Focusing on our self-care can feel like a luxury we can't afford, but I challenge you to visualize this book as a how-to manuscript for healing. In Women of Color Talk: Psychological Narratives on Trauma & Depression, Dr. Clack has highlighted, with such dignity and grace, how Black women are suffering and that most of us are suffering alone and in shame. Allow the narratives, however traumatic, to ignite hope in you. Remembering if those women can heal, you can too because we are more alike than we are different and we are our sister's keeper.

Women of Color Talk is rich in authenticity and could serve as a new model for mental health care. Sisters, feel the pain and sit in it: Cry. Cuss. Grieve. Mourn. Dr. Clack reminds us that there is restoration and healing on the other side.

Dr. Yetta Young,
Founder of the Butterfly Confessions Movement
www.ButterflyConfessions.com