Welcome to the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast, a weekly conversation about mental health,

personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions

of ourselves.

I'm your host, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia.

For more information or to find a therapist in your area, visit our website at therapyforblackgirls.com.

While I hope you love listening to and learning from the podcast, it is not meant to be a substitute

for a relationship with a licensed mental health professional.

Hey y'all, thanks so much for joining me for session 117 of the Therapy for Black Girls

Podcast.

If you follow us on social media, then you know that all month long we've been celebrating

a summer of sisterhood by having conversations each day about our relationships with other

sisters.

So if you've missed them, then you definitely want to head on over to our social media

pages to jump into those conversations.

But something that has come up in the course of this month have been concerns around jealousy

and friendships and how this undermines the ability to really make or sustain friendships.

So I wanted to spend some time today talking about where jealousy comes from and what we can

do about it when it pops up in a friendship.

So jealousy is a feeling that someone is trying to take something you have or you want.

And it often comes from a place of scarcity, anger, feeling inadequate, or not confident

in who we are and what we're capable of.

And if we're talking about this in the confines of a friendship, it may be that we feel like

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