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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #91 _HOST QUEEN ANGELA & APOSTLE TAMELA · DA CREW Podcast

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I didn't un mute, but welcome, Welcome, Welcome. I want
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to welcome you guys to the ninety first episode of the Crew podcast. So
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tonight we're gonna be filling the end for Natalie y'all. She's on vacation and
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she's stuck in the air. So tonight we're gonna be talking about natural mental
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minority mental health awareness. So me and my ssid Key, let me bring
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our own up. Let me bring our own up. We're gonna be talking
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about some mental health on tonight. Since this is minority Mental Health Aware this
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month, I'm just gonna share some different things to hopefully help someone on tonight.
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So for those that don't know who I am, I am Angela Thomas
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Smith. I am one of the co owners of the Prow podcast, and
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I'm also going to be a host soon. So welcome, welcome, welcome,
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and my side keep tonight is Hello. I'm Apostle Tamla Lucas, and
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my ministry has come home. Stop talking about it, and we talk about
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everything. You know what I was growing up, churches didn't talk about everything,
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but I talk about everything, because why when we leave out those poor
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doors, we have to live and we have to teach people how to live
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in this world each day. So I'm glad we're talking about mental health.
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I talked about this all the time because it's necessary, even though people want
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to keep people to the curb and tell people just pray about it. No,
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it has to you have to go deeper than prayer. So I'm glad
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we're talking about this tonight. Well, I want to think that wanted me
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tonight and in UM, before we get started, I really would like,
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UM, if you would lead us in a prayer. UM, if you
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would hallelujah. They're heavy. Father, we just give you praise and glory
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and honor. We thank you for being a long suffering God. I understand
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that God, you said, there is nothing that we go through that you
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you know can't feel. You can feel our pain, you can feel a
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hurt, you can feel our sadness, our loneliness, anything that we go
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through you can feel that, hallelujah. And that's why you had allowed us
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halleluzh to come together, hollelup, to love on each each other. You
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gave us different things to do, hollelujah, to equip us hallelujah, so
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we can have a successful life. Lord, because your words that day they
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keep their mind state on thee, you would keep them in perfect peace.
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Hallelujah. So Lord, we thank you right now halleluacause we need a solution.
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People need solution hallelujah. How do they keep their mind and perfect peace?
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Halleluahen things is just happening over and over and over again. We just
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thank you Lord because you say you're going to lead a comforteror here for us.
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Hallelujah. So we thank you Lords that you're leading guidance. Lord,
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give us the strength that we need, the understanding that we need, the
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guidance. We thank you, hallelujah for your word. We thank you for
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just placing different people of different walks in our lives to help us, to
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push us and to help us stay on a narrow way. Oh Lord,
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we're asking that we reached somebody and change somebody, Halleluiah. And Jesus name
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Amen. Amen, I definitely thank this opportunity. Wants to be able to
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share and just touch on um mental health on tonight. We're not gonna be
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before you guys very long. UM. We just want to when when I
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started the prow podcast, UM, and I'm so grateful for Apostle Tamla because
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she will come along and and and and and and just about protect on anything
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that I present before her. And we was just trying to figure out something
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that we could do to give back, um, being that we were podcasters
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and that we were doing different things. So this is how the Crew podcast
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really begun. And tonight we're stepping in and we're being home because we have
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to do what we have to do to make sure that this network, um,
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it's being fulfilled and that we are doing what was placed in our heart,
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and that is to be able to provide content, to be able to
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provide resources, and to be able to provide things that somebody may need out
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here. You know, they may be tuning in. You never know when
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when people expect you to be on, they expect you to be on,
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and you never know what the next person may be going through. So we're
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we're always here to step in and to do what we have to do.
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Tonight, I just want to share some statistics UM I was looking at and
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when we talk about minority mental health, and minority does not just mean US
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brown, US black people, US African American UM. You have also included
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in minority, have the Hispanic community and and and those communities too have been
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affected by this this this mental health discrepancy I guess you would say, or
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disparity UM that they have UM because a lot of people I know, with
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a lot of brown people, we don't like to talk about it. We
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don't like to to go out and seek outside help. We don't like to
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let people know what's going on. They we have this mentality of what's going
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on in our home, stay in our home. We don't want it to
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come outside our home, and we're afraid of what people are gonna think.
