Mental Health, Trauma, and Therapy in the Black Community

Breaking the Silence is a powerful nonfiction book about mental health in the Black community, generational trauma, childhood wounds, and the path toward lasting emotional healing.

In many Black families and communities, pain is often endured in silence. Strength is praised, vulnerability is discouraged, and therapy is too often treated as weakness instead of wisdom. In Breaking the Silence, J. Carter Hale examines how trauma, mental health stigma, family dysfunction, and systemic pressure h...