Just Your Average Black Woman Going Through Life
I am not a doctor or Nurse, but I am a health care professional and as an Occupational Therapist I service adult patients alongside them. At a doctor’s request for rehabilitative services, I evaluate several skills including performance of basic self-care tasks, getting in and out of the bed, standing and transferring to various…
In reading about the 16 year old young women being sent home for her ‘unnatural’ hair color in North Carolina, professional hair braiders in Pennsylvania fighting for changes to licensing requirements, and hearing about one little girl’s questions about her natura hair, I thought about how Black women’s hair has been a conversation for…
As an Occupational Therapist I work with many children with different limitations including fine motor, gross motor, visual motor, and visual perceptual skills among other areas. The definition of these skills are as follows: All of this is to say that having average skill in these areas is the foundation to academic success…
In the U.S. there are approximately 18% of Black women and girls going missing and compared to the general number of us who make up the population this is a very large amount. There have been many cases that have gotten national attention over the years when women and kids go missing, but many…
July is National Minority Mental Health Month. This month brings awareness to the barrier to resources affecting many communities, especially that of Black, Brown, and Natives. Now as an Occupational Therapist, we can work in facilities that service people with mental illnesses and although I do not work full time with this population, as…
On this day June 19th, also known as Juneteenth, we reflect on the last days of our ancestors being told of their “freedom” and being physically enslaved was no more. Here we are now over 150 years later living in a world where so many are still enslaved and treated unfairly and here in…
As a kid, little boys almost always have their mother spoiling them and little girls have their father wrapped around their fingers, but of course the love from both parents is unmatched and in the end both boys and girls deserve love from their Father’s. One of the definitions of “Father” is a man who…
According to many successful real estate investors now is the time to buy a home as the prices are lower even with the higher interest rates because one can always refinance when the rates drop. In the United States of America, the numbers of people from various racial groups who own a home are as…
Recently, my husband and I had a conversation about women having a career and then having to come home to another job of cooking/cleaning/raising children versus women who are stay at home. In the past generations, mostly with two parent household families before the 1980s, women usually stayed at home while the men worked…
It is now college graduation season and I want to congratulate all those who have made it through to the end. Going to college is a beautiful thing if it’s your choice to go, so you deserve all the respect for going on the journey. But the way my student loans are set up…