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.

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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 a session 149 of the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast.

Today, I'm answering a few of the questions you'll send in related to how your mental health

is being impacted right now. And I'm really happy you're taking this opportunity to share how

you've been feeling and to extend these conversations with our community. Remember that if you have a

question that you'd like to ask, you can share it with us at therapyforblackgirls.com slash CV support.

Here's question number one. How do I allow myself the room to experience the hurt from the complete

disruption of my life while also dealing with the guilt that my losses seem to pale in comparison

to what is being experienced by healthcare professionals, those who have lost loved ones,

or employment due to this. I give thanks to God daily for what I know I've been blessed with,

but I feel wrong for being saddened by missing my normal life, where normal will never be the same

for so many other people. Thank you so much for this question. I have certainly seen similar

sentiments expressed related to feeling guilty about the disappointment and sad news that people

are experiencing related to the disruption in their lives. And I invite you and anyone else who

struggling in this way to consider that there are no grief Olympics. No medals are given for whose

grief hurts the most or ways the most, pain, sadness and disappointment, or things that we can

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