We begin our 3rd season journey into learning and uncovering as much as we can about our truthful past with RedLining - a practice that purposely maintained segregation through discrimination in lending. We discuss its racist history, how it promoted both segregation and the wealth gap, and the continued forms it takes even today.

Just us Shrinks having an After Hours discussion about the lack of actual American History in our prior education - trying to come to terms with our whitewashed understanding of so many things, on so many levels.

The session in which we speak once again with Nurah Muhammad (Actionism: Sister Nurah Muhammad), who lives and works in Camden, NJ. For this session we reached out to get Sister Nurah's take on the changes in the Camden Police Department, recently touted as a successful model of community  policing. She offered her perspective on what's working, what isn't, and what still needs improvement.

As we bring our 2nd year of podcasting to a close and begin a new 'season' we think about hope. In this session we explore hopefulness: where we look for and find it, how we highlight it, and how to share it. It's been a rough year - we're hopeful the next one will be better.

The session in which we discuss the increasing amount that political thoughts and concerns have permeated therapy sessions since 2016. In the past, politics did not enter therapy in the same ways that it seems to now.  In this session, we talk about politics in therapy and how it has changed the way we manage our therapeutic relationships.

The session in which we speak with Dr. Phil Fizur, a clinical psychologist in the department of Behavioral Medicine at Cooper University Healthcare in Camden, NJ. Dr. Fizur's day-to-day work involves patient care at Cooper's Urban Health Institute, focusing on providing healthcare to Camden's underserved populations. In addition, since the pandemic hit, he is also dealing with the traumatic impact of COVID19 on patients and providers.

We haven't been in person together in almost 6 months now and the title of this Shrinks After Hours episode perhaps, in part, reflects that fact. Loneliness is experienced very differently by different people and in this particular episode we were reflecting upon that with Allison Gibbs, LCSW, of Therapy Concierge, LLC.

Not too many bonuses in 2020 but here's one - a bonus episode! We talked to Director of the Philadelphia Storytelling Project, Mark Lyons, on this week's main episode. He mentioned a book he helped to edit and translate by a young woman who fled alone to the United States when she was 14. In this bonus episode, Mark reads a powerful excerpt from the book, Dreams and Nightmares/Sueños y Pesadillas by Liliana Velásquez.

The session in which we talk to Mark Lyons about the power of stories to create social change. As an author, and director of the Philadelphia Storytelling Project, Mark has worked with youth and adults to create audio stories about their lives. He has worked with inner-city youth using audio stories to improve literacy; with immigrants to document their dreams, barriers and determination, and with veterans who have found a way out of homelessness.

The session in which we meet Samuel Reed III, aka Reed, and Ismael Jimenez to talk about education activism. Reed and Ismael are two passionate and dedicated educators who are core members of the Teacher Action Group (tagphilly.org). Ismael recently spearheaded the founding of the Philly Hub for Liberatory Academics (phlaed.org) while Reed now focuses most on being a teacherpreneur and helping to promote economic and financial empowerment. Both believe in education as a tool of social change and liberation.