STRESS AND STRUGGLE: Self-care is especially important in the age of Black Lives Matter.

SELF-actualization (Psychology); SELF-realization; BLACK Lives Matter movement; SOCIAL justice; AFRICAN American social conditions

The article discusses the imprtance of self-care in the age of Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. Alicia Walters of California-based nonprofit Forward Together notes that self-care is a conversation in social justice circles that focuses on what people do individually to make sure they are okay, while psychotherapist Bedford Palmer II explains self-care as attending to the whole self and not just the at-work or representative self.