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Rest & Heal in Chatham focuses on women wellness packages
Feb. 21, 2021
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Various healing and caring packages curated by Rest & Heal in Chatham.Photos by Josephine SchieleShow MoreShow Less
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Anna White’s new business couldn’t have come at a better moment. Designed to help women recuperate from a tough time, Rest & Heal in Chatham offers curated care packages. The recommended packages include feel-good indulgences like an alpaca wrap, a robe, a candle, a personal note and a helpful book themed to ease someone through grief, heartbreak, illness or the challenges of being a new mother. White launched this business hoping to use what she learned through her own illness to help others.
I have a confession to make I cringe every time I hear the word, “crazy”. My confidence plummets to the soles of my shoes. A wave of shame overtakes me. I am whisked back in time to the behavioral health unit:
Danei Edelen.
As you walk off the psych ward, you think, “I guess I am one of the crazies now”.
As a woman, I felt neutered.
Who could love somebody like me?
I psychologically wore a mantle of shame everywhere, apologizing for taking up space and breathing air.”
The power of stigma
As Terri Cheney writes in
Modern Madness: An Owner’s Manual, stigma can be deadly. “Self-doubt is poisonous – but when it spirals down into self-stigma, it can be deadly. Whole organizations are devoted to fighting stigma, but its very hard to fight our own selves…. When people question my bipolar disorder, they trample my reality. Even when I know they’re wrong, it sets off a chain reaction of confusion in me. My self-confidence begins to crumble as I question my own