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Stress Is Weathering Our Bodies From the Inside Out
Too often this story of inequity and disadvantage in health gets dismissed as “only” affecting the poor, or being one of class, not race. It is indisputable that poverty creates emotional disruption, inequality, and fear. Health-care facilities in lower-income communities are often underfunded and left to waste away. The poorest communities lack ac
... See moreLinda Villarosa • Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
“Black and Indigenous people don’t experience post-traumatic stress disorder. We experience persistent and pervasive traumatic stress. It’s ongoing,” Resmaa says. “White body supremacy weathers and erodes the brain architecture. It weathers the endocrine system. It weathers the musculoskeletal system. It weathers the reproductive system. It is the
... See moreIvy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Too many stressors, some insignificant and some demanding, compounded over a prolonged period of time can truly break our backs.
Mo Gawdat • Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living
the fight was so incessant, insisting on our every mental and emotional fiber for our survival, that rarely had we been given a moment to think about what might exist in our lives or on the planet when we finished fighting.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology
stress can make us sick, and a critical shift in medicine has been the recognition that many of the damaging diseases of slow accumulation can be either caused or made far worse by stress.
Robert M. Sapolsky • Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping (Third Edition)
We compartmentalized the stress and ongoing trauma, flattening it into something survivable, but we nonetheless ate it for breakfast, and lunch, and dinner. We swam in that stress. We slept in it. We swallowed it in gulps. We lived through it, and we told ourselves stories of resilience, because what other choice did we have. But the body is bad at... See more