by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Jul 29, 2020
What’s it been like emotionally to be an African American woman in America? That’s a question asked of me frequently these days. It has been a constant deferment of emotions. An almost daily setting off of fires in my heart, building to an explosion that my mouth...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Jul 8, 2020
I woke up this morning with fear nagging at my heart and my gut. It started last night. I couldn’t sleep, which was curious because it had been a good day. I laid awake until 2am as the same difficult conversation I had earlier with my son played for the last time in...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | May 27, 2020
Mental health awareness is more than a week. My teenage son woke up a few weeks ago and said “You know who I am praying for? I am praying for the people who are dealing with depression and anxiety. I know how hard it was for me when I was depressed to be...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | May 6, 2020
Is it just me or has anybody else noticed that on any given day there is very little meaningful conversations going on? Before sheltering in you would walk out your door and see a neighbor and you would say, “Hi, how are you?” They reply, “Fine, how...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Apr 29, 2020
A good friend and colleague was telling me about some of the nastiness that she has been exposed to on social media during a time when many of us are finding more love and appreciation for those who have been traditionally overlooked or taken for granted. When she...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Apr 22, 2020
It happened the other day, I was on the phone with my sister. We talk several times a day during this time of grief, pandemic and my not feeling well. We are very close, but that is not to say that we don’t have our times of disagreement and conflict. Hey, we’re human...
