The summer is already a time for fun, adventure, and even exposure. Why not make this summer one where you allow yourself to be seen? 

By practicing vulnerability, you allow space for your needs to get met, more intimacy, and more peace by showing up as your true self. Make this the summer you stop hiding by opening up to new practices, focused on light, freedom, and whimsy.

In this episode:

• We explore how allowing yourself to be seen helps you build a life you love
• Areas to practice more vulnerability: in your joy, your finances, your space, your body, in pleasure and in your love
• Practical suggestions, both big and small, to help you practice living seen
• Reminders to encourage you along the way

I look forward to what Summer 2026 has in store for us, and I hope it leaves you feeling a lot more seen, heard, energized, and hopeful. Be sure to subscribe to stay on the path with me 🤎

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• ⁠Joy with Jessica Vickers, LMFT⁠
• ⁠Body Care with Herani Argoe, LPC⁠
• ⁠Rest with Katara McCarty⁠
• ⁠Friendship with Joi Britt, LCSW⁠
• ⁠Boundaries with Dr. Ayanna Abrams⁠

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to the black girl who is opening her eyes to how the mother's wound has impacted you, I see you.

A few weeks ago, we discussed understanding the mother wound, and now, we’re unpacking what it actually looks like to recognize, heal from, and grow beyond the mother wound.

We talk:

• The big and small way the mother wound shows up in our relationships
• The roles we unconsciously take on in relationships
• What keeps us stuck in unhelpful patterns
• How we can slowly wake up to knew ways of relating that helps improve our relationships

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Find suggested readings from the podcast here. For those who identify as motherless daughters, please see the work of Hope Edelman. 

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are you hiding in your friendships?

we don’t always focus on our friendships, but they are just as much a site of healing and intimacy as any other relationship, sometimes more. 

Yet, we often find ourselves showing up in friendships, in the same protective ways we do in other relationships: hiding our true selves, silencing our voice, shrinking, and ultimately resisting the very practices that help us feel seen.

In this episode, licensed therapist and friendship-focused therapist Joi Britt, LCSW joins me to talk about the vulnerability of friendships. Joi Britt, LCSW is the owner of Life Intentionally Psychotherapy Services where she mostly works with women of color to help them live on purpose and with purpose. In addition to individual therapy Joi provides Friendship Coaching based on her French Fry Friendship Theory®.

We talk:

• The importance of pouring into your friendships
• Why we sometimes struggle to feel seen in friendships
• The messy side of practicing vulnerability with our friends
• Healing from and growing after friendship loss
• How to grow your capacity to see and be seen in friendship

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to the black girl who is living and healing from a mother wound, I see you.

If you’ve ever felt hurt, let down, or even harmed by any person who served in a mothering role to you, your pain is valid. So often, so many of us face these experiences, but are left feeling alone because of the pressure to see the Mother as a faultless, blameless entity. 

Though everyone deserves grace, you also deserve to be radically honest about what you experienced, what happened, and what did not happen. 

This one is for the black girl who ever needed to be believed, to be heard, to be understood when it came to her experiences in a painful mother-daughter dynamic, but was instead met with concessions and dismissals.

This one is for the black girl who ever told her truth, only to be met with, “but that’s your mom.”

This is especially for the black girl whose love for her mother is at constant war with the pain you feel as a result of loving her. 

I see you, and I hope this episode helps you feel safe enough to explore your pain, hold space for your compassion, and open doors to the healing you need and deserve. 

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To the black girls who struggle with being still, who feel like resting is failure, and who long to finally feel like they can just breathe, I see you.

In our last episode for April’s The Vulnerability of Something New series, we take a deep look at the vulnerability of rest, releasing, and what many of us black women know affectionately as exhaling. Joining me is wellness tech founder and life coach Katara McCarty, who bravely launched the Exhale App, a mindfulness and breathwork app for and by black women, in order to help us heal through reconnecting with our breath.

Katara and I get cozy and discuss:

• The very real legacy of harm that divorced black women from rest as a healing practice
• Why she fights to keep her app for and by us, centering the needs of black women
• The gifts offered to us when we return to the breath
• Why we no longer have to “wait to exhale”
• And small breath-focused steps to help us make a big shift in our well-being

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Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is tell the truth of your story.

If you’ve ever gotten lost in a book, or found yourself pouring over pages in your journal, we see you. So many of us struggled to make sense of our pasts or find safe spaces to process our experiences, and we’ve found our way through literature. 

In this episode, we’re sitting down with the pioneering author and licensed clinical social worker, Emely Rumble, LCSW to explore the power of a practice we all know but didn’t have a name for: bibliotherapy.

