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Speaker 1: All right, right, right, y'all, welcome back to another episode
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of Black Girl Interrupted. Let me tell y'all I have
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missed y'all so so so much, so I appreciate y'all
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coming back in with your girl. Tonight. We are discussing
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all things mental. Today is Wednesday. It is our wellness Wednesday.
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You know how we get down over here on Black
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Girl Interrupted. Tonight, I got my girl over here with me,
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Doctor Brittany Harrison. She is the CEO and founder of
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the first mental health urgent care clinic in the state
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of Louisiana. Her facility is called Mind for Horizons. So
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y'all already know what I do before I get started.
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Y'all know I always do something inspirational, something empowering, something encouraging,
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something uplifting before we jump into tonight's conversation. So I
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do ask please hold all your questions to the end
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or once we get into the conversation. So before we
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get started, doctor Brittany, I just want to let you
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know I always play something encouraging, empowering, uplifting, just to
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let someone know your mental health matters. We care about you,
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we love you, we want to see you when we
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know it's hard, but I want you to get up
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and keep going. I don't care how many times you
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fall down. I care about the amount of times that
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you got back up. So before we jump into tonight's conversation,
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let's go ahead and let's jump into this, and then
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we'll be back ready to start the show. Thank y'all,
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love y'all, Oh y'all, Lloyd, Here we go, y'all.
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Speaker 2: There are going to be days where you do not
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feel like doing anything. Those days are going to be
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there no matter what path you take.
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Speaker 3: We have two voices in our mind. Is that one
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voice is that soft motherfucker voice that says, sleep the fun,
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it's okay.
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Speaker 4: You can take the day off, saying you don't need
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to go hard.
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Speaker 5: It's that coddling voice.
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Speaker 6: You want to be hugged and nurtured and all that
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That voice, that nagging voice of weakness, the one that
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tells you to back off, to simmer down, to take
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it easy. When you hear that voice, tell it no,
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tell it to sit down and be quiet. Suppress that voice.
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Speaker 5: You got another voice in your head that's asking you
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a question. It's asking you what could you be?
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Speaker 1: What could you be? Could you be?
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Speaker 6: If you've worked as hard as you could, what could
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you be? If you imposed real discipline in your life?
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Speaker 1: What could you be?
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Speaker 6: Because that pain that you are feeling is the test.
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Speaker 2: This is a test. This is the day I'm gonna
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find out if my goals really are my goals.
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Speaker 4: Michael Jordan, they call it the flu gay.
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Speaker 7: He's still scoring more than the average dude with the flu.
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Even when you got the flu and you play other champions,
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you still score more than they score.
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Speaker 4: Because you've learned how to dominate and you need that
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same mentality.
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about looking at yourself in the mirror, looking
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at yourself in the eye, and saying, I'm gonna dominate
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today better than any other day. Learn how to get
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excited when that feeling creeps in of I don't want
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to do it, and when those test days become something
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that you live for, something you look forward to. Now
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you're talking about a whole different level of mindset. You're
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talking about an unstoppable force of nature that cannot.
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Speaker 7: With Mental toughness is the ability to resist, to manage,
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overcome doubt, overcome worries, overcome concerns, overcome circumstances that prefit
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most people from succeeding or performing under pressure. Every human
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being that is not successful versus every human being that's successful.
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The only difference between them is mental toughness. One group,
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when they come up against trials and tribulations, they shrink.
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One group of people. When they come up against a recession,
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they shrink. Weak minded people, They buckle, they complain, they.
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Speaker 4: Look for every excuse.
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Speaker 7: But mentally tough people, we saw the starve, and we
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pull on our surfboard and we're beginning to surf on
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the ways that trial most people.
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Speaker 8: You have to understand that your greatest commodity not your shoes,
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not your cop not your clothes, it's your mind. Your
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mind is the most important thing you have, and you
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gotta control it. I don't care what's happening, You have
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to control it. When you leave, what you're fighting for,
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what's show legacy, what you gonna do? You say you
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a chap, But do you practice like a chap? You
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say you a chap? Do you fight like a chap?
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You say you a chap? Do you have the mentality
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of a chap? Champions keep going when they don't have
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anything left in their tak when they don't have no
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more when it's over, when they're tired, when they're frustrated,
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when they're ready to give up, when they spent their
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last dime, that's when they get started.
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Speaker 4: It's when you have nothing left. It's when you defleted.
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Speaker 8: All your money, when all your energy gone.
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Speaker 7: That's when it showtimes.
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Speaker 8: When you find the way out of no way, when
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you find breath that you don't have, when you find
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energy that did not exist, when you want this thing
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as bad as you.
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Speaker 4: Want to breathe, that's when you find a way.
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Speaker 1: All right, all right, y'all again, welcome back to Black
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Girl Interrupted. Y'all know it's your girl Ash, your favorite
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girl from the five zero four, and tonight I'm bringing
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y'all wellness Wednesday. But tonight I'm doing something a little different. Tonight,
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I have the first I have the CEO, the owner
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of the first mental health urgent care clinic in the
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state of Louisiana. Her name is doctor Brittany Harrison. Doctor Brittany,
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let me first say this to you, Thank you, Thank you.
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I promise I'm gonna try to keep it together tonight, y'all.
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I promise y'all know I'm the biggest pride baby ever,
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so I promised I'm gonna try to keep it together tonight.
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But y'all know how I am when it comes to
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mental health as a person. You guys know my story
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as a person that has attempted suicide seven times, with
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my most recent being in June. This conversation tonight is
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imperative for me. It's imperative for y'all. This is a
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conversation that we have to have every day. We can't
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just talk about this when someone un the lives themselves
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or win a celebrity. This is a conversation that is
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happening in our own backyard, something that we don't talk about,
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we're afraid to talk about. But I have doctor Britney
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Harrison here tonight. Let me put your name up here.
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I wish it would have no I want it to
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Oh you know what, Let me go right here. Let
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me put your I don't know why it's doing that,
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but I have doctor Brittany Harrison here with us tonight.
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Doctor Brittany, how are you this evening girl? How are
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you now?
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Speaker 5: I'm doing well? How are you?
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Speaker 1: I am blessed. I am grateful to have you here.
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Thank you, Thank you so much for taking the time
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out of your day to come and sit down and
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just have a girl girl the girl conversation with me.
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I definitely appreciate that.
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Oh yes, ma'am. So, I'm gonna be quiet. I'm gonna
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let doctor Brittany this is her tonight. I'm just here.
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That's it. So, doctor Brittany, let's go ahead and let's
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jump into it, because I'm pretty sure there are some people.
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I know for a fact there are people out here
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that one of them. Who are you? Who is doctor
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be Who is doctor Britney Harrison? Who are you?
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Speaker 7: So?
