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The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women (African American Studies)

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By Marita Golden — 2025

Meet Black women who have learned through hard lessons the importance of self-care and how to break through the cultural and family resistance to seeking therapy and professional mental health care.

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Grief Is a Direct Impact of Racism: Eight Ways to Support Yourself

Self and community care is critical to combating the effects of racism and intersectional violence.

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Roberta K. Timothy
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03 – Stop the Toxic Positivity with Widow and Bestselling Author Nora McInerny

Amy talks to best-selling author and podcast host, Nora McInerny, about how toxic positivity causes more pain. She shares how to embrace uncomfortable feelings rather than fight them so you can live a better life.

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The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2020
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10 – The Real Story behind “13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do”

Three years after losing my mother, my 26-year-old husband died. I was a therapist. But the textbook material on grief I had to draw from wasn’t exactly helpful. In this episode, I’ll share my story and what I’ve learned about what it takes to be mentally strong.

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The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2020
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Whose Grief? Our Grief

For Saeed Jones, generations collapse into seconds during an American week of chaos and sorrow.

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Saeed Jones
2020
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110 - How to Be Sad with Best-Selling Author Helen Russell

Helen Russell is a journalist, author, and happiness researcher. Some of the things she talks about in this episode are the benefits of happiness, the strategies we should stop using when we feel sad, and the coping skills that can help us embrace the sadness so we can ultimately grow happier.

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The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2021
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Is Grief Mental Illness? With Psychiatric Changes, Maybe

Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.

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Tim Townsend
2013
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DSM-V: Interview With Social Worker Joanne Cacciatore, PhD, FT

I believe that social workers need to focus on that which we are trained to do: extend civic love and compassion to the client, staring where he or she is. We are not wed to the medical model; social work is ecological, psychosocial, and systems oriented.

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Georgianna Dolan-Reilly
2013
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