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Speaker 1: Hey, y'all. This Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Therapy for

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Speaker 1: Black Girls has been exploring how we as black women

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Speaker 1: can free ourselves from the external and internal pressures of

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Speaker 1: showing up and superwomen. This year, the podcast team's goal

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Speaker 1: was to continue providing our community with our regularly scheduled

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Speaker 1: programming and also shine a light on the voices and

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Speaker 1: experiences of the sisters supporting our community. For this episode,

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Speaker 1: we've tapped a member of our Sister Circle community to

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Speaker 1: share her experience of playing the superwoman role. We've also

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Speaker 1: called in some of our guests from previous episodes to

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Speaker 1: provide mantras and words of encouragement. We hope this bite

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Speaker 1: sized episode helps you or someone in your circle and

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Speaker 1: encourages you to remove your cape. Hello. My name is

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Speaker 1: Mariama from North Carolina, and this is my superwoman's story.

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Speaker 1: Back in twenty nineteen, my mother I we both were

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Speaker 1: only daughters in our family, and I've navigated my role

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Speaker 1: in our family without her being a superwoman. Has become

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Speaker 1: unbearable now that the woman who was my superhero is

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Speaker 1: no longer here to help me. I wish we had

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Speaker 1: both burned our capes while she was still alive. What

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Speaker 1: mantra or affirmation would you share with me? M Hello,

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Speaker 1: my name is Lineah Smith Crawford and I'm here with

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Speaker 1: the Therapy for Black Girls podcast for Minority Mental Health Month. Mariama,

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Speaker 1: my affirmation for you is you are loved, you are held,

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Speaker 1: and it is safe for you to receive help. Hi,

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Speaker 1: this is Christi Faster on the Therapy for Black Girls

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Speaker 1: podcast for Minority Mental Health Month. Mom entre for you

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Speaker 1: is I forgive myself for what I didn't know or

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Speaker 1: do in the past. I give myself permission to change

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Speaker 1: and embrace a new role that makes me a priority GIF.

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Speaker 1: Today's bonus episode resonates with you. Please share with us

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Speaker 1: on social media using the hashtag TBG in session are

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Speaker 1: join us over in the Sister Circle to talk more

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Speaker 1: in depth about the episode. You can join us at

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Speaker 1: community dot Therapy for Black Girls dot com. Until next time,

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Speaker 1: take it care.