On WittedRoots.com, the Emotional Wellness category will highlight informed articles that will explore various aspects of emotional wellness, especially as it relates to millennial women of color.
How To Uplift Someone With No Strings Attached
All around me I see women doing their utmost best to support each other and themselves in every aspect of their lives. They are proudly assuming roles as feminists, becoming ‘lifestyle coaches’, wellness advisors, and so much more. This in…
How To Deal With Rejection And Overcome The Fear Of Rejection
Rejection is as common as a cold. Everyone has experienced it. If you have not, well, you are one lucky individual, and I need the details of how you achieved that. But if you are like most other individuals, like…
What Is Emotional Baggage: No, I’m Not On My Period!
Can you even begin to count how many times a man has reduced your fully rational emotions to you being on your period? Men, and sometimes even women, have this tendency of making you feel as if you’re not entitled…
Good And Bad Habits: How We Plan To Kick It Up A Notch
We are often made to think that how we are is always how we will be, but it’s obvious we haven’t heard about epigenetics. Or, how we can use behavior modification to change our habits and patterns. The truth is, if…
Creating A Safe Space To Celebrate Me
As women of color, we already face many unfair disadvantages. Whether we are faced with discrimination, unfair wages, or looked up on as most inferior or vulnerable. The hardest challenge that comes with all our disadvantages is that we are…
How To Deal With Losing A Best Friend?
As different stages of our lives go by, we are faced with several changes, both mental and physical. Transitioning from stage to stage, there are often difficult situations that we have to go through, many times on our own. We…
What Is Self Esteem And Strategies To Improve Self-Esteem
Tackling Those Inner Thoughts A few years ago, I attended a women’s conference in my hometown. During a breakout session at the conference, the host asked all the women to complete an exercise, and it consisted of us creating a…
Releasing People’s Expectations Of Who They Think You Are
Change And The Expectations That Come With It Here’s a truth that most of us weren’t really prepared for in the earlier stages of our lives: We are always changing. All the time, every single second of every day. What…
Losing Weight After Baby, The Expectations And Pressure
Society has so many expectations for moms: always breastfeed (ditch the bottle) but never breastfeed in public; always put your kids first, all your fun ends with your first child; go back to work … or … don’t go back…
Negative Effects Of Social Media On Your Mental Health
Yes, we get it — you’re attached to your phone. You’re probably reading this on your phone, and if you’re not, your phone is somewhere close by. That little device is a portal into a world of likes, swipes, shares,…