01/29/2024

How to Mind Your Own Business

Better idea: Focus on yourself

Do you often find yourself trying to solve problems for your friends and family? Draining your time, resources and energy to offer others help or advice?

If so, Yasin Bojang would like for you to slow down, mind your business — and consider how it might be affecting your mental health. "When you constantly intervene, you will likely have nothing left to give when hard situations present themselves."

Bojang is the co-founder of Home Girls Unite, a U.K.-based group that supports women from marginalized communities, particularly eldest daughters, who Bojang believes bear the burden of responsibility in immigrant households.

Please select this link to read the complete article from NPR.