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 8 of the Therapy for Black Girls podcast.

We are continuing our celebration of mental health awareness month by discussing relationships.

We talked about friendships, we talked about dating relationships, we talked about the

relationships with our moms, and this week we're going to be talking about the relationships

with our children and parenting.

So in this episode, you'll hear a conversation I had with Mercedes-Mudio, who is a licensed

clinical social worker.

She's a parent, coach, speaker, and best-selling author who helps parents and children communicate

with each other, manage emotional trauma, navigate social media and technology together, and

develop healthy parent-child relationships.

Over the course of her career, she has worked with adoptive families, foster families,

teen parents, parents navigating the child protective services system, and children living

with mental illness.

She started the in-parent shaming movement, as well as coined the term shane-proof parenting,

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