Soothe Your Nerves: The Black Woman's Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Fearz by Angela Neal-Barnett

3.97 AVERAGE

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peachmoni's review against another edition

4.5
hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
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nlittlejohn's review

1.0
medium-paced

lanigraph's review

5.0
i recommend this to all black people regardless of gender, and regardless of whether you have anxiety, but the unyielding centering of black women with chronic anxiety, panic attacks, and/or OCD is the power of this book. it is not a general discussion of anxiety with added-on parts about black women's experience. it is written for black women. a version that addresses black queer, trans, & incarcerated specific experiences of anxiety, panic, & fear would be so great (Plug for the trauma-informed Black Queer Healing by Quinn Gee Edwards). a lot of the therapeutic approach is literally rooted in black women's literary heritage (Audre Lorde in particular is a constant in the book). Accessible, culturally competent straightforward about how anxiety can be a manageable problem and doesn't have to be an eternal cross to black women to bear. incredibly competent review of drugs and unpacking stigma about drugs. fits well into any library concerned with black liberation/the black radical tradition/abolition.

nimsay's review against another edition

2.75
informative reflective medium-paced