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• Leave a Commenton RBTS 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Racism-Based Traumatic Stress and Finding Culturally Responsive Healing

RBTS 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Racism-Based Traumatic Stress and Finding Culturally Responsive Healing

If you've been feeling anxious, exhausted, or on edge after experiencing racism, whether it was a comment at work, a troubling news story, or a disturbing encounter in public, you're not overreacting. What you're experiencing has a name: Racism-Based

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What is Racism-Based Traumatic Stress (RBTS)?

Welcome to our 30-part series on Racism-Based Traumatic Stress. Over the next month, we're diving deep into a topic that doesn't get nearly enough airtime in mental health conversations, the real, clinical impact of racism on our minds, bodies,

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• Leave a Commenton The Red Tape of Trauma: When Local Government Systems Become a Source of Stress

The Red Tape of Trauma: When Local Government Systems Become a Source of Stress

At The Mind and Therapy Clinic, we often discuss trauma as an individual experience: something that happens between people or within a family. However, as we continue our series on social-based trauma, we have to look at the bigger

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• Leave a Commenton Professional Pains: Navigating Social-Based Trauma in the Modern Workplace

Professional Pains: Navigating Social-Based Trauma in the Modern Workplace

For many, the workplace is a theater of productivity, career growth, and professional networking. However, for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) individuals, the modern workplace often becomes a site of repeated, localized, and systemic harm. This is

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• Leave a Commenton Institutional Gaslighting: How Local Agencies Impact BIPOC Mental Health

Institutional Gaslighting: How Local Agencies Impact BIPOC Mental Health

If you’ve ever walked out of a meeting with a local government agency, a HR department, or a social services office feeling like you were speaking a different language: or worse, feeling like you were losing your mind: you

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• Leave a Commenton The Joy Project: Why Reclaiming Happiness is a Radical Act of Healing for BIPOC Couples

The Joy Project: Why Reclaiming Happiness is a Radical Act of Healing for BIPOC Couples

Let's talk about something we don't discuss enough in therapy circles: joy. Not the hustle. Not the grind. Not "resilience" for the hundredth time. I'm talking about actual, unfiltered, belly-laughing, dancing-in-the-kitchen kind of joy. For BIPOC couples, pursuing happiness

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• Leave a Commenton Navigating “Public” Trauma in Your “Private” Life: Staying Connected When the World Feels Heavy

Navigating “Public” Trauma in Your “Private” Life: Staying Connected When the World Feels Heavy

You wake up, scroll through your phone, and before you've even had coffee, you're hit with another headline. Another video. Another conversation that leaves your chest tight and your mind racing. By the time you get to work or

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• Leave a Commenton The Art of the “Check-In”: 5 Weekly Questions for BIPOC Couples to Prevent Emotional Burnout

The Art of the “Check-In”: 5 Weekly Questions for BIPOC Couples to Prevent Emotional Burnout

Let's be real: being in a relationship while navigating the world as a BIPOC person comes with its own set of challenges. You're juggling work stress, family expectations, code-switching, racial trauma, and trying to show up for your partner

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• Leave a Commenton Faith, Community, and Therapy: How to Combine Your Support Systems for Maximum Healing

Faith, Community, and Therapy: How to Combine Your Support Systems for Maximum Healing

Here's what I see happen way too often: Someone finally works up the courage to start therapy, but they keep their faith community in one corner and their therapist in another. Or they lean heavily on their church family

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• Leave a Commenton Raising Resilient Kids While Healing Yourself: A BIPOC Parent’s Guide to Integrated Therapy

Raising Resilient Kids While Healing Yourself: A BIPOC Parent’s Guide to Integrated Therapy

You've probably heard the airplane oxygen mask analogy: put yours on first before helping your child. But here's the truth: as a BIPOC parent, you're often expected to keep everyone breathing while your own mask dangles just out of

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