8. Doing the Work with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford

The Secret Lives of Black Women

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🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Therapy is a staple in Charla and Lauren’s life. They use it as a way to not only deal with major life incidents, but everyday maintenance. Dr. Joy Harden Bradford knows that finding a mental health professional who speaks to the experiences of black women can be tough. That’s why she created the podcast Therapy for Black Girls and an online directory to find black therapists in your area. In this conversation, we dig into ways to dismantle the stigma of mental health particularly when it relates to black women and some accessible resources to find a therapist in your area. You can find more about The SLBW at https://www.instagram.com/theslbw/ Follow SLBW on Twitter and Instagram @theslbw Find Dr. Joy Harden Bradford @hellodrjoy on Twitter and Instagram This episode is sponsored by Credo Mobile (www.credo.com/SLOBW), Hug Me by Blume (text SECRET to 79-79-79), and Acuity (acuityscheduling.com/secretlives).

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0:00.0	I think that there is an added layer of feeling like can I fall apart in front of this sister who maybe looks like she has it altogether, right?
0:13.4	I always kind of liking it too, that closet in your house where you shove all the stuff
0:18.6	before guests come over, right? So you shoved all this stuff in this closet and now you're opening the door and all of that stuff falls out on the floor, right?
0:26.3	And so now we have to wade through all of that to kind of see, okay, where do we even start here?
0:33.0	Serraphy can be really helpful no matter what's going on in your life,
0:38.0	so there really isn't an issue that is too small to talk with the therapist about. I think it's really important to keep in
0:45.9	mind that a lot of why therapy is effective and successful for people is the
0:51.3	relationship that you actually have with the therapist.
0:54.0	This is the secret lives of black women. I'm Charla and I'm Lauren.
1:02.0	And today we're talking therapy a topic
1:07.5	that's very near and dear to both of us we've both been in therapy for quite a long time.
1:13.4	Quite a long time. And we are talking with the best person possible for us to talk to.
1:20.6	Certainly. Certainly, right?
1:22.1	Yeah, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, who's the
1:24.6	founder of Therapy for Black Girls. She's a licensed psychologist in the state of
1:29.1	Georgia and her therapy for Black Girls has a directory for women to find therapists in their state.
1:37.6	And you know normally you and I do a lot of like back and forth banter and share like a personal, but we're not going to do that today.
1:46.0	I don't want to do that today.
1:47.0	No, because this conversation felt vital and important and urgent.
1:51.0	So I feel like we should just get to it.
1:53.0	I agree. Let's do it.
1:54.0	Let's go to it.
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