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 313 of the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast.

It's a very special week around here and I have so much I want to share.

Get into that after a quick break.

I am reporting to you live from my hotel in New York City, where after a tough day of travel,

I have landed to officially kick off my book tour because my book is now available everywhere

books is sold.

This is to hit heels, the transformative power of healing and community is no longer just mine.

It is yours too.

Even though I know I did it, it is still really hard to believe that I wrote a whole book.

One day we'll have to have a fuller discussion about the process, but just like when I started

the podcast, there was so much I didn't know until I was on the other side of the door.

Having the book has been by far the most difficult professional task I've undertaken.

I kept trying to compare it to writing my dissertation because that was the only framework

I had for this kind of project and still, that did not adequately capture the process.

Someone asked me in an interview recently, what part of the writing process I was most

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