Watershed Voice columnist Aundrea Sayrie’s new series “Good Grief.” explores how loss lives in everyday lives, and its impact on mental health. In The Mother Wound, Part Four, Sayrie writes, "Sometimes the body carries what the mind learned to minimize" but "healing begins when we realize that the nervous system can learn new experiences too."
Watershed Voice columnist Aundrea Sayrie’s new series “Good Grief.” explores how loss lives in everyday lives, and its impact on mental health. In The Mother Wound, Part Three, Sayrie writes that "children should not have to earn gentleness" because "they deserved it all along." And when they don't receive that care, it leads to self doubt and shame as they grow older.
Watershed Voice columnist Aundrea Sayrie's new series "Good Grief." explores how loss lives in everyday lives, and its impact on mental health. In The Mother Wound, Part Two, Sayrie looks at the "absence you can't name," as some grief isn't about losing someone but rather "never fully having had them in the way you needed."
Watershed Voice columnist Aundrea Sayrie is introducing a new series exploring how loss lives in everyday lives, and its impact on mental health. This month she will examine the "mother wound," and how a month she once looked forward to feels different, forcing her to "confront the distance" between who she is and who she wants to be.
Watershed Voice’s Aundrea Sayrie writes, “Black History Month is celebratory of Black achievement and existence, yes, but it is equally meant to continually sound the alarm on discrimination, and a means of advocating for justice. Applied pressure on the neck of oppression and erasure, a vehicle to ensure the truth isn't lost in the footnotes of history.” You can listen to Aundrea perform this piece via the SoundCloud player at the top of the article.
Watershed Voice columnist Aundrea Sayrie writes about credible threats to our community’s safety and the importance of addressing them correctly. "We cannot become numb to this."
Watershed Voice's Aundrea Sayrie kicks off Women's History Month with an original poem titled "To Every Woman."
Black History Month may be over but there's still plenty to learn and reflect upon, regardless of what month it is. Watershed Voice's Aundrea Sayrie tells the story of Dick Rowland and one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history.
Henrietta Duterte was a funeral home owner, philanthropist, and abolitionist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the first American woman to own a mortuary, and her business operated as a stop on the Underground Railroad.
James Weldon Johnson's legacy is eclectic as he moved with passion from one role to the next. He was an educator, a lawyer, an author, a civil rights activist, poet, and songwriter.
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