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 Hardin Bradford,

a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia.

For more information or to find a therapist in your area,

visit our website at therapy for black girls.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,

y'all, thanks so much for joining me for session 333 of the Therapy for

Black Girls podcast. We'll get right into our conversation after a word from our sponsors. A couple of weeks ago, the original Hot Girl, Megan The Stallion began to tease that her first self-funded project as a newly independent artist

was coming on November 3rd and would be called COBRA. Now I had no idea what it would be

but was very excited to celebrate this new milestone for her, but to also

hear which she would share in this first solo piece after several years of painful and traumatic

experiences. What I heard years of

painful, painful, what I heard when I press play blew me away.

Yes, of course the beat is infectious,

but the level of vulnerability from which she shares is what

actually stopped me in my tracks.

Let me just highlight some of the sentiments that grab me. First, this idea that there were all

of these people around her, yet she felt so alone dealing with so many painful things.

This idea that people were only around because they were

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