When we are healing, we outgrow many people, things, and beliefs in that process. With family, it’s not always so easy. We don’t want to leave them behind and sometimes we can’t, so what do you do?
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If you flash back to the prenatal care you received, do you feel you were properly educated about breastfeeding as a black woman? I’ve conducted focus groups, spoke with other women, and health care providers and majority of them were not educated about breastfeeding and the resources in their community.
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Unfortunately, I used to buy into the hype of being a strong Black woman, until it hit home. An ER visit for some chest pains turned into a life changing diagnosis. We were informed that she had several mini strokes, had congestive heart failure, heart disease and would need triple bypass heart surgery and a valve replacement.
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You’re the life of the party, but you still feel alone. You’re the successful friend; the one everyone considers stable; the one who has her life together, so you can’t show signs of weakness. So instead you try to ignore it. If you’re reading this and can relate to it, you may have a case of what I call faking normal.
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