Weaving ancestral wisdom with contemporary insight, Black Women Rising is a bold, African-centered self-care guide created for Black women seeking balance, purpose, and grounding in perilous times.

It speaks to lived realities too often overlooked: racial trauma that trails you from headlines to job to home, stress that settles into your shoulders, care fatigue that comes from holding up everyone else. If you’ve been carrying a lot, this book is for you.

Each chapter brings to life one of eighteen principles inspired by the seven virtues of Ma’at and the Nguzo Saba, Kwanzaa’s seven guiding principles, and closes with an exercise you can apply right away. Reflection becomes action, and insights become rituals of healing and liberation that link your personal well-being to the collective pursuit of justice.

Drawing on their expertise in African-centered social work and trauma-informed psychotherapy, Dr. Rhonda Wilbon and Robin D. Stone fill a long-standing gap with wholistic self-care that is culturally intentional and affirming. Positioned where race, gender, and mental health meet, their guide sees and supports Black women’s capacity to grow and thrive individually and in community.

Black Women Rising claims healing as sacred and care as a powerful force for renewal and transformation. A timely, joyful standout in wellness, mental health, and cultural nonfiction, it is meant to be savored on your own and shared with every woman rising beside you.