Black Women Rising

Weaving ancestral wisdom with contemporary insight, Black Women Rising speaks directly to Black women’s lived realities of racial trauma, chronic stress, care fatigue, and resilience through a wholistic lens.

Filling a long-standing gap in the self-help and wellness market, Black Women Rising is a culturally grounded, deeply resonant guide created specifically for Black women seeking balance, purpose, and grounding in perilous times. This bold, African-centered book arrives at a moment of profound urgency. Informed by the authors’ expertise in African-centered social work and trauma-informed psychotherapy, each chapter brings to life one of the 18 Principles—rooted in Ma’at and the Nguzo Saba (Kwanzaa)—and closes with an action-oriented exercise readers can immediately apply.

Moving beyond reflection to action, this book offers clear pathways to healing and sustained liberation. Positioned at the intersection of race, gender, and mental health, the book meets a growing demand for self-care that is culturally intentional and affirming. With far-reaching impact in wellness, mental health, and social justice spaces, giving Black women a self-help book that sees and supports their capacity to rise and thrive individually and in community.

Black Women Rising positions healing as sacred and care as a powerful force for renewal and transformation, making it a timely, standout title in wellness, mental health, and cultural nonfiction.

Robin D. Stone, MA, LMHC-D, CPT, is a psychotherapist, poetry therapist, and wellness coach, in private practice in Manhattan and a longtime journalist. Stone engages the literary arts and other modalities to treat trauma for a clientele of mostly Black women, exploring systems and culture that affect their thinking and being. Her staff includes several counselors in training under her supervision. The author of No Secrets, No Lies: How Black Families Can Heal from Sexual Abuse and lead writer of the Essence book The Black Woman’s Guide to Healthy Living, Stone has written and edited for publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Essence, Health, and Entrepreneur magazines. Stone’s blog, The Color of Wellness, appears on PsychologyToday.com, and she contributes to Sisters/AARP online. A native Detroiter, Stone is a graduate of Michigan State University (Journalism), Goddard College (master’s in Health Arts & Sciences), and New York University (master’s in Counseling for Mental Health & Wellness). She lives in New York City and northern New Jersey with her husband, and together they have four amazing children, ages 43, 30, 19, and 17.

• Publisher: Amistad
  
• Publish Date: March 02, 2027
  
• Pages: 256
  
• Language: English
  
• Type: Hardcover
  
• EAN/UPC: 9780063446892
  
• Dimensions: 9 in H | 6 in W | 1 lb Wt
  
• BISAC Categories: Biography & Memoir, Spirituality & Religion, Politics, Self-Help, Family & Parenting