Black Motherhood & Mental Health: Voices 69 With Monique Dozier

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🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Mothers, in general, are experiencing pandemic-related isolation and stress; Black women, in particular, are in crisis. From access to fertility treatments and pregnancy support to delivery complications and postpartum health, disparities around race impact Black mothers throughout their lives. In our latest Voices episode, Meagan speaks with Monique Dozier, licensed therapist and founder of Journey to Genesis Mental Health Services. Monique shares the questions we should all be asking ourselves AND the specific actions we can take to stand hand-in-hand with communities of color. She also reminds us that educating children is an important step in creating a legacy of inclusivity, and shares some of the many joys of being a Black mother. We hope you’ll listen to this important episode.

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Learn more and connect with Monique Dozier at Journey to Genesis
Read more about the challenges facing black mothers: Birthing While Black: Examining America’s Black Maternal Health Crisis, The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Women of Color, Why COVID-19 is Hitting Black Women So Hard
Monique mentioned how great representation is in entertainment such as Ada Twist, Scientist and Waffles + Mochi
Listen to these related episodes: Loss, Hope & Healing: One Family’s Story Of Turning Grief Into Advocacy and Talking About Racism As A Family

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from
0:05.2	little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages
0:09.0	of life but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share
0:12.7	tips and encouragement and remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're
0:16.6	not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.
0:19.9	Welcome to the mom hour. Hi everyone and welcome to the mom hour. I'm Megan
0:26.3	Francis here with one of our monthly voices episodes where we bring you
0:30.1	thoughtful conversations with voices across the spectrum of motherhood. Before I
0:34.6	dive in today's interview I want to share with you a few statistics. Okay here's
0:38.8	one. The pre-term birth rate among black women is 50% higher than the rate
0:44.1	among all other women combined. Here's another one. The rates of pregnancy
0:49.2	related death for a black women over the age of 30 are 4 to 5 times higher
0:54.0	than their white peers and another. Black women are 27% more likely to
0:59.7	experience severe pregnancy complications than white women. During the
1:04.1	pandemic women of color have experienced mental health conditions at rates two to
1:08.1	three times higher than white women. I pulled those stats from the March of
1:11.3	Dimes website by the way and you can find the links at our show notes and the
1:15.5	March of Dimes goes on to state that these disparities cannot be explained by
1:19.2	differences in age or education. According to the latest CDC data maternal
1:24.6	mortality rates among black women with a completed college education or higher
1:28.9	were 1.6 times that of white women with less than a high school diploma. So what
1:35.6	is going on? Well there's a lot to unpack here and certainly more than we can do
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