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Speaker 5: I am a psychiatric nurse practitioner, born and raised in
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New Orleans, Louisiana. I have been practicing as a psychiatric
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nurse practitioner for the past ten years. I have practiced
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in in patient settings, so in patient hospital settings, outpatient
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community settings such as the AGG Team. So I am
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all hands on deck with trying to treat patients who
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have severe mental illness, and I also treat children as well.
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Speaker 1: So let me ask you, doctor Brittany, Yes, what why
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mental health? What made you say this is what I
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want to do? What was it? What was it about
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mental health? Was it maybe something you endured personally. Was
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it something you saw family, was it friends? I want
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to know?
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Speaker 5: So it was actually my own trauma. So I lost
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my father at the age of fourteen during a vacation.
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We were on our way to Disney World and he
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had a brain an eurysm, and that happened right in
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front of my in front of my eyes. I had to.
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Speaker 1: Thank your time. Yeah, Reade, if you need to take
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a step back a moment, please do so.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. So, at that age, I had to travel to
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the nearest hospital with him, and the nurse there had
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to explain to me what was going on and that
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it was a possibility that I wouldn't get to speak
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to him again because he was in the car. But
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she she encouraged me to let him know how much
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I loved him and how I felt about him, because
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he could of course still hear me at that time.
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But that experience with losing my dad that changed the
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trajectory of my life. I'm Prior to losing him, I
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wanted to be a pediatrician. I wanted to be a
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doctor to take care of kids. But that one experience
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with that nurse, I said, no, I have to go
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into nursing and I wanted to do mental health because
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my mom she introduced me to a therapist for grief counseling.
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And when I started that process, I knew this was
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my calling. So thereafter, when I completed nursing school, I
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worked in various settings, so ER doing trauma, ICU settings,
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juvenile detention centers, I worked various settings for mental help.
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Was it was just my calling. Even in the ER,
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I was placed with either the trauma rooms or with
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psychiatric patient in the psyched So I said, yeah, this
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is something that God is calling me to do. And
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I had the pleasure of working with some phenomenal psychiatrists
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with the ACTING and that's a sort of community treatment
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team for severely mentally ill patients. So I would go
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to their homes and take care of them, so giving
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them injections in their homes and get to have that
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one on one interaction with my patients. And I said,
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I got the most fulfillment for taking care of these patients.
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Said this is what I want to do for the
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rest of my life. I have to have that one
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on one interaction with these patients and just see the
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oppression that happened with these patients with and being compliant
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with their medication. I was able to keep them out
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of the hospital. With working with the team of social workers,
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other doctors, counselors, we were able to keep them from
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out of jail and out of the hospital. And I said,
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this is my calling, this is what I want to do.
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I want to advocate for these patients.
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Speaker 1: Where were you? I needed you fifteen twenty years ago.
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I needed you, And that's similar to why I created
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Black Girl Interrupted podcast. My father passed in twenty twenty one,
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but prior to that, didn't have the best relationship with
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my mom, you know, family. I was rebellious, out of control.
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Then depression set in and all the my mother was
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a psych nurse. This was not a conversation that we had,
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you know. It was you just need to go, yeah,
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And I wasn't ready to go. So I needed an outlet.
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I needed somewhere where I could talk, where I could
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feel safe, where I could release, because I wanted to heal.
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I wanted to overcome the traumas because I didn't want
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that to define who I was gonna grow into. And
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it did. It carried me into my adult year, my
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adult years. Let me ask you in that moment at
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fourteen years losing a parent. I'm so sorry at fourteen,
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at fourteen years old, the most pivotal years of your life. Yeah, mentally,
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I can't even just imagine. I just and I'm never
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lost for words, but I'm just trying to imagine at
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fourteen years old being and seeing what that did to you,
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and how you were able to pivot that into something.
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When you look back at that day and you look
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at now, is there anything about that you would change?
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Speaker 5: Yes. On that day, of course, at fourteen, as a teenager,
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didn't want to go on family trips. So prior to
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that happening, it's like Disney World, I want to stay here,
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my friends. I'm arguing back and forth with my dad
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and he was like, britt, please, please, we don't have
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a great time. We had just purchased a timeshare out
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there in Florida. Looking back at that day, if I
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could change anything, I would change the fact that I
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was arguing back and for my dad because I loved
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him so much, and that is that is something that
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replaced in my mind all of the time. If I
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could change anything, it would be that I would instead,
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you know.
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Speaker 7: Just.
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Speaker 5: Cha restoes moments with him, that I had.
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Speaker 1: You're talking to my heart because my father passed in
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twenty twenty one. We weren't speaking. So the guilt, yes, yes,
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when I tell you, m hmm. If I could go back,
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I would have made that last phone call. I would
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have done it. If I would have known that he
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was gonna be gone in three weeks, I would have called.
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I would have apologized. I would have made it right.
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But I didn't. Yeah, I'm gonna give you a moment
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to regroup and and and hmm, I'm gonna give you
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a moment. So y'all welcome to My sister is sending
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the prayer. Hands to you. Look at you. M hmmm.
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I wanna mm hmm. You're not. I'm not supposed to
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have you brian on him. I'm not supposed to have
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your crime. But you know what it's for the soul,
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Yes it is.
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Speaker 5: And I needed to cry as she thank you for this,
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because no one has ever asked me that question, not
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even through therapy, not that particular question. You know, going
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back to that day, what is it that I would change?
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And I needed that, you know, I needed that.
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Speaker 1: I needed you. Everybody's sending prayers. I'm not sure if
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you could see the comments, but I try to pull
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them up.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 1: But I want to say this to you, and I'm
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still in therapy.
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Speaker 5: H I am as well. It is a journey. It's
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a journey.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you, not a reason. It's a journey.
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Because my therapist told me. She said, you need the
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feel what you need to feel. Then that's right, don't
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wait till tomorrow, don't wait till next week. Feel it then, yes,
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you address it then, and you're human. She said, do
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not ever not give yourself grace' And so I asked her,
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I say, well, what does grace look like? She said,
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only you know that. So I say, to you, give
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yourself a grace to feel what you need to feel.
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When I tell you, my sister says, it's healing. Yes,
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say it's healing. When I tell you, speaking with you,
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I feel like I'm talking to my therapists now because
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you're helping me. Because had I not asked that question,
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I wouldn't have been able to say, well, hey, you
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know what I know. Some people can say, oh, well
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I feel where you come.
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Speaker 5: No, right, you can empathize. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: If I could absolutely go back, I would. I would
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have called my dad. I would have said, you know what, Dad,
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I love you. I'm so sorry. I don't know why
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we went these many months and didn't speak. Yeah, had
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I had known? Yea, then it's why do I feel
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this way? Are my feelings valid? And for my therapist
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to tell me you're human? Yes, those are feelings, those
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are your stages of grief. I didn't understand. Well, what
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do you mean, she said, The guilt, that's right. The anger,
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the anger of this, she said, you're grieving. I say,
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but when does it end? She said? It never ends?
