Playing a New Game: A Black Woman’s Guide to Being Well and Thriving in the Workplace

Drawing on first-hand medical perception and scientific analysis, Dr. Wilborn provides much-needed recommendation on how ladies of shade might be high-performing and profitable professionally, with out sacrificing their bodily, psychological, and emotional wellness.

Black and brown ladies have been making profound strides in management {and professional} achievement, regardless of going through the added hurdles of each sexism and racism within the office. However so typically, excelling at work comes on the expense of their wellness: the persistent stressors and calls for on Black ladies can lead to detrimental bodily well being outcomes similar to sleep disturbance, hypertension, and diabetes, and detrimental psychological well being outcomes together with nervousness and melancholy. We can’t discuss profession development for Black and brown ladies with out speaking about methods that promote their whole wellbeing.

Enjoying a New Recreation provides ladies a brand new manner ahead, wherein ambition and wellness can’t solely coexist, however bolster one another. With insights from her 20 years {of professional} counseling expertise and in depth analysis, psychological well being professional Dr. Tammy Wilborn expands the dialogue on BIPOC ladies’s experiences of race and gender stereotypes at work, exploring them as a wellness subject. By way of her evidence-based finest practices that promote self-care and self-empowerment as needed instruments for skilled success, Black and brown ladies can flip the script by prioritizing their wellness whilst they advance professionally.