Inspired by my own journey with mental health, I founded Girls Talk, our own safe space where we share, listen and support each other.

So get cozy and join me. Adjua Burr for some much-needed girls' talk.

Oh, Carmen, thank you so much for taking the time to be on the podcast.

It means so much.

Yes, thank you for inviting me.

You know, this podcast has always been a reflection of what our community really wants to talk about.

And we've had a lot of discussions around the subject of grief this season because of like a kind of direct response, I think,

from the community wanting to kind of discuss it and interpret it and pull it apart in

all its layers. And I know you know the many layers of grief. But yes. So first things first,

I would love it if you come Carmen, could introduce yourself to our

wonderful community.

Yeah, for sure.

So I'm Carmen Galvin.

I'm a social worker, a grief counselor, and a death dula.

And I'm the co-founder of Bipoc Death and Grief Talk, which is a community that we created

fully online and virtually during the pandemic to kind of support racialized folks

and queer folks around grief, death, and dying, and what that looks like specifically

for our communities.

So we've been doing this work for, it's going to be four years. Four years. Wow.

But yeah, I've been a social worker for 10 years and I've been doing counseling on an

office well for all of that time. So yeah. How did your social work lead you on to the

doula work? Oh, how did it not?

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