Welcome to the Therapy for Black Girls podcast, where we discuss all things 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.

To get more information and resources, visit the website at therapyforblackgirls.com

And 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 37 of the Therapy for Black Girls podcast.

Today I want to talk with you about 10 ways that you can optimize your mental health for

the new year.

I'm definitely going to jump into that in just a second, but I do want to take a second

just to tell you guys about the week that I've had.

So I want to send a very special shout out to a sister by the name of Sharnay Graham on

Twitter.

So on Thursday, Sharnay sent out a tweet, letting people know about the therapy for black girls,

therapist, directory.

And somehow this tweet picked up so much steam by you guys sharing it that both Salange

and Gabriel Union both share the tweet.

So I am affectionately calling this the tweet that launched a thousand sign ups because

I have gotten a flood of new therapists added to the directory and so many more people

have been able to find good therapists in the directory because of you guys sharing

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