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And I asked her. I said but why? She said,
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because now you have a new chapter in your life,
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but this one doesn't include your dad. At that point,
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I got up and I walked away. I say, but
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I need the include she said, because you keep holding
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on to that day and everything. She said, different things
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have happened on that day since then. But doctor Brittany explain,
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on that day at fourteen, then the next year rolled around? Yeah,
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how was it then? How was it then? Three hundred
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and sixty five days later, you're a year older? For you?
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Speaker 5: Mm hmm, it was. It's very very difficult.
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Speaker 6: Oh.
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Speaker 5: The young lady was very difficult. His my grandmother, his mom,
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a young lady. She was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Speaker 1: Oh lord, and she.
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Speaker 5: Was also grieving for that of my my father, who
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was her eldest child. M and she could not get
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past you know, yeah, and death. Then she passed away.
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That followed you.
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Speaker 1: H yeah. So take a moment, take a moment. Uh
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huh are you good? Take that moment? Well, well we'll
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just sit in that for just a moment, because here
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you are a young lady. You're going into a young lady.
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I'm over here shaken. You lose your father at fourteen
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and then sixteen your grandmother. So those two years my
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girl was was my good sister, was struggling.
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Speaker 7: M h.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm over here shaking because I I am. I
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want to hug you so bad. Shad Day says, we
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love you, doctor Britney. We love you, shad Day.
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Speaker 8: We love you.
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Speaker 1: Baby, promise we love you. Yes, But doctor Britney in
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this moment, m h with all your accomplishments, because you
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have some accomplishments. Baby, I baby, you did you do you?
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Let me tell you something. You made history? Okay, you
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made history. What is to come mm hmm from this?
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Going back to this fourteen year old young lady because
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you were a young lady. I'm not gonna call you
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a girl. You were a young lady. Yes, you lost
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your dad, your grandmother within the span of two years.
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So now here you are, you're eighteen mm hm.
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Speaker 5: And I had Hurricane Katrina and the head came well seventeen,
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I was seventeen, yeah, uh five o five and that
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was more trauma just.
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Speaker 1: And for you. Now here we go over fourteen three years.
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What was your bounce back? What was that? What was
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that moment where you said, I gotta pull Brittany together.
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I gotta I got the love on little Brittany, but
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now I got to I got to nurture big Britney. Yes,
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what was that moment? Because you you you experienced tragedy
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in three years three not two or three years in between,
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but back to back. Yes, what was your moment where
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you said, big Brittany got to get up now. And
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it don't have to be a specific date, but what
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was a moment What was where you said, big Brittany
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is here now.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, the moment I knew I needed to get it
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together and really focus and buckle down and rebuild was
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after yet another tragedy after Hurricane Katrina. I was displaced.
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I was in the convention center for Hurricane Katrina. You
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had to get rescued after four days. There had attempted
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sexual assault while I was there.
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Speaker 1: Breathe. I want you to stop right there, because this
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is something. Let me tell y'all because I see there
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are new people coming in y'all. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back
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to Black Girl. Interrupt the podcast, y'all know with sugar Ash.
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I'm bringing y'all another episode. Today is wellness Wednesday, but
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today is all things mental. I got my good sister
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over here, doctor Britney Harrison, CEO and founder of my
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or Horizons. Let me reiterate that the first Let me
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reiterate this because some of y'all don't think y'all heard me,
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But this lady right here is the first person to
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open up a mental health care urgent clinic in the
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state of Louisiana. No one's done it, No one has
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done it, no one has done it. Nobody, This young
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lady right here, I need y'all to tap in with her.
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And I tell you this is what resilience looks like.
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Everybody keeps saying, Louisiana Strong. There you go. If Louisiana
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Strong was a person, there you go. Right there. This
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is doctor Britney Harrison. Every y'all, welcome back again. We
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got a couple of comments in here. So my sister says,
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in those moments, we feel, we feel guilt for not
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having control of that moment, knowing you're right there and
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there's nothing you can physically do to help your love.
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When we tend to blame ourselves. Yes, and she said,
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she said, Jesus, I'm praying for you, Queen. She said,
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I love your sweetheart.
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Speaker 5: Oh, thank you.
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Speaker 1: And then when you set another tragedy, she said, MG.
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So let me tell y'all, my sister Jewel knows exactly
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where you where you've been born and raised the New Orleans.
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She lives in Atlanta. Now. Her and her husband had
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been together, oh lord, fifty million years. It seems like
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they got married, beautiful ceremony. I don't even think they were.
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I don't even think sus had it been a month
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she loses her husband.
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Speaker 5: Oh my god, oh.
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Speaker 1: Right there on the bathroom floor. So when I tell
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y'all Louisiana Strong, y'all gonna put some respect on Louisiana. Baby,
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I'm telling you put some respect because I hang with warriors, resilience.
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This is it. So we're sitting down to night again
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with doctor Britney Harrison, Doctor b h So, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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go through what you need to go through. You get up.
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So my other good sister, she says, I don't know you,
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just know you are loved.
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Speaker 5: I love you, Thank you you too, Bibe.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you, doctor b we have a commaderie
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of beautiful women and men that come through and love
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on us. You are in a safe space when I
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tell you we love over here. We encourage, we empower,
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we uplift.
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Speaker 7: M hmm.
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Speaker 1: If at any moment it gets a little rough, hey
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say hold up as wait, I need a moment, and
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we're gonna love on you. We're gonna pour into you.
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But I want you to continue. So you you come
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through this. You've lost your your father, your grandmother. Katrina
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comes through. Little Brittany says, you know what, I gotta
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grow up. I gotta I gotta get it together. I
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gotta pull it together. But then tragicy strikes. Yeah, I know,
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you said, but then you bounce back. What was your
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bounce back. What was your reason is? Because I know
30:49
in this moment, you're like God, you keep punching me
30:52
in the gut, you keep taking, But apparently he was
30:55
preparing you for something, for something.
30:58
Speaker 5: Had to with that last tragedy. After being displaced for Katrina,
31:06
I went to Louisiana Tech with a friend and we
31:10
got into a horrible car accident where we lost another
31:15
friend and my friend was in a coma. She was
31:21
a driver, and I was in the passenger's seat and
31:27
I didn't have a seatbelt on, did not have a
31:31
seat belt on. In God's spear in my life, and
31:33
I knew I was here more reason than I needed
31:38
to In that moment, I knew I needed to gathering
31:45
myself and getting myself together. So that experience, that was
31:56
the wake up call for me.
