The holidays are emotionally challenging for many reasons, but they take on a unique toll on working-class folks who end up in relationships with a partner who comes from a middle or upper-class background. As someone who grew up relatively poor with a single-mom who is currently under-employed, I have a complicated relationship to Christmas, but that became all the more … [Read more...]
Don’t Just Rest – HALT to Get through Difficult Days
This piece first appeared on the website, Rest for Resistance, and is reprinted here by permission. I fight suicidal depression every year. I owe my success in this fight to an acronym a Black psychologist named Dr. Vernon Savage taught me while I was a struggling undergrad. HALT stands for never get too Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired. I’m … [Read more...]
