🎨 @ohhappydani Starting the week with a hopeful and healing wish for all of you and yours to be gentle and kind with yourselves. • This is a wish for those fighting injustice, those working hard to change broken systems, those committed to making the world a better place, those burning the candle at both ends to keep themselves and their families afloat during loss, struggle, and transformation. • Psychiatrist and trauma expert #judithherman writes: “After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.” • We all need time to self soothe, especially those of us surviving and recovering from trauma of many different sorts. If you are a caretaker, please be extra mindful of tending to your own emotional (not to mention physical) needs as well. As you parent your child during these challenging months of global stress and change, teaching them how to stay calm, how to feel safe, please practice re-teaching yourself these same methods and mantras of self care. • We as adults often don’t parent ourselves as gently and thoughtfully as we'd parent a child. Rest, nourish, and heal in the best way you know how, and remember, self-care is not selfish. • If you can, consider a donation: @birthequity @thelovelandfoundation @sadgirlsclub @therapyforblackgirls @blackmamasmatter and please add and amplify any other communities and how you’re caring for yourself and the greater collective in the comments below. • #matrescence #motherhoodunplugged #motherhoodunfiltered #mom #moms #mother #mothers #momma #mommas #matrescencia #mommy #motherhood #realmotherhood #lifeasamama #mommystatus #motherhoodjourney #thatmomlife #mymotherhood #motherhoodsessions #blackmaternalhealth #blackparents #blackmothers #birthingwhileblack #maternalmentalhealth #maternalhealth #maternal #selfcare #selfcarequotes #mentalhealth