Today, we are giving you Part II of Dr. B‘s Q&A segment for Mental Health Awareness Month. Below the break, you will find Dr. B’s insightful answers to your questions about relationships, depression, and social anxiety, among others.
Thank you so much to those who sent in questions and a very, very special thank you to Dr. B for her thoughtfulness and care in answering them.
As promised, our Mental Health Awareness month collaboration with Dr. Brittany Blackmon, a.k.a. Dr. B, is here! Dr. B is an LGBTQ affirming Clinical Psychologist and the owner of the empowerment-based organization, Dr. B Cares. She has graciously used her expertise to answer some of your toughest mental-health related questions.
In this first installment, Dr. B addresses topics such as coping with a breakup, how to know if you should seek therapy, and raising children with ADHD. Read on for more!
Shannon and Shanika, our next “Femme Voices” spotlight, are a femme couple living and loving in their native island, Jamaica. Shannon, a nursing student, and Shanika, a musician, are best friends and consider themselves to be twin flames after being reconnected via one fateful Instagram DM. They talk to us about their dreams and aspirations as individuals and as a couple. Their view on relationships and their energy-focused self-care methods allow them to have the capacity to love one another effortlessly, in the midst of an environment that isn’t exactly receptive to who they are. Shannon and Shanika share the things they are passionate about and their inspiring love story below!
Sunny is this week’s “Femme Voices” feature! Founder of “Yoniverse Talks”, Sunny is a birth worker who started her business after realizing how poorly women of color are treated when they seek medical treatment and the skyrocketing mortality rate of Black women during childbirth. Sunny offers many services, teachings, and products to help women through their fertility issues, childbirth journies, and even their trauma. Yoniverse Talks is centered around the idea that women of color must rally together to work towards healing and gaining access to safer and better quality healthcare.
Read on for more about Sunny and Yoniverse Talks!