In this episode, we explore

• How we can use books, writing, and music as paths to feeling, not avoidance of our emotions
• Repairing your relationship with stories if we were taught to disown them
• Recommendations of stories and practices to help bring bibliotherapy to life

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We say we want joy, but sometimes when joy finds us, we hide from it.

In our next episode of the #VulnerabilityofSomethingNew series, we’re getting real about joy: sometimes joy and other pleasant emotions are scary. Many forms of hiding are designed to help us avoid disappointment, and resisting joy can be one of them. Yet, we can learn the art of opening our hearts to joy, fun, and pleasure, which can help us grow our capacity for healing. 

In this episode, we explore joy as a vulnerability practice with Jessica Vickers, LMFT, PMH-C, EMDR to discuss all things joy and being seen:

• Why we hide from the joy of the things we say we want most
• How allowing joy and hope help us feel seen
• How allowing painful emotions open us up to experience the pleasant ones
• How to slowly, but surely repair your relationship with joy
• How to create, find, and indulge in joy, right here and right now

Jessica Vickers is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Counselor, and a proud Disney Adult. She owns her private practice & specializes in working with women of color and women on their motherhood journeys. Jessica founded The Happiest Healers Club for mental health practitioners who choose to network joyfully. She has been featured in SF Gate as "The Defender of Disney Adults" and aims to bring joy and healing to others both online and IRL.

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• Website: https://www.jessicavickersmft.com/ 
• Instagram: @jessicavickersmft 
• Happiest Healers Club

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Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is walk away.

Too many of us have been hurt by systems that promise to care for us, much like spiritual and religious institutions. For black women, it can look like “big T” traumas like physical or financial harm and control, and it can also look like “little T” traumas like psychological and emotional abuse. From constant guilt tripping, to learning harmful rhetoric about our minds and bodies, we sometimes look up too late, only to notice the leaders we loved were hurting us in return.

To help us unpack our journey out of spiritual abuse, we’re joined by Dr. Karis McClammy, an Atlanta-based psychologist with expertise at the intersection of Spiritual/Religious and Relational trauma. We tackle:

• Recognizing signs of religious and spiritual trauma
• The vulnerability of walking away from harmful spaces when we called them home
• The tension between needing others and trusting yourself
• Rebuilding after leaving cults, abusive religious and spiritual spaces, and other harmful communities
• How institutional harm and relational harm meet in the middle
• Repairing your relationship with yourself after walking away
• Taking the pen to explore and define your own relationship with spirituality or religion

This month’s theme is the vulnerability of something new. We’re exploring the new ways we face and grow through common (or not so common) problems. Stay tuned for more on joy, new ways to heal, and facing the past with courage. 

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To the black girl who is in the season she always hoped for, but it doesn’t feel how you expected, I see you.

Healing isn’t always flowers and rainbows. Sometimes, even when we get exactly what we hoped, wished, and prayed for, we still find ourselves feeling uncomfortable. In healing, we might still get triggered, feel anxiety, and go through our highs and lows.

It’s not that healing isn’t possible. The truth is: healing is not about the absence of discomfort or challenges, it’s about growing the capacity to hold the discomfort that comes with much of what we want.

Connection, success, being seen—all those things can feel just as anxiety-provoking as the things we don’t want (and sometimes more!). In those seasons of “finally”, it’s truly that we get to use all the tools, skills, and insights we developed during the storm. 

In this episode, we’ll discuss:

• The surprising truths about healing
• How to reframe our expectations of what our “seasons in bloom” might feel like
• How to stay grounded when things get hard, even in seasons of blooming and healing
• Why embracing the inevitable ups and downs of life actually help us feel joy

Be sure to listen to & meditate on all episodes this month as a blueprint for your season in bloom 🤎

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To the black girl who is in the gap between where you started, and where you hope to go, I see you.

We don’t talk enough about waiting—the moments in the middle where we don’t know when the seeds we’ve planted will actually bloom. This is where we get antsy, frustrated, and sometimes, where we decide to give up completely.

I’ve been there so many times, and, when I’ve approached seasons of waiting as seasons of opportunity, it’s made so much of a difference. We’ll discuss how we can show up differently, and vulnerably, in seasons of waiting, including:

• How waiting is an active process
• How waiting is often intertwined with both grief and hope
• Why seasons of waiting tempt us to quit on our dreams, but how we can use it to lean in to more fully create our dreams instead
• How to wait in ways that honor both where you are, and where you are going
  

Stay tuned for all episodes this month as we create a blueprint for your season in bloom 🤎

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