the real answer.
Take something off her list
Quietly. Without being asked.
Pick one this week
1
Money is the wall?
Apply to The Loveland Foundation today.
2
Start small tonight
Open Therapy for Black Girls podcast.
3
Near Chicago?
Look up Sista Afya Community Care.
4
Do this right now
Save 988 in your phone before you close this.
5
Men: one thing
One thing off her list. Unasked.
You asking for help is not the strong Black woman breaking. It is her deciding, at last, to be one of the people she takes care of.
Mama, that includes you.
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