The Black Mind Garden: ReTrain Your Brain!

SHOW NOTES : In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about Navigating the Impact of Trauma in Community. This week, I learned about the latest school shooting in Nashville through a message from the principal of my son's school. It's heartbreaking to hear about such tragedies, even if we aren't directly affected. The trauma ripples through the community and reminds us that we are...

In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about Understanding How We Process Differently Increases Empathy. The Myers-Briggs personality inventory helps us understand others better. The importance of knowing how we process information is just as important as the content we process because there is a spectrum for each dichotomy, and we shouldn't box people into one category. Introverts get...

SHOW NOTES: In this week's Mind ReMapping Moment, I am joined by a relatable counselor, a mother, a model, and a mental health advocate. We are discussing the incarcerated mind and how Black Americans are constantly misdiagnosed. · Is it working if it is holding you back? · When is it okay not to be okay? · How do we unlearn certain things? These and many more await you in this week's spec...

SHOW NOTES: In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about Understanding Our Children's': Developing Personalities Through Myer-Briggs Lens. As a parent and educator, I firmly believe that empowering ourselves to understand our kids' personalities is essential to help them grow and develop into happy, healthy adults. Before we dive in, let me give you a brief overview of Myers-Briggs. It's a...

SHOW NOTES In this week's Mind ReMapping Moment, I am joined by a good friend, researcher, medical doctor, health coach, teacher, and family man. We are discussing raising empowered black boys and the dad and mom conversations. · How can one embody both the mom and dad energy? · How can we empower our kids to be motivated in setting their goals? · Why do we need to discuss emotional fluency? One c...

SHOW NOTES: In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about the Getting to the Root Cause of a Complaint in Our Young Person. As caregivers or educators, we may come across situations where a child or teenager expresses discomfort or dissatisfaction, but struggles to articulate the underlying issue. It could be a physical ailment, such as a headache or stomach ache, or an emotional concern, su...

SHOW NOTES: In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about the importance of aligning family values, specifically why kids' values matter. I've learned that values are what's most important to us, whether they're surface-level or deeper core values that were instilled in us as children by our parents, teachers, and society. When it comes to kids, their values may seem superficial, but it's es...

SHOW NOTES: In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we delve into the topic of embracing mistakes and viewing them as missed steps rather than failures. Many people have a tendency to see mistakes as negative and defining moments in their lives, leading to feelings of shame, guilt, and self-doubt. However, this way of thinking is limiting and can hold us back from reaching our full potential. Instea...

SHOW NOTES In this week's Mind ReMapping Moment, I am joined by a fellow physician, a woman, and the owner of the GPS Doc. She is a former family caregiver, an independent health advocate, a healthcare navigation expert, a speaker, a consultant, and an author. We are discussing the article- The Empathy Gap which tackles why we must stop ignoring the obvious. · How do we get our leaders to understa...

SHOWNOTES:  In this week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, I am joined by a messaging and visibility coach. A woman who helps other women master their message and sell high-value offers without being chained to social media. We are discussing the entrepreneurial situation where they can build themselves as a brand.  · What do I want to do going forward?  · How can I be visible and make a cha...

SHOW NOTES: In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about The Importance of Emotional Honesty in Healing Trauma Wounds. After observing myself I noticed that historically, I default to thinking rather than feeling so going through this grief process I noticed that when asked how I'm feeling I tend to default to the mind to think and what my mind wants to do is to go to the thinking. When tal...

SHOW NOTES: In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about How Collective Limiting Beliefs Limit Our Potential. We first encounter group thinking as young people where we have cliques as teenagers and probably even before then, during the preteen adolescents. In the group think everybody basically thinks the same way, they agree upon things the way to be, the way to act, what you should do, w...

SHOWNOTES: In this week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, I am joined by Dr. Donna G. MD, owner of the company, Female Matters. We are discussing how menopause is not the beginning of old age but the beginning of our best era. · What are we transitioning to? · What are our expectations going into the Menopausal stage? · What can we do to ease the emotions of one undergoing menopause? These and a lot more a...

SHOW NOTES:  In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about the importance of Allowing Our Relationships to Complete to Create New Ones.  As we grow and evolve there are people in our lives who grow with us, others grow at different rates than us, others don't grow at all and others grow in different directions. It is important to understand that when you're doing the work of growth...

SHOW NOTES: In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about the Difference Between Power & Force in Our Communications. Sometimes we think we are being powerful when in fact we are confusing power with force. We all come up against obstacles when we strive to improve the quality of our lives, work and relationships and many times we force solutions. When we are accustomed to pushing throug...

SHOW NOTES: We are back with another episode with Len Sturdivant. In this week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we are going to discuss honoring each other’s grief processes. In this episode, we are going to talk about the painful shock caused by the recent death of tWitch and how we can learn from his life. · What is impression management? Does it cause us harm or good? · For celebrities, it is challengi...

SHOW NOTES: In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about why we should stop passing on the conversation of being broken. Part of the broken conversation is usually done through our internal listening, and we listen through filters and these filters are due to our upbringing, our environment and what was told to us while growing up. When we empower our thinking, then we shift and empower our...

SHOW NOTES: In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about how our listening drives our response and behavior. Listening is the first opportunity for us to refine the potential for our responses and reactions. Oftentimes when we listen in a binary manner, we tend to listen in order to agree or disagree, validate or invalidate as well as listening for what’s good or bad and this leads us to mi...

SHOW NOTES: In this week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, I am joined by a fellow Black Therapist who is a male and we are discussing a very important topic related about how our trauma affects our relationships, especially with our partners. · Can trauma make a person narcissistic? · How exactly does our trauma affect our relationship with the people we care about? · What can one do when their partner is...

SHOW NOTES: In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about How Purpose doesn't Always Look Pretty. So many people always want to figure out what their purpose is and often times than not they end up feeling lost and kind of stuck. If you are walking on a path of development and you're expanding on a regular basis, purpose tends to evolve and change depending on your current values and what’s...

SHOW NOTES: In this week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, I am joined by Tammy Jolivette in an interesting conversation about the concept of hair! What is hair discrimination? What is the impact of wearing our hair naturally? How does wearing our hair textured naturally affect some of us psychologically? What is a Textured hair? Hair that has a texture has strands that take the form of curves, spirals, zi...

SHOW NOTES: In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about Normalizing emotions, a Staple for Emotional Intelligence. The other day my son felt safe to share with one of his friends about the feelings of loneliness and sadness at that point which he normally doesn’t have. This led to a heart to heart conversation with him to get to the root of what had him feeling like that and also getting h...

00:50 - What course correcting miscommunication is 02:00 - Course correcting with my son 06:00 - Being a parent and mom guilt 07:12 - Misinterpretation of my comment with my business partner 09:12 - Having courageous conversations 11:40 - Being unattached to the results when having a courageous conversation 12:30 - Being responsible for the impact our conversation is going to have 13:25 - Accounta...

SHOW NOTES: In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about the importance of teaching our kids tools to empower their minds. In the process of talking about conscious communication and the conversations I have with my kid has made me realize that what I am passionate about is making sure that kids know the tools to empower their own minds because I have seen the impact it has with my kid. As...

SHOW NOTES: In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about the Structure of Missed Communication. It is important to listen to how the words are used while speaking because even in the 7% of communication there’s a lot that is missed because we are managing a lot of information on  a bit by bit basis that our brain has to filter out into chunks that we can handle. The information is filt...