High normal blood pressure and racism

I dabbled in acupuncture and meditation and I briefly changed my eating habits, but the reality was that I was too busy trying to start over after a 20-year marriage and figured I would get around to it. As long as my blood pressure danced the line of “high normal” without crossing over, I wasn’t too worried. I ended up pushing myself harder in my 40s than I ever had in my life, as I spent a significant amount of time in Boston for work, despite residing on a barrier island off the coast of Maine, I was parenting a pre-teen (then teenager) — and all while growing this blog into a full-blown business, which would include travel for speaking engagements. In the mix of juggling motherhood and work, I had an adult son who would marry and have his own child, while I was trying to fit in time for myself that I had never had as a result of marrying early and having my son at 19. <a href="https://medium.com/@blackgirlinmain/high-normal-blood-pressure-and-racism-838c60e0cc34">Read More</a>