Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen

The Emotional Lives of Black Women Inger Burnett-Zeigler Paperback PSYCHOLOGY/Mental Health “Black women give and give and give to the point of emotional exhaustion. Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen lets us know how to break this unhealthy cycle by learning self-forgiveness, which through God’s help, leads to self-love and the power to say, ‘No, I come first in my life.’”—Mary J. Blige Black women are beautiful, intelligent, and capable—but mostly they embrace being strong. In Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen, clinical psychologist Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, praises Black women’s strength, while exploring how trauma and adversity have led to emotional pain and shaped how they walk through the world.The strength of Black women is intimately tied to their unacknowledged suffering. An estimated eight in ten have experienced some form of trauma, ranging from childhood abuse, domestic violence, pregnancy trauma, sexism and racism. When left unaddressed, this trauma can have a detrimental impact on me.