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Balanced Black Girl

Feeling Lonely? How to Have Real Connection with Dr. Thema Bryant

Balanced Black Girl

She's So Lucky

Health & Fitness, #Shessolucky, Balancedblackgirl, Lesalfred, Balancedles

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

#276: Have you ever felt like you need to be “fixed” before you can let others in?

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Thema Bryant—psychologist, author, minister, and host of the Homecoming podcast—for a soulful conversation on healing relationships, starting with the most important one: your relationship with yourself.

Dr. Bryant shares how self-isolation can hold you back from growth and offers insights on how opening up to others is key to feeling truly healed.

We Also Talk About…

  • The balancing act of the healing process
  • The hidden risks of self-isolation
  • How to spot toxic patterns in romantic relationships
  • How emotional dependency can affect your friendships
  • How to identify what your relationship patterns for growth
  • How faith and mental health support can work together for healing


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production.

0:10.2

Thank you so much for tuning in.

0:12.8

Now, I have to say I have such an exciting episode for you today because I am interviewing one of my dream guest, Dr. Tama Bryant. So if you are not familiar with Dr. Tama's

0:24.7

work, you are in for such a treat. She is a licensed psychologist. She was a former president

0:30.9

of the American Psychological Association, an ordained minister, an accomplished author, and she is also

0:36.4

the host of the Homecoming podcast,

0:38.3

which is a podcast I have loved listened to for years and has been such a big part of my

0:43.3

healing journey.

0:44.8

And she and I talk so much about the importance of relationships, both our relationship with

0:49.1

self and our relationships with other people and how healing and nourishing they can be.

0:56.6

It feels like a hug and a therapy session all in one. So let's talk to talk to Tama. I know that you will love this conversation.

1:08.0

Welcome to the show, Dr. Tama. You've just been a dream guest for me for so long, so I'm so happy to have you.

1:14.0

Oh, thank you.

1:15.3

I'm so grateful to be here and appreciative of you creating this space.

1:20.5

And the way in which you do it is such a gift to us.

1:24.1

And so good to be with your community of listeners as well.

1:27.6

But we're so happy to have you. I mean, you do so much profound work in the space of healing

1:32.2

that I know has been very personally helpful to me. I'm sure helpful to people who are in our

1:37.0

community or if we have listeners who are just now meeting you, we'll find so much value in it

1:42.3

as well. So I really have to thank you for the work you do. You are welcome.

1:46.2

It's been a big push of mind to say it shouldn't be limited to the academy or the private

1:52.2

practice office, but just trying to share the information far and wide in the same way that you do

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