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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 165 of the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast.

By now, you've likely heard the jokes about gaining the quarantine 15, but what you might

not have heard is why jokes and messages like this can be harmful.

So today, we're going to chat about it.

With this conversation, I was joined by Dr. Gail Brooks.

Dr. Brooks is vice president and chief clinical officer for the RIMFrew Center.

She leads the RIMFrew Clinical Excellence Board and the Clinical Training Department and has

clinical and administrative oversight responsibility for RIMFrew's residential facility in Florida

and for the non-residential sites in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina,

and Tennessee.

For the past 30 years, she's treated patients from diverse backgrounds who suffer from eating

disorders.

Dr. Brooks served as the eating disorder specialist in the HBO film Thin, has appeared on Good Morning

America and has been featured in a variety of notable publications.

A frequent presenter at conferences and workshops, Dr. Brooks speaks on topics such as the treatment

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