Here’s one more episode from one of the podcasts we’ve had the pleasure of joining over the past few months. 

In this episode, we joined forces with Celeste the Therapist and really dug deep on healing the Black community. Traumas, triggers, and even slavery came up on this one. Hard truths and healing revelations, y’all.

WHAT TO LISTEN FOR:

Therapy, religion and suffering [4:24]

• Struggling with depression in the church

• Long suffering, hellfire and brimstone as badges of honor

• The roots of Christianity and slavery

• The scarcity mindset

The turning point [7:13] 

• Personal therapy

• Being everything for everyone else 

• Realizing when your needs change

Black men and mental health [11:23]

• How black men have to show up in spaces 

• The idea that men have to be stoic 

• Using vices to cover up emotions

• Functioning but unable to hold weight

• Stuffing feelings away

• Racial trauma

• The tendency to suffer in silence 

Black women and mental health [16:11]

• People pleasing and anxiety

• Unlearning things as an adult

• Reading and learning different perspectives

• Physical manifestations of emotional pain

Black women in corporate America [27:28] 

• Watching your face and reactions as a black woman in corporate America

• Having conversations in the workplace about race 

• The importance of self-advocacy and articulation

Creating The Love Haze [30:38]

• A space to speak truth 

• Having conversations no one was having

• Guilt vs. shame

• Figuring out the art of transition

The struggle to begin [39:19]

• Making choices towards who you’re trying to become 

• Accepting fear and evolving from it

• Seeing yourself as something other than what you are currently

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:
Listen to Black Folk, song by Tank and The Bangas

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