Love Shouldn’t Break You: How High-Performing Black Women Can Cultivate Healthier Relationships
Jasmine Dowery Jasmine Dowery

Love Shouldn’t Break You: How High-Performing Black Women Can Cultivate Healthier Relationships

Black women have been carrying relationships on our backs for generations, mistaking struggle for intimacy and emotional labor for love. We’ve been taught that being needed is the same as being cherished. That bending until we damn near break is just part of the deal. And when we finally hit our breaking point, we still hear, “But you’re so strong.”

Let me tell you something: Strong women deserve soft love, too.

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Breaking Free from the Superwoman Schema: Why Black Women Deserve Rest & Healing
Jasmine Dowery Jasmine Dowery

Breaking Free from the Superwoman Schema: Why Black Women Deserve Rest & Healing

The expectation to be strong, self-sacrificing, and ever-capable is so deeply ingrained that slowing down feels like failure. This phenomenon is known as the Superwoman Schema, a term coined by Dr. Cheryl Woods-Giscombe to describe the unique pressures that Black women face in navigating strength, independence, and emotional suppression (Woods-Giscombe, 2010).

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thoughts on Reclaiming Our Bodies through hip movement
Jasmine Dowery Jasmine Dowery

thoughts on Reclaiming Our Bodies through hip movement

Black women’s bodies have never belonged solely to us—not in the eyes of society. From the enslavement era, where our bodies were commodified, to today’s workplace politics, where we are scrutinized for existing in our natural fullness, we have constantly fought for agency over our own movement.

When we twerk—on our own terms—we reclaim that agency.

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