Description
Marita Golden, a prominent interviewee of Oprah Winfrey, wrote this mental and physical health guide for women to learn who they are, to set healthy boundaries, and to jump into health related fitness practices to balance out their daily lives.
Know Yourself. Jump start your relationship with yourself. Renowned author Marita Golden goes in-depth on how using meditation, silence, prayer, affirmations, and reflections allows for internal trust and confidence to blossom in your daily life.
Set Boundaries. Setting boundaries can be difficult but they are necessary to living life as a strong woman in today's world. Everyone else's burdens are not yours to carry and no, you don't have to fix everyone you come across! Learn how to set emotional boundaries, physical boundaries, and other boundaries to live freely.
Inside, you'll find:
- Healthy habits to reconnect with your inner self, your body, and those around you
- An empowering book for women to learn how to take back their lives one day at a time
- A mental health guide for women, black women affirmations, and reflection points to develop holistic wellness
If you're looking for mental health books for young adults and/or the strong black women in your life, this book is for you! If you enjoyed Set Boundaries, Find Peace, How we Heal, This Is How You Heal or You Are Your Best Thing, you'll love The New Black Woman.
Main Platform and Numbers:
- Twitter: 2,885 followers
- Facebook: 1.9K likes
- Instagram: 996 followers
- LinkedIn: 643 followers & 500+ connections
- Marita was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show for her previous book Saving Our Sons
- She was interviewed by Maria Shriver regarding The Wide Circumference of Love
- Marita was featured in a celebration of the life of Ntozake Shange alongside Roland Martin
- She has been featured at many conferences, podcasts, and radio shows across the country
- The author is purposefully increasing her social media presence and email list
About the Author
Marita Golden, cofounder and president emeritus of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, is a veteran teacher of writing and an acclaimed award-winning author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. She has served as a member of the faculties of the MFA graduate creative writing programs at George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University and in the MA creative writing program at John Hopkins University and has taught writing internationally to a variety of constituencies. She has been interviewed by Oprah Winfrey as a remarkable leader for black women worldwide. She currently lives in Maryland.
Reviews
"Love-whether it is loving others or yourself-is the most important thing. It is a doorway for compassion, kindness, gratitude and well-being. Marita Golden's moving personal narrative invites you to step through a new door; to be with yourself, and ultimately, to love yourself in only the way you know how."
-Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley, blogger, interviewer, memoirist, and author of The Gift of Crisis
"Golden is adept in her prose and delivers a bold, honest, unflinching gaze at the myriad issues impacting Black women. She emboldens her readers to become New Age Strong Black Women who prevail over their history and rise from the ashes of the past with a brave understanding of what it means to be Black and female in the world today. These essays are creative, inventive, and necessary."
-M.J. Fievre, educator, editor, playwright, and author of the Badass Black Girl series
"Golden's journey is along a road that, in the end, is filled with trees bearing fruit of a very special life and lives, thankfully shared by one of our most powerful writers."
-Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American civil rights activist, journalist, and former foreign correspondent for NPR, CNN, and PBS
"It illuminates the present while scouring the past, and points to a future where Black women can be vibrant, healthy, and equally considered members of society."
-Karen Arrington, coach, mentor, philanthropist, and author of NAACP Image Award-winning Your Next Level Life
"Bravo for writing a book that will long benefit us all."
-Zelda Lockhart, author of the novel Fifth Born
"Black, White, man, woman, and child-who wants to remain healthy and survive in a world that wants otherwise."
-DeNeen L. Brown, award-winning writer for The Washington Post and producer of the documentary Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten
"Marita Golden brings us full circle-to the hard, joy-filled, secret, fragile and fierce spaces within us-to bestow that love, that care and empathy we are known to so readily share, back to ourselves."
-Erica Vital-Lazare, editor of the McSweeney's series Of the Diaspora
"Golden has come with this new powerful and transformative book to help us break through, to unmuzzle ourselves, soothe our souls and sing a song filled with joy and victory-to sing our own Freedom Song."
-Jonetta Rose Barras, author of Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?: The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women
"Golden asks readers to humanize Black women; we aren't unfeeling superheroes, but women who need to be listened to, supported, and respected. She also leaves them with an important challenge: lighten the load for the Black woman in your life. It's a challenge that, should it be met, can create a society that benefits all people, especially those who have borne the brunt for centuries."
-Monique L. Jones, author of The Book of Awesome Black Americans
"We experience her tears as she shares her story and stories of Black women to unpeel layers of complexities, traumas, grief, and closeted taboos, ranging from colorism and obesity to sexual assault. Saying their names and reimagining stories of Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer and Patrisse Cullors, Golden breathes triumphant humanity into lives of Black women who made Black America matter and made America a better nation. Golden creates a path for all those who heed her call to search for joy."
-Marilyn Holifield, senior partner at Holland & Knight LLP, cofounder of Miami MoCAAD, and coauthor of Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths About Black Student Activism in the 1960s
"I have been waiting for a well-researched and thoughtful book that provides a deep look into the experiences of Black women. Marita Golden gives us that book, one in which she develops the vision and possibility of a woman who is self-reflective enough, gracious enough, and self-loving enough to heal and be healthy. A book that is a call to arms. A book that will empower any man or woman reading it."
-Dr. Goldie Byrd, director of the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity at Wake Forest University
"This book is gonna save some sisters' lives. Hallelujah!"
-Patrice Gaines, author of Laughing in the Dark
"The New Black Woman is so important for Black Women today. I love this book because it gives Black women permission and tools to learn how to take better care of themselves, particularly in a world that discourages them from doing so. Marita Golden's work is refreshing and enlightening, as it encourages more Black women to deeply know their worth and understand what self-care practices can look like. I'm so happy for more women to have this knowledge and these strategies."
-Dr. Amber Thornton, clinical psychologist specializing in motherhood mental health
Book Information
ISBN 9781684812226
Author Marita Golden
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Yellow Pear Press
Publisher Yellow Pear Press
Dimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 13mm
