Episode VII: "You Don't Have to Lie To Kick It"

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12/27/21 • 37 min

This week, Your Favorite Librarian defines and examines exactly what Community is and how readers can strengthen their understand on how to contribute to such. Broken up into three major elements: Foundation, Core, and Practice-- join Your Favorite Librarian for a jam-packed episode.
This episode is meant to inform readers on how individuality contributes to the foundation of community and personal stability. As readers discovery themselves with each or new titles, reading provides any reader refined insight on how to locate or participate in their respective circles.
From shared interests and culture, and just how participation looks in all variation-- readers will leave feeling empowered to seek the intimacy and curated energy of any community.
Readers' personal commitment to visibility and transparency also articulates the multiple and beautiful intersections that complete communities around the world. Before you finish this week's episode, check the paired reading selections.
"A Garden for Black Boys: Between the Stages of Soil and Stardust" by W.J. Lofton
"#InspiredbyaBlackWoman: Loved by a Black Femme" by Ali D Collins
"Please: Radical Self-Care for Wild Women of Color" by Black Girl Bliss
"#VeryBrave, #VeryBrave" by Nicole Byer
Aquaman Vol. 8 #57 (2020) by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Get ready for the mid-season special with Episode 8, to be released January 6, 2022.
You are not alone-- continue reading. There is a book out there for you.

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Episode VI: "At Your Best, You Are Loved"

With this episode, Your Favorite Librarian examines how to refine your journey to the highest version of yourself. Before getting started with this episode, check out this awesome reading selections.
"The Sisters are Alright: Changing the Broken Narratives of Black Women in America" by Tamara Winfrey Harris
"Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit" by Mary-Frances Winters
"Your Black Friend and Other Strangers" by Ben Passmore
"Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotion to Help Out Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive" by Marc Brackett, Ph.D.
As you define your terms and personal glossary, your definitions reflect how support and service looks for you. How you receive and react to support also illustrates how you value and define support in your life. Reading provides you tools, and insight, to examine, label, define and understand emotions.
This week's titles will provide an array of intersections and colorful narratives that will guide you along your healing and growth. Progress is not linear but each step is essential and contributes to a path of progression.
Enjoy this week's episode and titles! Remember, friends-- you are not alone. Whether at your best or your lowest, there is something for you. Continue reading!

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Episode VIII: Anxiety... Find You Something Safe to Do

This week, Your Favorite Librarian shares her personal stories navigating and battling anxiety. Before or after checking out Episode 8, check out this uplifting reading list, to guide you along.
"Persepolis: The Story of A Childhood" by Marjane Satrapi
"You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience" by Tarana Burke and Brene and Brown
"You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays" by Zora Neale Hurston
"100 Days Inside" by Madison Martin and Fionna M. Wright
Your Favorite Librarian defines what Generalized Anxiety Disorder is based off the DSM-5's guidance, shares tools to help readers navigate challenging and difficult emotions, and situations, and also provides real-life examples and tools of how to be your best self... with anixety.
From dancing to channel negative and anxious energy, engaging in laughter to escape from bouts of lowness, hiking to engage in a new environment, or mediating to detach, or reconnect... Reading can provide readers an opportunity to figure out what mental health tool or resource is best.
This Week's Honorable Mentions include:
"I Don't Want to Die Poor" by M. Arceneaux
"It's About Drama Time" by Arlan Hamilton
"Fear the Black Body" by Sabrina S.
You are not alone-- there is something for you. Continue reading!
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