Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Learning to BREATHE: Toward a Balanced Model of Black Women's Wellness; Balancing Strength and Vulnerability; Learning How to BREATHE: Toward a Model for Black Women's Mental Health; Balance-Engage in the purposeful repositioning of one's commitments such that all priorities are addressed; Reflection-Set aside time for contemplation and performing emotional and cognitive audits; Energy-Reinvigorate goals and set upon a path toward achieving them; Association-Create and maintain social networks that promote, affirm, and encourage wellness

Transparency-Actively avoid remaining silent about painful experiencesHealing-Look for ways to nurture wellness in self and others; Empowerment-Enlist one's own agency by accessing internal power sources and taking ownership of one's own wellness; Writing Balance: Book Outline in Three Sections; B-Balance; "Sisters on Sisters: Inner Peace from the Black Woman Mental Health Professional Perspective," Kanika Bell; R-Reflection; "Travel Diaries: Excursions for Balance, Reflection, Healing, and Empowerment," Kami J. Anderson

"Don't Go Back to Sleep: Increasing Well-Being through Contemplative Practice," Veta GolerE-Energy; "My Body Is a Vehicle: Narratives of Black Women Holistic Leaders on Spiritual Development, Mental Healing, and Body Nurturing," Rachel Panton; A-Association; "Black Women's Sexuality and Relationships: Embracing Self-Love through BREATHE-ing," Qiana M. Cutts; "Selfies, Subtweets, & Suicide: Social Media as Mediator and Agitator of Mental Health for Black Women," Joy Bradford; T-Transparency; "When the Bough Breaks: The StrongBlackWoman and the Embodiment of Stress," Chanequa Walker-Barnes

"Representation of Black Women's Mental Illness in HTGAWM and Being Mary Jane," Nsenga Burton"Looking through the Window: Black Women's Perspectives on Mental Health and Self-Care," Maudry-Beverley Lashley, Vanessa Marshall, and TyWanda McLaurin-Jones; H-Healing; "Transformative Mental Health for African American Women: Health Policy Considerations," Daniel E. Dawes and Kisha Braithwaite Holden; "Black Feminist Therapy as a Wellness Tool," Lani V. Jones and Beverly Guy-Sheftall; E-Empowerment

"Love Lessons: Black Women Teaching Black Girls to Love," Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Ayo Gathing, and Alero Afejuku"From Worthless to Wellness: Self-Worth, Power, and Creative Survival in Memoirs of Sexual Assault," Stephanie Y. Evans; Conclusion: Exploring the Complexities of Health, Wellness, and Peace; Foreword: Linda Blount, President, Black Women's Health Initiative; "Afterword: In and Out of Our Right Minds: The Mental Health of African American Women," Diane R. Brown and Verna M. Keith, eds.; Notes; References; Part I: Balancing Vulnerability