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#BlackGirlHealing: “Caring For Our Bodies Is Revolutionary”

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#BlackGirlHealing: “Caring For Our Bodies Is Revolutionary”

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Sharon Watkins Jones

“When Black women walk, things change.” Proud Houstonian, Sharon Watkins Jones, knows this GirlTrek motto is pure truth. After losing an aunt to diabetes and her paternal grandmother to congestive heart failure, Jones realized just how important walking is to the health of her family and for the fate of our country. Here she shares with BlackDoctor.org how she became a walking revolutionary. 

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Self-care is revolutionary.  Word.

That GirlTrek motto speaks to me in my own language.  I’m that Sojourner Truth-quoting, Mary McLeod Bethune-loving sista who won’t submit my DNA to Ancestry.com for fear that my results won’t directly connect me to Harriet Tubman. I just gotta be related to a slave who resisted,…

Please read original article #BlackGirlHealing: “Caring For Our Bodies Is Revolutionary” posted on Healthy Black Girls on 22 August 2017 | 6:03 pm —

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