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But I'm telling you, you're looking at someone that battle depression for I want
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to say fifteen sixteen years and did not know what it was because no one
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never really explained to me what I was going through. And until I went
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through domestic violence and was diagnosed with PTSD and and had to deal with all
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of that that I find find out that I had been battled in depression all
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those years. So you know what, I had to go lay on that
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couch. I not only had to see a psychiatrist, I had to see
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two therapists. But you know what, I knew something was right. You
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know, I knew something wasn't right. But everybody don't understand and don't know
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that there's not something going wrong with them. So we like to share different
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little things. So tonight I'm gonna share this. It's say, in twenty
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twenty one, it was estimated that thirty nine percent of black or African American
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adults, twenty five percent of Asian adults, and thirty six percent of Hispanic
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and Latino adults were suffering from mental illness. And you think about the compared
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at the fifty two percent of none Hispanic whites. These people were actually getting
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the help that they needed, but we wouldn't. And and I look at
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the reasons why a lot of us don't get the necessary help that we need
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because a lot of times when we go to get help, they diagnose us
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with other stuff. They tell us other stuff is wrong with us, instead
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of what it's really going wrong. With us. So a lot of it
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is misdiagnosis and a lot of it is just lack of not knowing and not
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knowing. But tonight, um, we're gonna be coming from a couple of
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different angles. And again, we're not gonna be before you long. Um.
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I asked Apostle if she would give us some biblical scriptures, Um,
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some scriptures that we could share that would talk about mental illness and how you
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know, we we can move on past this, y'all. So I want
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her to share the scriptures and then we're gonna talk about it. If y'all
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have questions, y'all have comments, We want y'all to be We want y'all
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to interact in the comment section and let us know your thoughts, let us
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know your concerns. Okay, I'm coming from the first one. I got
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three stories to talk about. The first story is First Samuel chapter fifteen.
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No, I'm sorry, First Samuel chapter sixteen through verses fourteen. So First
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Samuel chapter sixteen, verse fourteen. But the spirit of the Lord departed from
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Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord trouble him, and Saul's servants
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say unto him. Behold now an evil spirit from God trouble thee. Let
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our Lord now command our servants which or before thee, to seek out a
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man who is a conning player of a heart. And it shall come to
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pass when the evil spirit from God is a pon thee, that he shall
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play with his hand, and thou shalt be well. And Saul said to
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his servants, provide me now a man that can play well, and bring
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him to me. Then answer one of the servants and said, behold,
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I had seen a son of Jesse. And the son of Jesse is David.
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And David was a person that he was a young boy, but he
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has so much faith, you know. And Saul he hated, he hated.
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But God used David to bring peace to Saul because Saul, because he
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had evil thoughts and evil ways. God, so, okay, you don't
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want to obey me. I'm gonna have these dames come to you. And
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so he was battling in his mind. But the only peace and comfort he
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can have was from a person who he called an enemy, and that was
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David. But David came, and David did not judge him. David came
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and he played the music. And when he played the music, saw he
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got peaceful, he got calmed down, and he was able to go to
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sleep and have peace in his mind. And so a lot of times people
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are going through things and oh, that's not the Bible. It isn't the
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Bible. People are suffering and all, and they suffered all different kind of
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ways. So that's one story of somebody suffering in that mind mentally. The
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next person is Elijah, and Elijah's First King's chapter nineteen and in First King's
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Chapter nineteen, verse four, and said, but he himself went a day's
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journey until the wilderness, and came and sat down under the juniper tree.