31:58
Speaker 1: That was the moment, That was the moment from tragedy
32:05
to triumph. Yes, you endure these tragedies, but you endure
32:13
these tragedies period you doctor Brittany. If I could help,
32:25
and here I am complaining and you have just you
32:35
are strength. Mm hmm. I just want to take a reset,
32:47
just just the just the moment. Let's let's let's I
32:54
want doctor Brittany to just I want her to collect herself. Y'all.
32:58
Let's give her a little respect. Let's get give her
33:00
a little love, y'all. Let's I need y'all to drop
33:02
in the comments. I need y'all to give doctor b
33:04
some love because this was not when I tell y'all,
33:09
this was not my intention. She was supposed to be
33:11
coming and we're having girls talk and now she's crying.
33:14
I feel some kind of way because I got muscles
33:16
over here cried and this is but y'all know me.
33:22
Y'all know what we do over here on Black Girl
33:24
inter the podcast. Y'all know we get over here and
33:27
we we are so vulnerable. But the most beautiful thing
33:31
about this, Doctor Britney, is the love that you're getting
33:35
while being vulnerable. And this is and this is These
33:38
are the types of spaces that I want to see
33:41
more of. You know, is I want to see you
33:45
on more platforms. I want to and this is my
33:48
my prayers for you, is I want to see you
33:51
on other platform plights platforms because I want you to
33:57
let them know what your test was and how you
34:00
became a testimony. Yes, so we're gonna shift gears a
34:04
little bit because I don't want I don't want doctor
34:07
B to b said anymore. Y'all know we're supposed to
34:09
be having a good time on Wellness Wednesday. But it
34:12
is all things mental. Yes, So doctor Brittany, now you
34:18
get up and you're like, you know what I got this?
34:25
You go to school and you're here your calling. What
34:34
was it that you said, I gotta do more, I
34:41
gotta come out of this, I gotta do more for
34:42
the community. Was it things that you were seeing? My
34:47
sisters said it was two weeks. They had only been
34:49
married two weeks. Two weeks he was in the bedroom
34:55
the meno. So let me ask was it things that
35:02
you were seeing in the community, because I know homelessness
35:05
was was is a big issue in New Orleans. It's
35:08
a humongous in that, the Fennel addictions, the military people
35:16
just in general. What made you say I got I
35:21
got to step in, I got to do something in
35:24
the community. Not just you were working in different facilities
35:28
and working under different doctors, But what was it in
35:31
your mind where you said, I have I have to
35:35
take the initiative nobody else is doing it. Was it
35:38
did someone come to you and say, doctor, be this
35:40
is what you need to do. Was it your husband?
35:42
Was it other doctors? What was it? I want to
35:47
we want to know what made you say, y'all not
35:51
doing enough. I gotta step in, I gotta make something happen.
35:55
Speaker 5: Yes. So it was seeing patient call and actually I
36:01
would get crisis calls stating that there was nowhere for
36:09
the patients to go except for the ed to get
36:13
medication spilled or to see someone immediately without having to
36:17
wait a three month time for So I said, this
36:23
is ridiculous. Why is this happening? Because at that time
36:27
I had a private practice, so I would try to
36:30
go ahead on and add a patient to my schedule.
36:34
But I said, there's nowhere that the patients can go
36:36
into to have an immediate appointment. Nowhere. So I started
36:41
to do some research. I said, they have to have
36:45
mental health walking clinics or crisis So I'm doing my
36:49
research and I see there's mental health urgent cares in
36:53
different states. I'm like, okay, well Louisiana should have at
36:57
least one inn see. So I said, you know what,
37:02
this is something that I need to do if nobody
37:04
else is doing it. This is something that I need
37:08
to do. I need to do the work. And I
37:12
already have been Ito's on the ground in the community.
37:20
So I said, I can do this, I can do this,
37:25
and here you are and here I am.
37:29
Speaker 1: When you walked in those doors and you looked at
37:33
the building or the facility or the area, what let
37:37
me double back? When it came to the area. Was
37:41
it a specific area you were looking for? Did you
37:43
just say, uh, I just want to go here, I
37:46
want to go because you could have went anywhere. You
37:48
could have went across the river, like you could have
37:51
went uptown, you could have went anywhere. Why buy water?
37:57
Speaker 5: So actually this building was the previous urgent Carry eleven. Okay,
38:04
so I had visited this building prior, right, you remember
38:09
urging Carry eleven during COVID. Yeah, so the new doctor
38:14
Jones had been here several times. So I wanted a
38:21
facility first where my patients could access me had to
38:28
be on the bus line. So found it. It was vacant,
38:35
it's on the bus line, and I said, this this
38:40
is a community. You know the need here, you know
38:44
by water area. Here is the need. This is where
38:50
I need to be.
38:53
Speaker 1: And that's all that's over there in that area is
38:56
the homeless people.
38:58
Speaker 5: You can drive down the street and you see this
39:03
is where. Yeah, I need to be.
39:12
Speaker 1: I'm over here. Literally, I'm shaken, literally because I am
39:21
witnessing greatness right now. I mean, my sister says, God
39:26
is not done with you. Your story has many, many
39:29
more chapters. Thank you, she say, but God, you have
39:33
a testimony that needs to be told. So I guess
39:36
our conversation. So I guess we did need to go
39:39
down that way. Yes, we needed to. Yeah, so here
39:44
we come. You sit down, you have this plan. You're like,
39:50
you know what, I got to make something happen. We
39:51
gotta do something for the city. There's no facilities here,
39:55
how is it? Then you go to the old COVID
39:59
eleven facility, You walk in the door. How did you know,
40:09
despite it being on a bus line in the area
40:12
that you wanted, how did you know this is the place?
40:16
This is the one right, this is where my people
40:20
are going to be.
40:21
Speaker 5: Yes. So if you remember urging carry eleven, it build it.
40:28
You walk in, it feels like home. It does not
40:31
feel like you are going into a doctor's Okay, you're
40:39
going into a facility. It feels like home. I wanted
40:43
a welcoming environment for my patience. I want them to
40:48
want to be at my not feel forced or oh
40:52
I just feel I have obligated to go. No, I
40:55
want you to want to be here, right, And that's
41:00
what I felt when I walked through those doors. I said,
41:05
this is it.
41:07
Speaker 1: And and that's and I tell people all the time,
41:12
therapists are like a car. You have to, you know,
41:16
find one that fits, yes, because not everybody is good
41:21
for your mental and that includes therapists, because there are
41:23
some that are just kind of like all they do
41:25
is sitting right. They don't challenge you, They don't you know,
41:29
get you to open up of things like that. But
41:32
with you and your facility, well, now that we have
41:37
it's a home. Now we have a home now. Yes see,
41:40
God gave you the foundation. He's already it's already been built.
