Protecting Black Women’s Mental Health In Corporate America

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Take your vacation or “staycation”
To protect her own mental health, Nyanue makes sure she takes her vacation time. “Don’t worry about people looking down on you. You need these breaks, especially today when there is no separation of work and life. Even if you can’t go anywhere, it just means you aren’t opening your laptop. Decide for you what self-care looks like. Sometimes, it’s literally laying on the couch with a book drinking a glass of wine.”