Tag: health

  • Mental health is foundational to women & girls’ empowerment

    Women, especially those from marginalized communities, bear the brunt of many of our world’s greatest challenges. These stressors often contribute to vicious cycles that hinder women from changing her circumstances and impact her mental health. Within current approaches to women’s empowerment mental health does not have a clear role. Until now.   New research released today…

  • How to Reclaim Your Emotional Health

    “It took a lot to come here today,” says Janelle, a forty-one-year-old nurse who sits opposite me in a small conference room. This morning she and four others joined me for coffee to talk about major changes in their lives. A digital tape recorder sits in the center of the table beside a tray of…