Friends, friendship, and healing, with Dr Joy Harden Bradford
Power Hour
Adrienne Herbert
4.8 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford is a Licensed Psychologist and the host of the wildly popular, award-winning mental health podcast Therapy for Black Girls. Her work focuses on making mental health topics more relevant and accessible for Black women, and she delights in using pop culture to illustrate psychological concepts.
Named by Glamour as a Game Changer for her work in the mental health field, her work has been featured in Essence, Oprah Daily, The New York Times, HuffPost, Black Enterprise, and Women’s Health.
Dr Joy’s new book Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community is out late June and available online and in stores.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author. |
| 0:10.0 | Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches, |
| 0:16.4 | change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what motivates |
| 0:22.4 | them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate and |
| 0:28.7 | inspire, so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional |
| 0:33.6 | goals. Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. |
| 0:39.6 | Today I'm joined by clinical psychologist and author of Sisterhood Heels, Dr. Joy Harden |
| 0:45.0 | Bradford. |
| 0:46.2 | Dr. Joy is an award-winning podcast host and the Huffington Post described her as the |
| 0:51.0 | psychologist who is changing the face of therapy for black women. Dr. Joy, |
| 0:55.6 | thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to chat with you. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, firstly, for any of my listeners who don't know about you, your incredible work, your podcast, |
| 1:07.2 | your book, I think the first place I'd love to start is talking about understanding more |
| 1:12.9 | about your work specifically around group therapy and the power of gathering, community, |
| 1:19.6 | connection. What is it about a group of people, a group of women being together that is so |
| 1:25.6 | powerful when it comes to therapy and healing. |
| 1:29.6 | Oh, that's a great starting question. |
| 1:31.5 | I appreciate that. |
| 1:33.0 | You know, so I think before I was even trained as a psychologist, I think there was something |
| 1:37.7 | about a gathering of women that always felt very special to me. |
| 1:42.3 | My mom has six sisters, and so I feel like I have grown up in this kind of cocoon of black women's energy |
| 1:48.6 | and like gathering and just understanding like how special that was. |
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