How I Practice Self-Care While Fighting Racism

As adiversity consultantandleadership speaker, my work is rooted inanti-oppression、非殖民化和破坏种族歧视,性别歧视,nd other forms of supremacy.

My work is extremely rewarding because it affords me the opportunity to deeply connect with people on both our shared experiences and our differences. It also gives me the chance to do my healing work because I get toaddress my woundsthat are caused byracismand more. And, I get to chip away atdismantling oppression.

But, doing this work is difficult! As I often say, a woke life is F’ing hard. It does impact me adversely. For example, it makes me really sad to constantly hear stories from people who have experienced marginalization and, more recently, I’m tuning more into how this work can give rise to feelings of anxiety and fear.

So what do I do to manage self-care to address the challenges of doing diversity and inclusion work?

Watch this video as I share my strategies! And please know, your work may affect you in ways that you may not expect or even know, which is why self-care is so important.