Intro
Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
Preface. What Lies Inside: Writing Myself Well
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Mental Health, Healing, and Wellness: An Intellectual History of Self-Care
Letters to Our Daughters: Narrative Mentoring and Reclaiming a History of Africana Yoga
Mental Health Maintenance: Stress and the Rationale for Studying Inner Peace
Healing Traditions: Traumatic Stress in the #Me Too Era
Historical Wellness: Resources for Applied Intellectual History
Book Outline. Regeneration: Telling Our Truths Backward, Inward, and Forward

A Note on Sources and Method
Part I Look Inward. Healing Traditions (A 1975 Portrait)
1 Yoga is Self-Possession
Definitions of Yoga and Meditation in Black Historical Context: Convergent and Divergent Cultural Practices
A Study of African and African American Yoga Traditions
Popular Styles of Yoga
On Meditation: Types of Mindfulness Practice
2 Managing Traumatic Stress
Defining Traumatic Stress: The Case for Africana Mindfulness
Kinds of Traumatic Events
Rituals for Recovery from Sexual Assault

Survival, Also Known as Continuous Traumatic Stress: Properly Naming a Black Women's Mental Health Crisis
Historical Trauma, the Limits of Self-Help, and the Tragic Inevitability of Struggle
Mental Health in Memoirs: The Africana Memoirs Database
Social Locations of Trauma: A Human Rights Framework
International Stress (Global)
National Stress (Macro)
Community Stress (Meso)
Personal Stress (Micro)
3 Medica, cura te ipsum-Physician, Heal Thyself: Meditation on a Fiftieth Birthday
The Beautiful: My Time in the Tower (2016)

The Ugly: Struggle for Wellness and Wellness for Struggle
The Past
The Present
The Future
The Healing: Wellness Education and Lifelong Learning
Certifications and Continuing Education (Wellness)
Anywhere Concerts
One-Minute Meditation, Lifelong Learning, and Global Mindfulness
Prayer: Morning Grace
Pajama Yoga
Exercising the Power of Antiviolent Self-Defense
Conclusion: Finding What Lies Inside (Clap for Yourself)
Part II Look Backward. Historical Wellness (Pre-1975)
4 Blue Zones for Black Women: Centenarians on Mind, Body, and Spirit

Case Studies of Black Women's Holistic Health: Centenarian Memoirs on Writing (Mind), Prayer (Spirit), and Exercise (Body)
Mind: Anna Julia Cooper (Age 105)
Meditation Traditions
Spirit: Dovey Roundtree (Age 104)
Prayer Traditions
Body: Ida Keeling (Age 105)
Exercise Traditions
Conclusion: Finding Joy, Creativity, and Peace in Elder Narratives
5 Weathering the Weary Blues: Enslavement, Jane Crow, and Migration
Harriet Jacobs: Reflecting on Slavery
The Beautiful: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The Ugly: The Tyranny of Lechery