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And he requested for himself that he might die, and say, it is
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enough now, old Lord, take away my life, for I am not
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better than my father's. And as he laid and slept under the juniper tree,
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behold, then an angel touched him and said to him, a rise
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and eat. What happened to this powerful man? This was a man who
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went against a whole bunch of prophets and won the battle. He said,
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if your gods is so real, tell them to, you know, do
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something. And it was calling on these different idols for nothing. Came down
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and he waited, and so they looked at him. He said, okay,
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now I'm about to call my guy. And when he called his God
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fired from heaven, came down and burnt all those false prophets up. Now
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he won this battle. But when Jezebel said she was gonna get him,
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fairy came. And sometimes it don't matter how big time you are, how
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famous you are, it doesn't matter who you are. Your man, your
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mind will forget that you are on the Lord, say, your man will
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forget the all the victories you have won. And when you face was something
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you'll forget. And he forgot. How do that? He had victory over
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and over again. This was a man who could go outside and tell the
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whether to change. All he had to do was speak it. But he
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ran because fear came. And when fear came, depression came. And so
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when they said the pressious not in the Bible it is, he said,
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just let me die. Depression came over him because he didn't want to live
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no more. You know, his sadness came. He thought he was the
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only one out here. God said, you're not the only one out here,
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honllelujah. So God has to come for us and give us strength,
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hallelujah. And so there was another story in the Gospels where this man had
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a son that had a lunatic spirit, where he would cut himself and throw
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himself down and just do stuff like what did you doing? But God said,
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in order for these things to come out, hallelujah, you have to
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and this in Matthew chapter seventeen, verse fifteen, he said, in order
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for these things to come out, you have to pray and fasts. And
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a lot of people said that might just that's just too simple, that's just
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too simple. But let me tell you, you're looking at a person who
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when I was married to my first husband, he will play my games and
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go around and say this and that and do things and then come home and
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do something different. And when I was trying to explain to people what was
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on, they was like, girl, by, he's not doing that.
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And then it was hard trying to explain the evil when people love this person.
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So here I am. Depression came and so I went to my pastor.
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And you know, growing up in the Black Church, they tell you
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all the time you've been I go to no cancelor. You better not do
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this. You better trust God and let it go. Okay, what if
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you can't let it go, what if it's just too much pressure? And
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so I went to my pastor and I said, look right now, I
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got these three little babies, because my children was real little. I said,
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I got these three little babies, and all I see is myself driving
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off the cliff. Now I need some help. He said, you you
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want to drop out? I said, I want to drive out the cliff.
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That's where I'm at because I'm tired. Sometimes you can get bum bored.
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Were all different kind of stuff, and all people will say is girl,
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are you gonna be all right? All you gotta do is pray?
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All yeah, But what if you need more than that? Hallelujah? So
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sometimes you need more than that, and people will throw you off because they
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don't want to be bothered. They'll throw you off and push you to the
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side. And so I had to pray, and I said, you know
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what I'm gonna do. What this Bible say, I am going too fast?
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And so I start faster because that depression boar, it's something. And
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depressure will make you self sabotage yourself to the point h you'll have days you
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know, you look at people and they said, well, why the house
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look the way they look because they depressed. Because a depressed person is not
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gonna wash up. They're not gonna do their hair, they're not gonna clean
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up, they're not gonna do jack. And you better hope they pay their
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brand. You better hope they pay their bills, because when a person is
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in a deep impression, they let everything go because nothing matters no more.
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Because when your man is gone, is gone, and you don't care about
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who said this. You know, when you asking for help and you can't
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get the help you need, you let things go. So I've been through
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all that when it comes to mental health and all that stuff, I've been
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through all that. I even had a cousin that was sixteen years old.
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We was looking for her and she went to a cancer. But what she
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did was she took her life. She couldn't take it no more, especially
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what she and she took it like December twenty nineteen, right before the shutdown,
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you know, and it's like wow, So we have to learn how
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to reach people and quick kicking people to the side and tell him it's gonna
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be all right. We have to stop doing that. And the question said,
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if you please, can you go through Moses? Through Moses goal different
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kind of stuff going on. You gotta be very pacific because he had to
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face a lot. He had to runfle his life. He had to and
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people pick on him talk and when he was trying to talk to people,
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um, they didn't want to listen. They thought it was he was just
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a man. They didn't believe that God was actually talking to him. And
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then he got angry and upset because they went against the tip of manners.
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So, yeah, to tell you know, it's a lot. You gotta
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be very pacific when it comes to Moses because he had to face a lot.
