This Friday and Saturday…ALL over the Country “Psychologists and Activists Nationwide to Join Ferguson in Hosting Healing Initiatives This Weekend”

Hi Family!

I wanted to share an important event happening in our community.  “The Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) and Community Healing Network, Inc. (CHN) today announced that when they introduce Emotional Emancipation (EE) Circles, a grassroots healing initiative, in Missouri this weekend, Friday and Saturday, December 5 and 6, they will be joined in spirit with activists holding simultaneous events across the country. Psychologists and activists will host EE Circles in New Haven, CT, Tuskegee, AL, Baltimore, MD, Los Angeles, CA, Oakland, CA, and Portland, OR. EE Circle activists in the Caribbean, the UK, and Cuba will also be joining in spirit.”

The Los Angeles EEC will be facilitated by Dr. Chante’ DeLoach, Chair of Emotional Emancipation Initiatives for ABPsi, on Saturday December 6th from 1:30-3:30 pm.

“EE Circles are support groups in which Black people are working together to overcome and overturn the lie of Black inferiority–the root cause of the persistent devaluing of Black lives: people like Michael Brown in Ferguson, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and Eric Garner in New York City.”

Please share this information far and wide, as all are invited to participate!

Please see flyer for more information!

Press Release: http://blackprwire.com/press-releases/4423-bprw_psychologists_and_activists_nationwide_to_join_ferguson_in_hosting_healing_initiatives_this_weekend

#BlackLivesMatter #HandsUpDontShoot #ICantBreathe

-Dr. Bree

abpsi BLM EEC flyer revised

“Last Words”

I just saw this video by BuzzFeed Yellow (on YouTube and on Facebook as BuzzFeed Videos) and I was brought to tears! It’s a memorial for 11 individuals recently killed by police, and their final words before they died.  WE have to do better.  The WE is us as a society/community, us as people of color, us as a nation.  We have to be willing to discuss #racism in order to #AdvanceTheConversation.  We can no longer hide behind it.  It is our ugly truth and it is not going anywhere until WE talk about it.  Clearly it is still relevant and not a think of the past.

-Dr. Bree

R.I.P. Robin Williams

I initially wrote the text below on one of my social media sites.  

“Part of my professional and personal mission is to reduce the disparities of Mental Health services and to reduce the stigma of mental health/mental illness. It is so sad when I hear about anybody who has taken his/her life due to a MH/MI. Please encourage ANYONE you know suffering to reach out! NAMI Urban LA (in Leimert Park) is one place they can go locally to get referrals. There is NO SHAME in seeking services and we shouldn’t see it any different than going to any other health/medical provider! RIP Robin Williams”

-Dr. Bree