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21 Ways to Find a Therapist
21 Ways to Find a Therapist

While you wait for Iyanla to return your call, here are 21 ways to find someone to help you Electric Slide through your emotions.

#MentalHealthAwareness: 12 Books on Mental and Emotional Health by Blackety Black Folks
#MentalHealthAwareness: 12 Books on Mental and Emotional Health by Blackety Black Folks

We need every tool we can gather for the Great War against Spiritual Ashiness.

So I Just Started Leading Mental Health First Aid Trainings in Spanish
So I Just Started Leading Mental Health First Aid Trainings in Spanish

Each grammatical stumble feels like an affront to Janet Jackson and a failure as a Panamanian grandchild.

19 Extraordinary Wellness Resources
19 Extraordinary Wellness Resources

Here are a few extraordinary wellness resources to help you in the battle against spiritual ashiness.

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Mental Health Monday #65: Michelle Williams on battling depression while engaged + tools for healing, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.

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Mental Health Monday #64: Black Mental Health on TV + strategies for coping and healing, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.

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Mental Health Monday #63: Orlando Brown head to rehab + Latinx wellness, helping folks during panic attacks, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.

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Mental Health Monday #62: Chance's Investment in Chicago Wellness + Kofi Siriboe's "Jump," faith + therapy, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.

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Mental Health Monday #61: Wayne Brady's Breakdown & Recovery plus Black folks & Alzheimer's, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.

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Mental Health Monday #60: Taraji's Mental Health Org + guided meditations, surviving grief, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.

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#MentalHealthAwareness - Rambling My Way Toward Safe Spaces

“…mental health is not anything to laugh at. It is to be taken seriously, never to be minimized.”

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Mental Health Monday #59: Why Miss Tina took young Solange & Beyoncé to counseling + the power of dance and movement as therapy, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.

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Mental Health Monday #58: NYC 1st Lady Chirlane McCray's "Brothers Thrive" Wellness Initiative + healthy co-parenting with Jada Pinkett-Smith, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.

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Mental Health Monday #57: Playwright Donja Love-Nicholas on Tending to Self-Care While Producing a Trilogy of Black-Ass Plays

This most honest thing I can tell you is that I know this is work not mine. I was just blessed enough to be the vessel chosen to tell these stories.

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#StressAwareness: When Carbs and Lack of Exercise Isn't the Cause of Your Diabetes

Diabetes ain’t no punk bitch, especially when it’s associated with stress.

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#StressAwareness: Therapy is Always Good for the Soul

I am here to tell you that there is no shame in therapy.

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Mental Health Monday #56: Author George M. Johnson on Tending to His Self-Care While Chasing a Book Deal

Now, when I wake up, I don't immediately jump into the day, I just lay there and get my thoughts together.

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Mental Health Monday #55: Junot Díaz on Childhood Trauma + The Tragedy of Devonte Hart + Bow Wow, Tyrese, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.

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Mental Health Monday #54: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's journey with depression + activist struggles, praying away mental illness, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.

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Mental Health Monday #53: Stress management advice from SZA's mom + parenting while black, quitting heroin, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.

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Mental Health Monday #52: Watching 'Black Panther' as self-care, dealing with toxic people, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life

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Mental Health Monday #51: Keri Hilson's depression and career hiatus + axing toxic relatives, Oprah on childhood trauma, etc.
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Mental Health Monday #50: Letitia Wright on faith and depression + Black counselors, mental illness and mass shootings, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.

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Mental Health Monday #49: Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan tweets about depression + art therapy, arming teachers, etc.

Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.

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Mental Health Monday #48: Hari Ziyad on "ongoing traumatic stress disorder" + a mental health app for Black folks, etc.

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Mental Health Monday #47: Giving "the talk," Living with Alzheimer's, the downside of being Black & resilient, etc.

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Mental Health Monday #46: Gucci Mane's sobriety, the mental impact of activism, healing via therapy, etc.
Mental Health Monday #45: NFL star Brandon Marshall's borderline personality disorder, healing after bullying, toxic self-talk, etc.

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Mental Health Monday #44: Serena's postpartum challenges, getting a new therapist, hip-hop coloring books, etc.

Our mental health episodes

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Let's Go To Therapy (Feat. Tonja Renée Stidhum & Shamira Ibrahim)
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Holiday Happiness (feat. Quinn Gee of Magnolia Mental Health)
Hello Brooklyn (feat. Demetria Lucas D'Oyley)
The Afterparty: "Veterans Day" (Feat. Nickolas Gaines)
Episode 11: "You Good, Man?" (feat. Nickolas Gaines)
Episode 2: “We Fall Down” (featuring Nickolas Gaines)