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That's right, That's right. We had to meet people where they're at,
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We sure do, and sometimes in the place where you're willing to be
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like and talking about what I've been through because I don't want people to have
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to go through what I've been through, you know, So I oftentimes share
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and I tell people all the time, you don't have to suffer in silence,
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you know, I'm I'm working on these these poetry books given individuals an
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opportunity to share from places where they've they've hurt in silence. You know and
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and the series it's called Silently Hurting Inside. The first one was finding forgiveness
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because you had first you got to forgive yourself, forgive yourself, and then
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forgive all those around you so that you can move wrong. When you find
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forgiveness in your heart and let some of this stuff go, then I'll these
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depressions because depression and stuff that that's a spirit. That is a spirit and
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just like these spirits are jumping to and from that if you don't find,
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like I've shared in the comment section, some things that you can do to
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self care when I when we oftentimes talk about self care, and we oftentimes
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talk about you know, UM doing different things UM to make sure that we
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are okay? But are we every day? I heard Tavita on one of
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her shows talk about self checking and how she she did this self check.
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You know, we should be self checking ourselves every day. We should be
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looking in the mirror and and and and talking to ourselves, evaluating where we
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are and writing down different things and seeing how we are today and then going
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back tomorrow and making sure you know that if if there was an issue on
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yesterday, that I address that issue and if I can't address it personally,
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that I've reached out to someone that can help me address that issue. We
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we gotta we got to learn that we don't have to hurt in silence.
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Like God has given us people's He's given us psychiatrists, He's given us mental
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health professionals. He's given us all these people that he has equipped to be
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able to help us on this journey. He has he paid placed people because
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he knew that we were gonna need what we was gonna need in our lives.
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So all these people that are in place, they're in place to help
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us. They're not in place to just be there for show. Yeah,
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true enough, we get the word in us. But everything, like I
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hear a minister Alma say, you can't just slap all on everything and lay
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hands on everything. Some things. You sometimes you got to go lay down
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on that couch and you got to be able to get some of this stuff
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out. You had to be able to talk to somebody to let some of
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this stuff out, because just holding it in and praying about it, you
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ain't letting it go. I tell you, you've been telling me for a
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minute to go and and to finalize my divorce, and and I had been
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putting it off because I kept looking at that stack of papers, and it
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was just a whole bunch of papers. And I was just tired of papers
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and just tied of all kinds of stuff and just school, going to school
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and working on this magazine and doing all this, and I was just like
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that, just another stack of papers, and I was just looking at those
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papers over there. But the other day when I got out that that day
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when you called me and you told me, you know what I did.
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My sister came home that day and me and my sister sit down and in
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that living room, I got my papers back the other day. And sometimes
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you just got to be obedient. Now, I'll tell you, it seemed
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like so much was lifted off of me because I was obedient. Sometimes we
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just got to we got to go through that that that that check it ourselves.
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We got to check ourselves and then we got the end. We got
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to really see, okay, taking a walk. We got to do those
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things that that can help balance some of the things that are all out of
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whack. Because nine times out of ten, if if we're suffering from different
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things and suffering something in our body is out of balance, chemically out of
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balance, and sometimes we may need to get medication to balance it. Sometimes
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we may need to change our diet to balance it. Sometime we may need
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to change our environment. But there are resources out there. There's there so
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much out there that can help us. But I definitely I thank you for
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those scriptures. I thank you for taking time. I was trying to post
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on the um those those scriptures that you that you sent me that website so
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that everybody can go and check it out, because um, there are some
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scriptures that talk about depression, there's some scriptures that talk about anxiety. There's
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some scriptures that talk about these things. But I always if if if praying
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and reading the scriptures it seemed like it's not helping, then you got to
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reach out to somebody. Know that you can't You don't have to do this
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by yourself. You don't have to suffer in silence. You don't no longer
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how to hurt in silence. But again I'll tell you, I'm grateful for
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all of the individuals that did not think it robbery to to share in these
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poetry books and to share these anithologies, because some of them have been going
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through some stuff. I know me, being able to share in that first
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anithology um um Um soul for metamorphis, I tell you, being able to
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release that poem when I lost my cousin it helped me. And then going
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back after that book was published, and being able to read some of those
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other people's stories, being able to pick up that the short stories and in
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those portraits and be able to hear how they felt and what they was going
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through. Even the young lady that was on Patricia's show last night, she
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talked about why she started writing poetry because sometimes we just got to release some
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of this stuff that's inside of us. Because once we let some of this
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stuff go, sometimes we're holding on to hurt. We're holding on to disappointment,
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we're holding on to let down. We're holding on to this stuff.
