It was a pleasure to have Jacques Armstrong at our first Women’s Wellbeing Workshop last weekend. We want to thank all in attendance and hope that you all enjoyed the powerful words of encouragement as much as we did. Mental Health is the first step to the physical and spiritual health that extends to all other areas of our lives. The Women’s well-being workshop was extremely successful, and we will be doing it again soon.
About the Poet & Author
Jacquese Armstrong, author of Birthing Yourself Naturally: Motivational Reflections on a Mental Health Journey (2022) and Blues Legacy (Broadside Lotus Press, 2019), was the recipient of the 2019 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award and 2015 Ambassador Award from the State of New Jersey Governor’s Council on Mental Health Stigma for promoting wellness and recovery and reducing stigma through the arts. Jacquese is a Black Fire—This Time Anthology Summer Fellow. She has been a cast member of TMI Project’s storytelling performances Black Stories Matter: Every Word Spoken and Alone Together stories of COVID-19 in quarantine. Her work has been published in midnight & indigo, Ourselves Black, Stellium and others.