41:43
God just says, now I needs you to make it
41:45
a home. When you signed on the dotted line for
41:50
that building, I want to know, thinking back here, this
41:56
fourteen year old young lady who experienced tragedy after tragedy
42:01
after tragedy, you signed an ek on that paper and
42:05
they say doctor Brittany or miss missus Brittany Harrison, here
42:10
are the keys. What did you say? I just want
42:15
to know what you said when I could just imagine
42:19
what you said. I want to know what did you say?
42:22
Speaker 5: I said, thank you God, because he's the only reason
42:29
that I'm here. He's the only reason why I was
42:33
able to get this facility I've seen. Is specifically, I said,
42:37
thank you God. That is what I said.
42:43
Speaker 1: Anything different if you could choose another So let me
42:48
ask you, is doctor Brittany, Yes, is there going to
42:51
be another mind for horizons?
42:56
Speaker 5: That is the plan, That is steph That.
43:01
Speaker 1: Is definitely God's plan. She'll say, because my sister say,
43:05
she say, because gentle shut down mental Because gentle Jendle
43:09
shut mental facilities down, and it truly hurt Louisiana. It did, did, Yes,
43:14
it did because a lot of the patients were either
43:17
coming to Houston or they were going to Atlanta. And
43:21
when the funding was cut everywhere, I said, you know
43:27
this is this is going to hurt the world, and
43:34
here you are saving it, one little neighborhood at a time,
43:38
one neighborhood, one area at a time. So mindful, Horizons, y'all.
43:44
I'm gonna be quiet because I'm gonna let Doctor B
43:47
tell y'all about mindful Horizons. I'm gonna post her contact
43:51
information because let me tell y'all, I'm going to New
43:56
Orleans soon. So if y'all y'all see me posting, So
44:01
if y'all see me taking a picture with Doctor B,
44:03
y'all gonna know I made it because guess what when
44:07
I take she said, yes, it was because when I
44:10
tell you I've got to meet this woman in person,
44:15
I have to because this woman here because this is victorious.
44:22
So when people say you gotta get up and you
44:24
gotta keep going regardless if it hurts, look at this
44:28
woman right here. This woman endure a tragedy, have a tragedy,
44:34
have a tragedy, and she's still here with us. Doctor B.
44:40
God says, whatever you set forth, I'm gonna fulfill whatever
44:47
path you take. I'm gonna hold your hand, even if
44:49
I got to carry you the rest of the week.
44:53
Your testimony is nothing short of amazing. I just want
45:00
you to know I am grateful again, and I'm gonna
45:02
keep giving you your flowers to be in your presence
45:07
in this moment. Not only are your beautiful outside but inside.
45:13
I love what you're doing. But I'm gonna be quiet.
45:17
I'm gonna let doctor bree, Doctor B tell y'all about
45:20
Mindful Horizons the mission statem, because let me tell you, y'all,
45:24
her mission statement and everything that she stands is beautiful, y'all.
45:28
I follow the page. I can't wait to see her
45:31
on other platforms. But again, I'm gonna give the floor
45:35
to you, Doctor B. Give us a little more background
45:38
about mind for Horizons. What does it entail? How can
45:42
we get in touch with you? Do you take patience
45:47
from out of state? I'm not gonna bombard you with
45:49
with Google questions, but I'm gonna let you finish. And
45:52
then I want to know are you for everybody or
45:57
is it just Louisiana residence? You know, Louisiana residence. And
46:00
I'm gonna go on mute and I'm gonna be quiet.
46:02
So doctor B has the four y'all.
46:04
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, well Ashley for now, for now, it's
46:10
on for Louisiana residents for now. So yes, my Horizons.
46:17
Urgent Care is a mental health facility where we accept
46:21
walk in clients. Walk in meaning you don't have to
46:28
schedule an appointment, so you can be physically present or
46:33
you can be virtually present. Now you have the option
46:37
to schedule if you want to schedule, but that is
46:40
not mandated. So one of our providers will see you
46:44
on that day that you call email or requests an
46:49
appointment if you request an appointment, but if you just
46:52
walk in through those doors, you will be seen. So
46:55
we provide crisis stabilization, psychatric evaluations, medication management, and brief
47:04
therapy services. We collaborate with therapists at mental health agencies
47:12
that provide community supportive psychiatric support services, so we have
47:19
all pro and five parts. Are two agencies that we
47:22
refer to for those services as well as anticipate our
47:27
patient program services with crushing addiction for our dual diagnosis
47:33
patients who required some intervention with suctions abuse. We also
47:41
have a community nurse that goes to the homes for
47:46
patients who are on long acting injectables, so if they
47:52
can't get over here to the clinic, they can schedule
47:55
with our nurse and the nurse will come to the
47:57
homes or wherever they may be to give them their injection.
48:02
And that is also for our suptance abuse clients as well.
48:06
So we provide the Vivatross supplicated all of those injectibles.
48:14
We also have medication that we keep here Bible crisis
48:20
patients to stabilize them just in case they may not
48:25
need because we don't want to have to send a
48:27
patient to the hospital, right so if we can stabilize
48:31
them here, that's our goal. We want to stabilize them
48:35
and keep them out of the hospital. So we have
48:38
medication to treat them here, and we arrange for follow
48:42
up sessions within seven days to have ongoing management with
48:47
these patients. If there is a need for a patient
48:51
to go into the hospital, we can do that here
48:56
as well with a PEC. But these patients will bypass
49:02
the AR So I have direct and mid privileges with
49:06
several of the hospitals where they can be transported directly
49:10
to the hospital and not have to sit in any
49:12
emergency room.
49:14
Speaker 1: Yes, so, my sister, she posted, she said up surrounding
49:19
the seventh, eighth, ninth, Ward, Gentelly, she's a perfect area
49:22
for your facility. Thank you so much for this much
49:24
needed facility. Yes, she said, yeah, And she said yes Lord.
49:31
But God, let me tell you, doctor Britney. So if
49:35
I was to send someone how many positions do you
49:38
currently have now and are you looking for other positions also?
49:44
Speaker 5: So it's too We have two providers currently on staff.
49:48
We are on board and another one up by January.
49:52
We have another psycho pede that's joined the practice by January.
49:57
Speaker 1: So what is your goal?
49:59
Speaker 5: Yes?
49:59
Speaker 1: How many? How many physicians are you wanting to have
50:03
in the facility before the second one opens, because I'm
50:06
speaking the second one into existence, and I really believe
50:09
I think this second one I'll probably be a meta resome.
50:11
I don't know, y'all. I'm just speaking, Okay, I'm speaking.
50:15
I'm speaking this over her because I want to see
50:19
her expand Yes, what is your goal?
50:23
Speaker 5: So the goal I would like to have at least
50:25
one more provider because I want to have extended hours,
50:28
so we want to cover the weekends, late evening hours
50:33
to provide support for all of our patients. So if
50:38
I could have one more provider by next year, before
50:43
the next Mindful opens, that's the goal.
