{"product_id":"9780063377875","title":"Bloom How You Must : A Black Woman's Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing","description":"\u003cp\u003eA self-empowering wellness guide that celebrates the roots of self-care and community care as a sustaining force for generations of Black women. Bloom How You Must is a love letter to the millions of Black women who want a less stressful life but don't know where to begin. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSelf-care isn't a trend among Black women; it has always been a throughline in our heritage. Consider Coretta Scott King, who along with fellow activists Betty Shabazz and Myrlie Evers-Williams, would enjoy \"girls' trips\" to take a break from the stress of the Civil Rights Movement. Remember their contemporary Rosa Parks attended (and led) yoga classes while on the front lines for Black rights in Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThink of the enduring friendship between Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King, a sisterhood in which they have leaned on each other for nearly forty years while thriving in the glaring media and entertainment spotlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePicture Toni Morrison's overflowing gardens and lush houseplants she tended while writing classics like Beloved and The Bluest Eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRecall Audre Lord's enduring declaration written after her second cancer diagnosis: \"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBloom How You Must explores and expands on this self-care legacy and shows how it can help every Black woman today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTara Pringle Jefferson excavates the roots of self-care and community care as a sustaining force for generations of Black women and transforms her findings into a blueprint women can follow in their daily lives. A blend of guidebook and journal, Bloom How You Must explores several distinct pillars of wellness, featuring:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eResearch from leading wellness experts\n\u003cbr\u003eInterviews with women aged 19-99\n\u003cbr\u003eStories of personal experience\n\u003cbr\u003eOverviews and explanations of each component of self-care\n\u003cbr\u003eDedicated pages for readers to reflect on each chapter\n\u003cbr\u003eExercises to put wellness into practice\n\u003cbr\u003eEasy-to-follow explanatory graphics and sidebars\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith its diversity of insights,practical skills and multigenerational focus, Bloom How You Must is a love letter to the millions of Black women who want a less stressful life but don't know where to begin. Bloom How You Must gives them the tools they need to improve their health and their daily lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52598143942967,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":151.7,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780063377875-1.jpg?v=1783094837","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780063377875","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}