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But when we release it and let it go and free it, then we
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begin to truly heal. I'm telling you, you got to stop letting Hinderance
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calls you to have an ego. We have these egos where we don't want
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to get no, we don't want to get no help, and then we
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then then those egos caused us to have an attitude, and then we walk
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around angry at the world. We walk around just moody. But when you
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allow yourself to stop a letting hinderance, egos and attitudes, you're able to
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move in love. And that's how you know you are healed. I tell
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you, when God dropped these words in my spirit and he break them down
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to me like that, now it allows me to truly get a get a
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grasp on some things, like I hear the word hell at the time,
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But when until He dropped it in my spirit like that, I realized that,
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hey, I was walking around him what a ego problem myself with an
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attitude? Why? Because I was holding on to stuff. I was allowing
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stuff to hinder me from progressing and moving in love. So tonight I challenge
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you allow yourself to heal. Stop allowing hinderance. That's the h Stop allowing
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that ego that you have built up. You built that ego up because you
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didn't want to let go, and that ego calls you to have an attitude.
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So you walk around mad at the world. You walk around having moved
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swings which keep you imbalanced and out of balancet. Allow your body to align
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so that you can move in love, so that he can take you to
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the next level so that you can be that leader that he's called you to
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be. I'm done, Apostle, I'm done. I'm done anything anything else
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you want to share said We were gonna be old here, but thirty mininess,
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it's we're thirty one minutes in, so we getting ready to close this
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thing on. I want to thank everybody that tune in, but a possible
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if you have something else that you would like to share before we close out
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the floor is yours. I just want to make sure that you heard her
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when she said, you gotta learn how to forgive. You gotta forgive yourself,
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and you gotta forgive all those who have hurt you, because not that
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sickness. Your body talks to you. Your body say you know what,
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You didn't let that go, and then stress comes and you get sick.
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And that's why people are having heart attesting strokes and they're getting sick and all
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weird kind of conditions is coming on your body because your body is screaming at
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you. So we gotta learn how to let things go and let God fix
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it. Let him fix it, and get out of his way. Like
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Travida said, stay out of God's business. Yeah, but I think you
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stepping in with me on tonight. I think those that have tuned in and
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I have shared some links in the comment section. If you are battling with
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any type of mental disorderance or disorder or illness, or any type of mental
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illness God, if you need health reach out. There are other black mental
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health professionals that look just like you, that can relate to you, that
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can assist you. It's not like it was back in the day. Well
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we didn't have no choice. We have qualified mental health professionals that look like
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us that can better address our issues. So no longer do you have to
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hurt in silence. Don't hurt in silence. It's help out here. And
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we've shared some links, We've shared some resources, and if you ever need
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to reach out to us, we are here. We are here to assist
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you and and and we may not be able to to to help you professionally.
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Now I'm not because I'm not known therapists, but I can I can
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talk you through anything that I've been through. I can I can share with
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you the things that I've been through and how I dealt with it, and
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I can put you on a path to the right person that can get you
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in get you on that path because we have mentally we have brown mental health
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professionals right here in this circle that's in the circle around us, that we
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that's been in our prayer group. So if you need somebody, y'all,
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we're here. We're here to help. So I appreciate you, guys.
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I hope that something that we've shared on tonight have been a blessing to you
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that will encourage you and that will keep you on this journey that we call
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life. Y'all. We only get one chance at this so I ask you
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tonight, are you living life or life happening around you? And if you
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want to live life more bundantly learn how to love more, Learn how to
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inspire somebody around you while you're inspiring yourself. Always have the fear of God,
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and learn how to move in encouragement and empowerment. Y'all. I love
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y'all, And until next time, we will be back on on Tuesday night.
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I think Pam maybe on Tuesday night. If she's not, you'll see
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You'll see us because guess what we are our sister and brother keeper and we
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got you. We love you, guys. And thank you for supporting the
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Crew podcast. Y'all have a great night. Tell you to have noon to
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Tuesday, but he ready to tell your truth. It allows someone to walk
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into their tree and join the Queen. Preserve your spot today only set I
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so shore. As I take your head and leads you to blows, the
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music dies. Something new