50:46
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and that's that's and I say the second
50:49
one because this first one, let me tell you, baby,
50:53
you don't you don't you don't bluele those down with
50:55
this one? You have you blue to those down with
50:58
this one, because when that second one opens up, you're
51:03
gonna start a trend because everybody's gonna want to follow you. Now,
51:07
everybody's gonna want to say, you know what, we need
51:09
to open up one here in Shriporter. Maybe we need
51:11
to open up one here in Home. Maybe we need
51:13
to open up in Apollo. But dippolusis ban rouge or something.
51:17
You have set a trend. I just want you to
51:20
know that, because I really feel like somebody's gonna follow suit.
51:25
What's gonna make you stand out is because of who
51:27
you are. And you didn't start this. You didn't get
51:32
into this because this is what you wanted to do.
51:34
God called you into this. This was your calling. Yes,
51:38
at fourteen years old, you had a calling over your
51:41
life and you didn't even know it. God says, I'm
51:47
gonna take you through this because I wanna test you
51:51
and I'm gonna see if you're gonna pass. And this
51:54
is why God has opened his door for you. And
51:57
He's gonna open another door for you, and another and
52:00
another door, and then before you know it, it's gonna
52:03
be five or sixty seven Mindful horizons through the State
52:05
of Louisiana. Not just in New Orleans, y'all see, I'm
52:08
speaking this over. I'm speaking this because I want this
52:11
for her. I want this for her, I want this
52:14
for our community. I want it for the people that
52:16
look like me and you. Yes, and God gave you, you,
52:21
not me, you the gift to do so. So walking
52:27
in those doors, your first patient, what was that experience?
52:34
The very first person that walked through the door. And
52:37
I know you're like, why did she ask me that?
52:41
I want to know in your mind when that first
52:45
person walked in your door at your home, and I
52:49
mean Mindful horizons, your home, our home, what did you say?
52:54
How did you feel?
52:58
Speaker 5: I felt very very happy, very happy, very excited. I
53:03
wanted to know how the patient felt when they walked in.
53:08
What was their experience? How did they feel when they
53:13
saw this environment? Did they feel like they were in
53:18
a welcoming environment where they felt at peace and tranquil
53:23
Because that's the goal for Mindful. When you walk through
53:26
the doors, you should see the waterfall going, You should
53:29
see these neutroube yet bright and vibrant colors to make
53:34
you just feel happier. No matter what state you're currently in,
53:38
you feel happier when you walk through those doors and mindful.
53:42
I wanted to know if that patient felt that way,
53:46
and they did.
53:47
Speaker 1: So when this second facility opens, because it's going to open,
53:53
I'm speaking at that's gonna happen. Maybe in twenty twenty seven,
53:59
maybe twenty twenty six. I don't know, we'll see. But
54:02
I just today, in this moment, do you feel accomplished
54:13
or is there still more left for doctor Be to do?
54:18
Speaker 5: It's still more left. It is still more left for
54:21
me to do.
54:22
Speaker 1: Can you give us a little just a little a
54:25
little midget. Don't don't give us everything, Just give us
54:28
a little taste. You know how your mama used to
54:31
let your taste the little cake batterle just and you
54:34
was like, but Mama, I want someone eye. You're gonna
54:35
get this little spool and you're gonna go on your way.
54:38
What is left for doctor Be to do? Give us
54:42
just a little taste, just a little bit. You don't
54:45
have to tell us everything, Just give us a little bit.
54:47
What is there left for doctor Be to do?
54:50
Speaker 5: So? Right now at the state that mind boys, and
54:53
I want to be able to, like I mentioned earlier,
54:57
to offer these extended hours for patience Okay, I want
55:04
to be able to be open late night hours because
55:07
you know, as we all know, we have a lot
55:10
of crisis that occur, yes, ma'am, at late evening hours,
55:14
when people are away from the work environment. They're just
55:19
coming back home and have to sit in that space
55:22
some of them. Some people are home alone. That's that
55:26
isolation comes in and the mind starts to go the
55:32
raising thoughts. And people have suffer from ensignment, a lot
55:35
of anxiety, things that keep them up at night when
55:39
they're very overwhelmed. Right, I want them to have a
55:44
place to go, someone to call at that moment.
55:48
Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about like a hotline, maybe like
55:51
a that would be beautiful because I know you said
55:56
the extended hours and you know the weekends phone numbers
56:00
like a rescue No, And I really don't want to
56:04
call it a rescue line, but I guess you could
56:07
say when a crisis line there you go. Is that
56:10
in talks for a mindful horizon or is that just
56:13
something where you're just like, let me just kind of
56:15
get in, get established, and.
56:16
Speaker 5: Now that's definitely in talks.
56:20
Speaker 1: Definitely excited for that. Yes, when I tell you this
56:26
has been and y'all. I didn't get emotional. I got
56:30
a little bit emotional, y'all, A little bit y'all. Y'all
56:32
should be proud of me. I didn't. I didn't break
56:34
down and boohoo cry to day. But one thing that
56:39
you could say to a person that could potentially be struggling,
56:47
might be struggling, has overcome the struggle, maybe somebody that
56:56
doesn't have anywhere to turn. What is your advice? Your advice?
57:04
Speaker 5: I want to let them know that there is hope.
57:07
There is someone here that is willing to care, who
57:14
hears you, who understands the struggle that you are going through,
57:22
not just someone that's just looking out from the outside
57:26
that has not went through this same journey that you
57:33
may be experiencing. There's someone here that can relate.
57:38
Speaker 1: You got a hug, You got hugs. Thank you, big Papa.
57:42
You know we love your baby. But I want to
57:46
say this, Doctor B, as someone that has struggled mentally,
58:00
what would you say to me you didn't know me.
58:03
I come in and I say, doctor B, I'm struggling,
58:10
and I tell you everything that's going on. What is
58:13
one thing you would say to me?
58:19
Speaker 5: I will tell you that you are not alone. You
58:26
are not alone. You can do this. We will work together, right,
58:32
because so many patients feel like they are struggling by themselves.
58:41
They feel like they have to deal with their mental
58:45
illness alone, and that's not how it should be. You
58:54
should be able to work along with your provider. It's
58:57
a collaborative effort. You should be able to contact them
59:05
when there is a need. You should not have to
59:10
wait weeks and weeks to speak to your provider when
59:15
you are going through something on a daily basis, you
59:19
should be able to feel that that provider actually listens
59:26
to you, right, not just there to just write medication.
59:32
That provider wants to actually know how is your day?
59:36
How is how are things going at work? How are
59:39
things going at the home? How are your kids? All
59:43
of these things matter right daily, what you are enduring
59:49
in your daily life matters. If you don't have a
59:54
provider that's doing that for you, you're seeing the wrong person,
59:59
because how can some one treat you and write any
1:00:03
type of medication for you, or give you any type
1:00:07
of advice clinically to guide you if they don't want
1:00:14
any insight into how your life is on a daily basis.
