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The Verywell Mind Podcast
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This season of the Verywell Mind Podcast will be focused on the power of community and hosted by Minaa B, a licensed social worker, mental health educator, and author of "Owning Our Struggles." Minaa is also a community care expert who helps people build healthy relationships. Every Friday, we'll be speaking with experts, wellness advocates, and individuals with lived experiences about community care and its impact on mental health.
Episodes 1 – 263 were hosted by Amy Morin, psychotherapist and former editor-in-chief of Verywell Mind.
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276 - Ask Minaa Anything: Creating and Navigating Healthy Friendships
Nov 24, 202300:32:25Tap to summarizeYou sent Minaa your most pressing questions, and in today's episode she provides her insight and advice to those questions. You asked about how to handle a friendship you may have outgrown, how to develop healthy two-sided friendships, and when to forgive a friend that betrayed your trust (and how to do it).For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcastThe Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by:Minaa B., LMSW - HostKristen Altmeyer - GM/VP, Verywell MindJeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →275 – How to Build Your Sisterhood With These Small Steps from Dr. Joy
Nov 17, 202300:43:36Tap to summarizeDr. Joy Harden Bradford is a Licensed Psychologist. She’s also a speaker and the Founder & CEO of Therapy for Black Girls, and host of its wildly popular mental health podcast, which received a Webby award in 2023. In this episode, Dr. Joy sits down with Minaa to discuss her new book, Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community. Her work focuses on making mental health topics more relevant and accessible for Black women and she specializes in creating spaces for them to have fuller and healthier relationships with themselves and others.For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcastThe Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by:Minaa B., LMSW - HostKristen Altmeyer - GM/VP, Verywell MindJeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →274 - How Black Mental Wealth is Key to Life-long Success and Wellness, with Dr. Raquel Martin
Nov 10, 202300:42:19Tap to summarizeDr. Raquel Martin is on a mission to radically reimagine Black possibility by promoting Black mental health as key to legacy-building and longevity for generations to come. In this episode, she sits down with Minaa B to discuss black mental wealth -- what it is and what it looks like in practice.Dr. Martin is an experienced licensed clinical psychologist, devoted professor, acclaimed researcher, and scientist. She deeply believes in the power of Black mental wealth – an affirming, lifelong journey, that encourages Black people to center mental health practices as integral and intentionally linked to success and wellbeing.For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcastThe Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by:Minaa B., LMSW - HostKristen Altmeyer - GM/VP, Verywell MindJeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →273 - Technology and Kids: How to Limit Social Media's Impact on Mental Health in Today's World
Nov 3, 202300:42:12Tap to summarizeJulie Scelfo is the Founder/Executive Director of Get Media Savvy, a nonprofit using pop culture to establish a healthy media environment for kids and families. She is an award-winning journalist, a former New York Times staff writer, a media ecologist, an author, and a parent.Scelfo was moved to start Get Media Savvy after reporting on the youth mental health crisis and seeing suicidality affect children at ever-younger ages, and recognizing how a multitude of factors—including absent regulations and the lack of widespread media literacy—has created an unhealthy, unsafe media environment. In this episode Scelfo talks with Minaa B about how her coalition works to create a widespread cultural shift so everyone recognizes the existence of the media environment and its central role in human affairs.For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcastThe Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by:Minaa B, LMSW -- HostKristen Altmeyer -- VP/GM, Verywell MindJeremiah McVay -- Podcast Producer/Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →272 - No More Suffering in Silence: How to Support and Care for New Parents with Postpartum Depression
Oct 27, 202300:41:28Tap to summarizePaige Bellenbaum, is a LCSW, and the Founding Director and Chief External Relations Officer at The Motherhood Center of New York.In this episode, Bellenbaum sits down with Minaa B to discuss her experience with severe postpartum depression and how that drove her to fight for education, screening, and treatment for postpartum depression so that no more women would have to suffer silently.For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcastThe Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by:Minaa B., LMSW - HostKristen Altmeyer - GM/VP, Verywell MindJeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →271 - Building Confidence with Model and Self-love Advocate Achieng Agutu
Oct 20, 202300:32:38Tap to summarizeAchieng Agutu is a Kenyan-born model, and digital content creator, who has made a name for herself through social platforms by serving us a daily bowl of motivation, daily affirmations, self-love and fearlessness.The positivity became a viral sensation, leading Vogue to name her the “Confidence Queen.” Global attention from major brands such as Victoria’s Secret and Away followed and she was also chosen for this year’s Create & Cultivate Top 100 list for creators.In this episode, Agutu sits down with Minaa B to discuss how she developed her confidence, stopped living for other people and what's up next for the "Confidence Queen."For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcastThe Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by:Minaa B., LMSW - HostKristen Altmeyer - GM/VP, Verywell MindJeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →270 - Ask Minaa Anything: Setting Boundaries and Expectations with Family, Friends and Partners
Oct 13, 202300:27:20Tap to summarizeYou sent Minaa your most pressing questions, and in today's episode Minaa provides her insight and advice to those questions. You asked about managing boundaries with an emotionally abusive parent, how to talk about intimacy in a relationship when you and your partner might have different needs, and how to set boundaries with a friend who is consistently late.Want your questions answered in another "Ask Minaa Anything" episode this season? Go to verywellmind.com/podcast and submit your question on the form to be considered.The Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by:Minaa B, LMSW - HostKristen Altmeyer - VP/GM, Verywell MindJeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →269 - How Therapy Has Shaped Grammy-nominated Singer/Songwriter Cassadee Pope
Oct 6, 202300:34:42Tap to summarizeOver the last 15 years, Cassadee Pope has been a lot of things to a lot of people—leader of seminal pop-punk band Hey Monday, the season 3 winner of The Voice and a platinum-selling, GRAMMY-nominated country singer-songwriter. Pope is also an ally and activist pushing for social change and a brighter future in a backward world. In this episode, Pope sits down with Minaa B. to discuss how therapy has shaped her life and songwriting, she also gives listeners a peek into what inspired her soon-to-be-released single.For more info visit verywellmind.com/podcastThe Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by:Minaa B, LMSW - HostKristen Altmeyer - VP/GM, Verywell MindJeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →268 - We All Get Lonely Sometimes, But There Are Healthy Ways to Cope With Feeling This Way
Sep 29, 202300:41:40Tap to summarizeBeing lonely really sucks. We've all experienced the moments where everyone we know seems to be busy—we haven't gotten a text back in hours, no one else is at home with us...even our pets can't be bothered with us!While the feeling of loneliness is never fun, we can learn ways to deal with solitude in a healthy way that doesn't start to wreak havoc on our mental health.Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, Founder of Project UnLonely talks about the toxicity of loneliness and how we can break down the stigma surrounding the topic because it can be hard to admit we're feeling lonely. Dr. Nobel also shares the types of creative expression that can be an antidote to loneliness.For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcastThe Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by:Minaa B., LMSW - HostKristen Altmeyer - GM/VP, Verywell MindJeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →267 - Bridging the Gaps Between Activism, Vulnerability, & Mental Health
Sep 22, 202300:45:47Tap to summarizeSocial activism is hard and often thankless work. However, the small and big wins feel monumental and make the journey toward gaining equity and fair treatment worth it.Felicia A. Henry, LMSW, a social worker and PhD candidate with a focus on race, gender, carceral, and social vulnerability studies shares ways we can preserve our mental health while fighting for social justice—because activists deserve rest too.For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcastThe Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by:Minaa B., LMSW - HostKristen Altmeyer - GM/VP, Verywell MindJeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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