She Rich Life

“Confidence isn’t something you wait for, it’s something you build.” But what happens when you can’t even find the strength to build? I didn’t realize I was deeply depressed until I stopped grinding long enough to feel it. For years, my business was my coping mechanism. If I stayed busy, I didn’t have to face how heavy life had actually been. I thought I was functioning, but really, I was just surviving . Black women know that mask too well. We push through heartbreak, exhaustion, and loss because we were raised to“ keep going .” And when the world claps for how strong we are, we start believing that strength means silence. But depression in Black women doesn’t always look like lying in bed crying. It looks like still showing up . It looks like doing hair, sending emails, cooking dinner, answering calls, and saying “I’m fine” through clenched teeth. It looks like holding your kids together while you’re falling apart in private. It looks like being praised for resilience while you’r...