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Hey Reader,
I know February is almost packing her bags, but Black History Month is not over yet.
And let’s be real — Black history isn’t a 28-day pop-up shop. It’s everyday, all year, woven into the fabric of this country whether people want to acknowledge it or not. But since we are still in February, we’re going to keep talking about it.
Especially when it comes to mental health and neurodivergence — because Black women have been moving that needle forward long before it was trendy to talk about “healing” on Instagram.
Let’s give some flowers.
🖤 Mamie Phipps Clark
Young black boy deciding between a black and white doll.
Before we were casually throwing around the word “trauma,” Dr. Clark was out here doing the groundbreaking “doll studies” that exposed the psychological damage of segregation on Black children.
She co-founded the Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem — one of the first centers to provide mental health services to Black children and families.
She understood something we are still fighting to get people to understand:
Mental health is shaped by environment, racism, access, and opportunity.
Sound familiar?
🖤 Joy DeGruy
Book by Dr. Joy Degruy
Dr. Joy DeGruy introduced the concept of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome — examining how multigenerational trauma continues to impact mental health today.
Generational trauma isn’t just a buzzword. It’s research-backed. It’s lived. It’s embodied.
As someone who talks constantly about nervous system regulation, this matters. Trauma doesn’t evaporate because time passed. It embeds itself in bodies and belief systems.
🖤 Jennifer Mullan
Dr. Mullan is pushing the mental health field to look at colonialism, oppression, and systemic harm as mental health issues — not just “individual pathology.”
Translation? You are not broken in a vacuum.
Sometimes what we’ve labeled as anxiety, depression, or “too sensitive” is actually a nervous system responding to real injustice.
That perspective changes everything.
Representation at that level? Powerful.
And here’s the thing I want you to sit with:
Black women have been doing mental health advocacy often without funding, without visibility, without mainstream applause.
They were doing the work when therapy wasn’t cool. When trauma wasn’t a hashtag. When inclusion wasn’t a corporate buzzword.
So yes, we celebrate in February. But we also keep learning, listening, amplifying, and supporting every other month too.
Because mental health equity isn’t optional. Neurodivergent inclusion isn’t a trend. And healing — real healing — requires acknowledging who built the path before us.
Let’s keep advancing. Together.
Love Always, Amy Your Mental Health Warrior & Neurodivergent Advocate 💚
P.S. If you want to go deeper into these conversations, come join us inside my SKOOL community. Today we’re talking specifically about Bebe Moore Campbell’s contributions and why her work still matters so much. We get into the real stuff in there.
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