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Balanced Black Girl

High-Maintenance vs. Low-Maintenance Friends, Supporting Women in Your Circle and the Benefits of Being a Girl’s Girl with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford of Therapy for Black Girls

Balanced Black Girl

She's So Lucky

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

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

#230: We’ve heard the term “girl’s girl” before and understand what in means in theory to support other women. But what does it actually look like putting it to practice?

Today I have the pleasure of sitting down Dr. Joy Harden Bradford. Dr. Joy is a licensed psychologist and the host of the award-winning podcast Therapy for Black Girls. We have an in-depth conversation on sisterhood, why community is vital for our well-being, and how to create meaningful connections with other women in our lives.

We Also Talk About…

  • What inspired Dr. Joy to become a licensed psychologist and create Therapy for Black Girls
  • Why female friendships are beneficial to our health
  • The differences between friendship, community, and sisterhood and why they aren’t interchangeable
  • High-maintenance vs. Maintenance friends and the role of reciprocity
  • How attachment styles shows up in friendships
  • The benefits of intergenerational friendships
  • Normalizing therapy and exploring different types of therapeutic modalities


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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production.

0:04.0

Hi friend, before we get into today's episode, I have a fun announcement and that is that

0:09.1

Balance Black Girl has its very first merch drop. I am so excited to present to you the

0:16.4

successful era collection. We now have three pieces to help you show off your successful era with some fun balanced black girl swag.

0:26.6

We have our balanced crew neck, we have our successful era t-shirt and our successful era coffee mug. So make sure you head to the show notes to check out

0:36.8

the collection and grab your favorite piece. Welcome to Balance Black Girl. My name is Les. I'm your host and I

0:48.9

appreciate you tapping in today. So I have a really wonderful episode planned for you. We have talked

0:58.8

about friendship and platonic connections on several episodes of this podcast.

1:04.4

And it is always a topic that we just can't get enough of.

1:08.2

Friendships are so important when it comes to our health,

1:11.9

our sense of community, our sense of belonging, and I'm really

1:15.7

excited to bring another community and friendship-oriented conversation to you today, this time bringing in a bit more of a mental health

1:25.6

perspective. So today's episode is a very long overdue crossover with Dr Joy from therapy for black girls.

1:36.0

Dr Joy Hardin Bradford is a licensed psychologist

1:40.0

and the founder and host of therapy for black girls,

1:42.0

which is the leading platform for mental health

1:45.3

conversations for black women.

1:48.1

Chances are, if you have heard a balanced black girl,

1:50.8

you have likely heard of therapy for black girls and Dr Joy's work and

1:55.5

she and I just have such an uplifting conversation about friendships, about

2:00.8

sisterhood, about what it means to be a girls girl about having more positive

2:05.9

fulfilling relationships with women whether that is within our families

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