June is recognized as Men's Mental Health Awareness Month. In this episode, Dr. Niesha celebrates men for showing up and highlights the importance of embracing emotions and prioritizing mental well-being. The episode brings attention to the unique mental health challenges that men face, aiming to reduce the stigma that often prevents them from seeking help. It encourages open conversations about emotions, stress, depression, anxiety, and suicide, while promoting better access to resources and support systems.

Despite facing emotional struggles, men are statistically less likely than women to seek help due to societal stigma and traditional views of masculinity that discourage vulnerability. This has contributed to significantly higher suicide rates among men in many parts of the world. Dr. Niesha emphasizes the need to normalize therapy and mental health care.

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Crying is an essential part of the healing journey, supported by psychological, emotional, and physiological reasons. It allows for the release of pent-up emotions—grief, anger, sadness, frustration, even relief. When emotions are bottled up, they can lead to emotional numbness or manifest physically through tension, fatigue, or burnout. Crying offers a powerful form of catharsis, helping us fully process what we feel.

In this episode, Dr. Niesha is joined by author, playwriter, and lived-experience expert Lenora McClellan, who shares her powerful story of transformation. Once taught to suppress her tears, Lenora now embraces crying as a source of healing. Through her own pain and breakthrough, she discovered that her tears held the key to recovery—and today, she uses her testimony to help others find healing through their own tears through written expression in her books and poetry.

During difficult times, we often become disconnected from our emotional reality. Crying helps us reconnect—with ourselves, our needs, and our truth.

Tune in—and allow yourself the space to be vulnerable. Lean in, cry, and cry some more. Healing begins there.

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Healing is a deeply personal and ongoing journey that takes time, and this process often requires us to be transparent and honest with our truths. It can be painful to face and address the emotions and feelings we've suppressed or ignored for so long, because—it hurts to heal. In this episode, Dr. Niesha delves into the topic of trauma, explaining what it looks like and why it hurts. She explores the reasons why healing hurts and can be painful and offers helpful tools and strategies for navigating the process. Tune in to this episode for encouragement to confront your difficult truths and take the next step in your healing journey. Let it inspire you with the strength and courage to heal and move towards wholeness! You Got This!

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Healing through relationship happens through the process of psychological, emotional, and physical healing that happens within supportive, authentic, and safe human connections. Relationship is something that we need as human beings and is a part of our psychological and biological makeup. In this episode, Dr. Niesha is joined by Desiree Haddad, AMFT who is an associate therapist and advocate for mental health and wellness. Tune in on this powerful conversation as Desiree shares her personal story on how she continues her healing journey from trauma that she experienced at the hand of negative relationships. Desiree highlights how healing is not one-sided. In healthy relationships, both people grow—learning to trust, express needs, and support each other more deeply and comes from healthy attachments. Secure and healthy relationships create a sense of safety. When someone feels seen, accepted, and valued, their nervous system can relax, making healing possible. Let this episode help you to foster those healthy connections.

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Have you ever felt like you’ve settled for less or compromised your own feelings and values for the sake of someone else? Or maybe you’ve lowered your standards just to make someone else happy or feel valued? Have you ever stayed in a relationship or friendship that, despite causing you more pain than happiness, you continued to endure? Or perhaps you’ve stuck with a job, dealing with turmoil, even though you knew you needed to take a risk and move on? Maybe you’ve given up on a dream or goal because you didn’t feel capable of achieving it. Have you ever compromised your beliefs or faith in the process? If so then this episode is for you.

It’s natural to sometimes prioritize other people's needs, wants, or expectations over your own, and to feel conflicted when trying to maintain relationships, jobs, or dreams that may cause more harm than good. The desire to be accepted, loved, or valued can often lead to sacrificing parts of ourselves.

Letting go of something or someone, especially when there's emotional investment or history, can be really hard. Compromising your faith or core beliefs is also difficult, as those are central to who we are. Yet, when we focus too much on pleasing others or trying to meet expectations, we risk losing sight of what truly matters to us, and that’s when inner conflict arises.

Dr. Niesha talks in the this episode about compromise and how it can be a thief and rob you and steal your joy, happiness, peace, and can sometimes cause you emotional damage that leads to anxiety, depresson, isolation, feel disconnected, and in a place of stuck! Tune in as Dr. Niesha expounds more and also shares her personal experience with compromise and how she escaped the crip of guilt and chose to put herself first.

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Overcoming sexual abuse and the challenges that come with sharing such a personal and painful story is an incredibly courageous act. Maxine Henry's journey of healing and rising above her trauma is truly remarkable. By using her voice to share her testimony, she not only honors her own resilience but also offers strength and encouragement to others who may be facing similar struggles. Her diverse accomplishments—both professionally and spiritually—speak to the power of transformation and growth after trauma.

This kind of conversation is important, as it highlights the power of storytelling in healing and emphasizes that one's past does not define their future.

Tune in as Dr. Niesha and Maxine engages in this conversation of how writing her book was the catalyst for her to recently walk through and process her trauma journey through God, faith, and hope.

You can purchase Maxine Henry's book You Shall Overcome, wherever books are sold. As well as you can visit her on her webiste www.youshallovercome.com

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We are about to wrap up 2024 and embrace 2025. And during this time of year we are often are thinking about the past year and reflecting on things that has happened throughout the year. Some celebrations, some wins, and also some losses and disappointments, or tragedies that have taken place, and maybe just some life transitions that didn’t feel good. With all of the things that have happened some things may be unresolved and we are not able to leave in 2024 and just forget about it. However, they have a lasting emotional effect on us and we still have to deal with the residue of those things and experiences until they are resolved or until we are healed. Life presents situations to us that are not easy to overcome and it may not be something that we can just get over and thinkg we are good. However sometimes there is a process that we have to go through to be in a better space. During this episdoe Dr. Niesha shares with us how to embrace those things that we have to endure the process to get through. She also shares her truths of how there are things she realizes that she has to process and get through. Dr. Niesha leaves us with some strategies on how to get through the process and to the other end of the situation or experience and still have hope, find joy, and healing. Don't be afraid to go through the process as it will be worth it in the end.

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The Holiday season is here, and although many of our stories during this season are joyous and a happy time for us. There are also some of us whose stories are very different during this season. As this is a happy time for some, it is also a sad and difficult time for others. Many people are struggling with the loss of loved ones not being present for the holidays, loss of relationships, loneliness, financial stress of shopping and giving gifts, lack of social and family connections, isolation, and also many experience Seasonal Affective Disorder during this time. In this episode Dr. Niesha shares tools on how we can get through this holiday season whether our story is excitement and happiness or whether we struggle during this time. Tune in as Dr. Niesha speaks to both stories and helps us to find peace and joy in whatever our story may be.

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