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10/02/2024

It is more important than ever to vote in this election. There has not in my lifetime been a more concentrated effort to remove the rights of marginalized people than what we are looking at now. The poor, the elderly, women, black people, brown people, transgender people, LGBQIA people, children, education, freedom of worship, environmental protections, housing protections, DEI, your right to privacy and to educated mental and physical health care. This is the time, and this is the election. 'srights

02/14/2024

Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller was born in Monrovia, Liberia, the paternal grandson of an enslaved African, that purchased his families freedom and went back to Liberia. Dr. Fuller returned to the US at the age of 17 to attend Livingstone College in NC, a historically black college, he received his BA in 1893, he continued his studies eventually graduating from Boston University with an MD at the age of 25, in 1897.
Later in his career, he was selected to work with Alois Alzheimer at the University of Munich. He made the discovery that dementia was a biological not mental disease, that advanced the research of Alzheimer's disease, years before Alois Alzheimer, but was not credited in his lifetime. Remember Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller this black history month.

02/07/2024

Aside from being one of my favorite authors in my 20s, Bebe Moore Campbell was a tireless mental health advocate prior to her death in 2006. Bebe had a close relationship to the stigma and lack of sufficient access African Americans face when seeking care for mental health issues. As a result she helped to found the NAMI chapter in urban Los Angeles.
She wrote about the struggle to remove the stigma and barriers to efficient and effective care as a result of dealing with her daughter's mental health battle. Bebe's daughter is Maia Campbell, she was an actress in the 90s.

01/31/2024

You hear people repeat that if relationships are not working out, than you are the problem, because you are the constant in the scenarios. We are all the center of our own lives and therefore impact the people, and situations that are in them. However that does not always mean you are the PROBLEM. What it could mean is that you have allowed, tolerated, accepted, people pleased, and engaged in relationships without boundaries. When you are in relationship in any of these ways, that relationship has a shelf-life. The people who have benefited from that, will ultimately leave if you are no longer acquiescing in the same way. Do you need to heal and learn to navigate relationships differently....yes! Does that always make you the "problem".......no!

01/24/2024

Negative self-talk is a hallmark of so many mental health and emotional concerns. It can be present with anxiety, depression, trauma, BPD, Bipolar Disorder, self-esteem issues, self-confidence issues, grief, and many more. It is so prevalent that we begin to believe it is coming from outside of us. The bad news is, it can be persistent and chronic. The good news is our brain has neuroplasticity. Which means you can create new self-talk that is more affirming and reality-based.

01/17/2024

Our feelings are important to feel, to identify, to express and to validate. We also have to recognize that our feelings are not always reliable due to subjective factors. If we have experienced trauma, have insecure attachment, low self-worth or esteem, anxiety as well as other impacting factors, using just our feelings for decisions may not be the best course of action. In other words "Just because I feel a way does not mean it is a way". Taking a moment to check in for present moment reality will help, because sometimes when we are triggered are feelings are pulling us to the past. Sometimes we need to 'Fact check our feelings'.

01/10/2024

I often hear clients say " I feel like I have taken two steps forward and ten steps back". Although I understand how frustrating it is to slip into old patterns of behavior, that is not backward motion. Healing is forward. When you learn to operate differently, that is forward movement. The knowledge is there, even if we have not perfected the ex*****on consistently. HEAL ANYWAY!!!

01/03/2024

The healing journey is filled with pitfalls, pauses, barriers, and it has no timeline. The path is not linear and it is not always smooth, but it is worth it.

01/01/2024