What [therapy] looks like. You laugh, you cry, you have a therapist come in to give you some tools and exercises to do. We talk about our resource guide, and we direct the audience to it if they’re suffering. This is a place where you can heal, and we show what it looks like. Tracie and I are very vulnerable; there’s my personal stuff, and she shares personal things, and that’s what therapy looks like, right? It’s not some daunting, scary place. You’ve got to think about therapy like a relationship; there has to be a vibe. My therapist is Black, and she’s younger than me. I see myself in her. She gets my mind because she’s a Virgo. She knows how I think.
I’m big on accountability, because that’s what my student need. But I’ve got to be compassionate. If you’re not able to take certain classes because you’re kicked out all the time, you’re not just hurting on a daily basis – You’re hurt in the long run – Anthony Washington
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging”, as I know each of these pieces represents something
The day after an ill-fated second date, I called my little brother as I lay in bed, despondent, in my dingy college apartment. “I don’t have time to come home and do laundry today,” I said. “Oh, and I met someone.” My brother, Felix, listened quietly to my inventory of hesitations: She liked me more than I liked her. She wanted commitment. She lived around the block, and I really didn’t want to hurt her. A pause. My brother said, “You have time for one load. I’ll come get you.” His pragmatic, gentle love is just right. — Ione Madsen Hardy
When you become a certain age, zero fucks are given. This one line made me so happy because people will be people no matter what you do or who you are. How do you make progress? Keep moving forward.
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real-life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging”, as I know each of these pieces represents something
Black women also face specific obstacles when it comes to mental health and overall wellness. What have you learned from your therapy journey and the foundation’s work? The more research I did—and [looking at] my own sessions—I started thinking about us as a culture, because we have learned to normalize so much trauma since slavery—since slavery. That’s in our blood, that’s innately in us to be strong. We have to take the veil off of that for the strong Black woman. I understand why we needed that, because we’re always at the bottom of the totem pole, and we need to feel validated. That’s the thing about Black people: Joy is our freedom. We will always tap into that. But then people can take that and manipulate it. They think, Oh, a Black woman, she’s strong, she doesn’t need medicine. So she ends up dying in the emergency room or dying giving birth. It’s deep for us.
