Knowledge + Resilience = Power

I learned early on as a younger person, and now live by this idea as a researcher and therapist; I need creative outlets like writing ,...

As you know, I'm constantly thinking or creating. In my view, everyone can win if we find ways to do so. The best way to achieve this is...

The Pandemic Brain and Reading. Read below my "short-short" audiobook review of Viola Davis's memoir, "Finding me". I have to admit that...

The question that everybody wants to know: Does meditation work? Here I am addressing meditation within the tradition of Buddhism (FYI:...

The Peer Review Process. Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in a conversation on the Clubhouse app where the topic was on the...

\ Dozens of parents have asked me about homeschooling. I am honestly back on the fence. Not about homeschooling itself, but about how to...

A Boss Chick's Guide to Mindfulness Meditation: ​A Workbook for Black Women ​by Dr. Venus E. Evans-Winters Every Boss Chick needs this...

The beginnings of mindfulness as a spiritual practice. The Mindfulness Writer. In my most recent single-authored book, "Black Feminism in...

Dr. Venus Evans-Winters, scholar-activist, therapist, and author, keynote address at a Midwestern university. Yup, that's me, Dr. V,...

Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry: ​A Mosaic for Writing Our Daughter's Body ​by Venus E. Evans-Winters #1 New Release in Social...

Sometimes we forget to SAY THE NAME of our Black women artists whom have been muses to our souls as their lyrics played in the background...

Mindful Educators: Is Therapy For Me? Twenty years ago, I endured one of the most stressful, and most memorable, times in my education...

There is an unspoken or silenced dialogue amongst people of color and working class families. The silenced dialogue usually shows up as...

As Black-mother-lesbian-warrior-poet Audre Lorde stated, “Caring for myself isn’t self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is...

#Me Too, Sis In this post, I explain how the attempted white-washing and decontextualizing of the #MeToo catchphrase threatened to leave...

Mass shootings are acts of terrorism because they cause pain, fear, and confusion to immediate direct victims and onlookers near and far....

I run to discipline my body. No, I do not need to lose weight. But, I want to discipline my physical body. Not to cause myself pain, but...

Dear Sister, I write this letter to you as a daughter, sister, mother, and friend whom has been wounded in the past by personal...