Hi guys, welcome back to another episode of Skin Anarchy.

Today is a mindset episode, and I'm so excited about this episode because joining us today is a true expert in the field of so many different sub-disciplines that intersect with the idea of mindset and mental well-being and understanding what that really means for us in a day-to-day basis.

So without further ado, please welcome Dr. Tima Bryant, who is a psychologist. She's an author,

she's a professor, an artist, and a minister, and she's really leading the way in creating

healthy relationships, healing traumas, overcoming stress and oppression. Her books include

matters of the heart, homecoming, Reclaim Yourself,

The Homecoming Workbook, and the Anti-Racism Handbook, which are practical tools to shift your

mindset and uproot racism in your life and community. So welcome, Dr. Bryant. I'm so honored

to host you. Oh, you are. I am very, very grateful and excited to be with you on today.

No, I'm so excited.

And I really want to learn from you in this episode because there are so many things that you've touched upon in your work that not only do we not talk about, I think, as society, but like to get that expert opinion, you know, and to understand and navigate this, you know,

because we're so busy these days that nobody pauses to think about some of this stuff.

But I really want to start off by learning more about you and your journey because it's been

extraordinary. And I'd love to learn what got you into psychology and what made you want to go

in this direction with your life's work. Absolutely. So growing up primarily in Baltimore, Maryland, my dad was a pastor.

And so within our community, people were more likely to go speak with a minister than with

a therapist.

And so in addition to kind of like Sunday morning services, he would do pastoral counseling. And so people were often coming to

meet with him about life challenges. And they would also call our home. I say in the book Homecoming

that my first time working a crisis hotline was in my childhood home because people would just call

with their distress and it kind of didn't matter who answered the phone.

But I was also from very young, thought of as a very sensitive child. And when people would say that,

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