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For Black Women Only: A Complete Guide to Successful Life-Style Change, Health, Wealth, Love, and Happiness

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For Black Women Only was one of the earliest books to emerge focusing on specific issues of self-esteem and the African American woman. Through her practice, Dr. Igrid D. Hicks encountered a variety of women with surprisingly similar elements: serious traumas, crisis, and abuses. Dr. Hicks realized that these soul-defeating experiences contributed to a host of ailments including fatigue, depression, and physical illness. In her book, Hicks uses real lives to engage readers, and illustrate how common sense advice and self-awareness helps raise self-esteem and empowers women to achieve personal success and happiness.

While other authors such as Iyanla Vanzant, Grace Cornish and Anita Bunkley have subsequently taken up the banners of personal responsibility, self-esteem and empowerment, For Black Women Only is the grand-mother of self-help books for sisters, and remains a invaluable contribution to a community of women and a literary genre.

What a tremendous disappointment! Resorting to racial stereotypes isn't doing our people any favors. A helping book directed to ANY individuals, regardless of color, might just help lift us up, but this one rely's on the cliche of being a vistim. That's not empowerment.