‘Sit Down Or Your Body Will Sit You Down’  - MMCxchange https://mmcxchange.com/ Thu, 21 May 2026 08:49:08 -0400 en-US hourly 1 Baltimore Times RSS Hub ‘Sit Down Or Your Body Will Sit You Down’  https://mmcxchange.com/detail/sit-down-or-your-body-will-sit-you-down Mon, 04 May 2026 04:09:39 -0400 https://mmcxchange.com/detail/sit-down-or-your-body-will-sit-you-down ‘Sit Down Or Your Body Will Sit You Down’ 

Sandra Bempong will tell you plainly: she hit a wall. It was 2020. The pandemic had settled in. She had lost her mother-in-law. Work was relentless. And Sandra — a high-functioning Program Manager of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield’s Public Health and Community Impact Team — was managing all of it in silence. “I had reached a breaking point,” she said. “I had to step away from the job for six weeks.” She took short-term disability. Her doctor — a Black…]]>