Chapter 2: The Art of Letting Go
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Published:2020
Haile Bennett, 2020. "The Art of Letting Go", A Second Helping of Gumbo for the Soul: More Liberating Stories and Memories to Inspire Females of Color, Michelle Frazier Trotman Scott, Nicole McZeal Walters, Jemimah L. Young, Donna Y. Ford
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Have you ever died and come back to life? Has your heart struggled to pump life into you while you walk into work? Have you operated on autopilot for months or years on end without you or the people around you even noticing? Maybe you were like me shuffling from meeting to meeting every day exhausted, but pushing through the grind. Leaving doctor appointments still unclear as to why you always felt terrible and lifeless despite how hard you tried to fight it. Maybe you realized that all the spaces and places you found yourself in felt more like prisons than sanctuaries.
