Heartbreak and Identity for Blacks: Who Am I Without This Relationship?

By Raji Kehinde

Heartbreak & Identity: Who Am I Without This Relationship? is a deeply personal and culturally grounded guide for
Black readers navigating love, loss, and self-discovery. This book explores the emotional, generational,
and societal layers of heartbreak, showing how identity can be lost, found, and reclaimed in the wake of love's endings.

Through reflective exercises, real-life storytelling vignettes, affirmations, and culturally rooted practices, readers will learn to: Understand how race and stereotypes shape love and heartbreak. Break generational cycles of mistrust, silence, and self-erasure. Reclaim self-love, boundaries, and emotional truth. Harness creativity, community, and cultural practices as tools for healing. Reimagine love as addition, not completion, and step confidently into a whole, unapologetic self.
This book is more than a guide-it is a journey to wholeness, a roadmap for loving oneself first, and
a call to redefine what Black love can look like for today and for generations to come. Whether you are healing from a recent heartbreak or seeking to understand how your past shapes your present relationships, this book offers both insight and hope, encouraging readers to embrace their identity, resilience, and freedom.
Inside you'll discover:
The science of how trauma and stress affect the Black brain, culturally aligned strategies for rest, recovery, and mental clarity, Daily practices to support brain detox, neuroplasticity, and focus, Insights on food, movement, and sleep as brain medicine, A vision for collective healing and cognitive liberation. Whether you're a student, parent, creative, professional, or caregiver, this book is your permission to pause, to breathe, and to begin again. This is not just brain science. This is brain freedom.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FPGBKYNW
• ISBN13: 9798263400620
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"