1:00:22
Speaker 1: I tell you you choked me up with that. Oh
1:00:28
you choked me up with that. When I felt that
1:00:30
in my throat, I was like, I know she's finna
1:00:33
make me cry. I know she's about to make me
1:00:35
do it, because that's exactly what my therapist told me.
1:00:39
She said, It's like a car. You gotta test drive them.
1:00:41
You gotta make sure that's the one the right fit
1:00:44
for you, she said, because everybody is not here to
1:00:47
save your mental sometimes they just want to give you
1:00:50
medication and send you on your way. So doctor B,
1:00:56
I'm not gonna hold you any longer, but I do
1:01:00
want to post your contact information because I want I
1:01:04
do have Like I said, I have family in New
1:01:07
Orleans still that need your services, So I need I
1:01:16
need to post your information, y'all. I'm gonna post it
1:01:18
on my Facebook page how you can get in touch
1:01:21
with doctor doctor B and let and let her know
1:01:27
I sent you. Let doctor B know. H m hm.
1:01:42
I'm trying to get it together because you're not supposed
1:01:47
to do this to me. But I want to say
1:01:50
to you, doctor B, thank you mm hmm, thank you
1:01:54
for sharing who you are.
1:01:56
Speaker 7: Yeh?
1:01:58
Speaker 1: Is that my girl? Makeisha girl? I love her so much.
1:02:03
Let me tell you that is doctor B's right hand girl,
1:02:07
right that. When I tell y'all I had a conversation
1:02:11
with Miss mkishe when I tell you she had me
1:02:13
crying on the phone because I was so anxious. I
1:02:16
was so excited. I was like, oh my gosh. I
1:02:18
was like, I've been trying to get therapists and everything
1:02:20
because this is this is my avenue. This, this is
1:02:23
because I advocate, because I'm the face of depression and anxiety.
1:02:26
I'm the face of it. But being able to just
1:02:34
do this with her today, Miss Makeisha, I send flowers
1:02:38
to you, baby, your dinner whatever, see the information. Your
1:02:44
dinner is gonna be on me. I promise you.
1:02:47
Speaker 5: I told you.
1:02:49
Speaker 1: She did shake awe me and she really had met
1:02:55
crying on the phone. She was like, don't be don't cry,
1:02:57
You're gonna be all right. I was like, but you
1:02:59
just don't stand you know, because I want to push
1:03:03
this conversation. But I do want to say to you,
1:03:06
Doctor B, thank you for being so vulnerable and transparent
1:03:11
in this space. Thank you for opening mind for horizons.
1:03:17
Shout out to this lady right here at the top,
1:03:19
Miss Makisha I'm telling y'all that it's her right hand. Okay,
1:03:22
you want to talk, you want to get with doctor B.
1:03:24
You gotta go through this lady right here. I promise you,
1:03:26
and she and baby and this one will she protects
1:03:29
Doctor B. Like her life depends on what I promise you,
1:03:33
because I mean she when I tell you she she
1:03:38
read me down like she she she interrogated me. Okay,
1:03:42
so what is this? What are we doing? What is this?
1:03:44
I need to know? No problem. I got you, So
1:03:49
I want to end with this, Doctor B. Don't you
1:03:54
ever give up answer your calling? Because God said that
1:04:01
for a reason. He puts you where you are for
1:04:03
a reason. You're now the voice for the voiceless. You understand,
1:04:07
because we didn't have you ten twenty years ago, we
1:04:10
didn't have you. We didn't have a Doctor B. You
1:04:15
are nothing short of amazing. Thank you for the conversation.
1:04:22
Any words you want to leave us with as we
1:04:25
get ready to bring this to a close, anything you
1:04:29
want to share, anything that anybody that may be trying
1:04:32
to get into doing what you're doing, whatever it is.
1:04:35
I want to know what your model is. What do
1:04:37
you say to yourself every day to get motivated, empowered,
1:04:42
uplifted and encouraged. What can you say leave us with?
1:04:46
Speaker 5: Yeah? Every day I say to myself I have a purpose.
1:04:55
I have a purpose and if I could save one
1:04:59
life a.
1:05:00
Speaker 1: Lot, you didn't say that, it's not what you say, Yes,
1:05:09
it was meant. I say that on all my podcasts.
1:05:14
Like I was telling Ms Makisha, I don't do this
1:05:16
for Cloud. I don't do this for money. I do
1:05:19
this because this is what I love to do. And
1:05:21
if I can make a difference in one person, then
1:05:24
I've done exactly what God has called me to do.
1:05:27
Black Girl Interrupted, it's us. It's not me, not my
1:05:32
this is us because we're black girls with interruptions. Yes,
1:05:37
so over here on Black Girl Interrupted, you're always welcome,
1:05:39
even if it's just a pop in and say hey,
1:05:42
how y'all doing, even if it's something to say whatever,
1:05:45
You're always welcome on Black Girl Interrupted podcast. Like I say,
1:05:49
I don't do this for Cloud. I don't do this
1:05:51
for money. I don't promote in hopes of getting paid.
1:05:55
I do this because I love doing this. I want
1:05:58
to do this full time. So if you see Black
1:06:00
Girl Interrupted in lights somewhere, whatever it is, if you're
1:06:04
hosting an event and you want me to come, and
1:06:07
baby called me, I'm coming. I'm five and a half
1:06:09
hours away. Like I said, I'm in Houston. I'm right
1:06:11
down the street. Baby. It ain't nothing for me to
1:06:12
get on ten by ten. Okay, no problems at all.
1:06:16
But Papa Falcon says, God bless you both Ashley and
1:06:22
doctor b And then my sister says, I love this.
1:06:26
We've been like when I tell you when we got
1:06:28
the message, me and her, we've been hyped up ever
1:06:31
since I've been called. I was like, ooh, Sis, today
1:06:33
is the day is coming.
1:06:34
Speaker 8: Girl.
1:06:35
Speaker 1: I was so acient, girl. I was rushing in people out.
1:06:36
I was like, y'all, I gotta go. I gotta hurry
1:06:38
if I gotta get up man, y'all whatever, But mindful horizons, everybody.
1:06:45
This is the owner and CEO again, the first mental
1:06:50
health urgent care clinic in the state of Louisiana, and
1:06:53
this is the first woman to do it. So y'all
1:06:56
give her her accolades, y'all give her flowers. Let me
1:06:58
see if my little thing's gonna work. Look me see
1:07:00
if I could uh, could you hear it? Could you
1:07:05
hear the classic. Okay, I got my little sound effects,
1:07:08
so y'all I'm trying to familiar rise myself with these
1:07:10
little sound effects and all that other good.
