Being a Black Woman in a White Coat
Practicing medicine while Black and female comes with a particular kind of exhaustion that is hard to explain to people who have not lived it.
Mae Dianne Boykin
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Mae Dianne Boykin writes with the honesty of a woman who has lived every page. Lamentations of a Black Woman Physician is her testimony of divorce, disappointment, and the slow, deliberate work of trusting God with a broken heart. Mae is a physician, a mother, and a woman of faith who knows what it costs to keep believing when love has failed you more than once. Her memoir does not offer easy answers. It offers something better: an honest account of what it takes to heal, to wait on God's timing, and to stop settling for less than what you were made for. If you have ever prayed the same prayer through tears more times than you can count, this book was written for you.
ABOUT
About the Author
Mae Dianne Boykin
"I had to be true to me, to be what God has called me to be."
15YEARS
OF EXPERIENCE
Mae Dianne Boykin is a practicing physician who spent years pouring herself into a marriage that asked everything of her and gave little back. When that chapter of her life ended, she did not turn away from her faith. She turned toward it, harder than ever before. Mae writes as both a healer and a woman still being healed, bringing the same care she gives her patients to the readers who pick up her book. Her voice is direct, prayerful, and unafraid to name what hurts.
Mae Dianne Boykin
BOOK
About the Book
Lamentations of a Black Woman Physician follows one woman's path through a fifteen-year marriage that quietly became a place of loneliness, through the confusing hope and disappointment of the relationships that came after, and into a faith that refused to let her stay broken. Told through scripture, prayer, and unguarded memory, this memoir sits with grief long enough to be honest about it, then moves forward into the harder, more hopeful work of waiting on God rather than settling for whoever shows up next. It is a book for any woman who has had to rebuild her sense of worth from the ground up.
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What's Inside the Book
Each chapter of Lamentations of a Black Woman Physician moves through a different season of loss and recovery, anchored by scripture and hard-won reflection.
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Chapter Highlight 01
A Marriage Undone. Mae opens with the end of a fifteen-year marriage and the painful clarity that comes with finally naming what an emotionally abusive relationship had cost her.
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Chapter Highlight 02
Old Flames and New Hope: A chance reconnection during the early days of the pandemic reopens questions about love, timing, and whether the past deserves a second chance.
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Chapter Highlight 03
Waiting on the One. Through disappointment, prophecy, and prayer, Mae learns to stop chasing men who cannot see her worth and to trust that God is preparing someone who can.
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