1:07:15
Speaker 5: Yeah.
1:07:17
Speaker 1: But doctor B I want to say this to you again,
1:07:20
thank you so much for even taking a time out
1:07:23
to sit down and even have a conversation with me
1:07:25
here on Black Girl Interrupt the podcast. I will be
1:07:29
back doing my wellness Wednesdays, so again, you're more than welcome.
1:07:33
My podcast will be back in full swing next week.
1:07:36
So I do go live on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and
1:07:39
I talk about everything mental health, I talk about sexual assault, everything.
1:07:44
So if you ever want to just pop in and
1:07:47
just say hey, ash Girl, what's going on? You guys
1:07:50
are more than welcome. My door is always open. Like
1:07:54
I said, if you have a T shirt, anything you
1:07:55
want me to wear, I will wear it. I will
1:07:57
promote your brand whatever it is, I'll advertised. You don't
1:08:01
owe me anything nothing, I just want you to keep
1:08:04
being great. That's the only thing I want you to
1:08:05
do is to keep being great. That's it. That's all
1:08:07
I asked you to do. Nothing no money, no, no
1:08:11
no shout outs, no, just keep being great.
1:08:16
Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you so much.
1:08:18
Speaker 1: You are more than welcome. Be and here go your flowers.
1:08:21
Someone gave you your flowers so much. Absolutely, absolutely, doctor
1:08:28
I love you. God bless you. Makeisha. We are definitely
1:08:31
got to be in touch because, like I said, I'm
1:08:33
coming to the city probably in a couple of weeks. Okay,
1:08:36
we'll see, but I am definitely walking in the door
1:08:39
of mind for horizons.
1:08:41
Speaker 7: Come on.
1:08:43
Speaker 1: I'm just coming to give you a hook. That's it.
1:08:45
I just I just want to tell you in person.
1:08:48
Congratulations and I'm so proud of you.
1:08:50
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
1:08:51
Speaker 1: Thank You're welcome.
1:08:53
Speaker 5: Baby, Please thank you.
1:08:56
Speaker 1: Don't change who you are, say who you are.
1:08:58
Speaker 5: Yes, we love you, love you to thank you so much.
1:09:03
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And y'all, Black Girl Interrupted will be back, y'all know,
1:09:07
Tuesdays and Wednesdays every night at seven pm Central time
1:09:10
APM Eastern time. Y'all know. We talk about everything over
1:09:13
here and Black Girl Interrupted, y'all we are coming back
1:09:16
because we got around out the year. We're rolling into
1:09:19
the holidays, Doctor B. I do want to ask you, Oh,
1:09:21
there's my husband there he is, Hey, love, that is
1:09:25
my husband. He say, what's going on? So doctor B,
1:09:30
I do want to I would love if and we
1:09:32
could talk about this off off camera. I would love
1:09:35
to bring you back because the holidays are about to
1:09:38
roll around, yes, and holidays are rough, yes, you know sometime.
1:09:44
You know, this is the first year for some people,
1:09:46
this is the second year. This might be the twentieth
1:09:49
ye or fortieth year. I don't know. But I would
1:09:52
love just to bring you back, just just for a moment,
1:09:54
just to give us some tips on how to get
1:09:56
through the holiday blues. That's all.
1:09:58
Speaker 5: Yes, Oh I was definitely to that.
1:10:00
Speaker 1: Definitely, absolutely so. Y'all, y'all go follow doctor Brittany Harrison.
1:10:05
She is on Instagram. I'm gonna post all her information.
1:10:08
I'm gonna post mindful Horizons. I'm gonna post the address,
1:10:11
the phone number how you can get in contact with her. Y'all,
1:10:15
don't sit alonge, We see you. We love you, Okay,
1:10:17
I promise you. You're not by yourself, and it's okay to
1:10:20
not be okay, it is. But this woman, baby, we're
1:10:28
doing that with them, charing with them, little chair and
1:10:30
do whatever it is they whatever it is. I don't
1:10:31
know how, I don't know, and I don't know all
1:10:34
of it. But doctor be I do want to say
1:10:36
thank you again so much for coming on Black Girl
1:10:37
interrupted the podcast tonight. It was my pleasure being able
1:10:40
to sit and have a beautiful conversation. I'm so sorry.
1:10:43
I did not mean to make your cry.
1:10:44
Speaker 5: I promise it's okay. I needed it intent.
1:10:48
Speaker 1: But I'm going to let doctor Harrison go, and y'all
1:10:52
know I'm gonna close it out. But I love y'all.
1:10:55
God bless you, Doctor b and I'm gonna send a
1:10:59
follow up to you. I have your email address. I'm
1:11:03
gonna send you something, even if it's an edible arrangement,
1:11:07
just something because you're nothing.
1:11:09
Speaker 5: Yes, I do no, I appreciate this. I really appreciate it.
1:11:14
Thank you for inviting me.
1:11:15
Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am, well think you think you? Thank you's so much,
1:11:17
Doctor b Uh. Again, they're your flowers, everyone says, God
1:11:22
bless you. They're sending hugs. And this will not be
1:11:27
then that you see doctor Harrison over here on Black
1:11:30
Girl in throughout the podcast. So if she hasn't event
1:11:32
and y'all see me there, mayya business many your business.
1:11:38
But I love you, doctor b again. I will let
1:11:40
you go because I know you have had a long day.
1:11:42
I know you're ready to go home and unwind. Oh
1:11:45
God bless you. And again I will reach out to
1:11:47
you on the back end.
1:11:48
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you.
1:11:50
Speaker 1: Thank you. Bye, see you later, I should say, because
1:11:54
I don't ever say bye bye. It's too final. Yes,
1:11:59
all right, y'all, man, this was such an amazing, amazing
1:12:03
show tonight. When I tell y'all, just being able to
1:12:07
be in the presence with doctor Harrison, y'all was nothing
1:12:12
but God. I just want to say to y'all. I
1:12:16
love y'all. Thank y'all so much for supporting me on
1:12:21
my journey. I appreciate y'all just standing in the gap
1:12:27
with me. I appreciate y'all loving on me despite everything
1:12:30
that I've been going through, y'all have still stood strength
1:12:33
and tall for me. I love y'all. Black Girl Interrupted.
1:12:37
We'll be back next week Tuesday, seven pm Eastern seven
1:12:40
pm Central Time APM Eastern time. We back to the
1:12:44
regular program. Y'all know how it gets down. But on
1:12:47
that note, I'm gonna go ahead and bring this to
1:12:49
a close. I love y'all so so much. God bless y'all.
1:12:54
I will keep y'all up to date and let y'all
1:12:57
know how everything is. Love y'all. Oh, Hello, see y'all
1:13:02
next week. God bless see Yah