What happens when your internal architecture is built entirely on being the unshakeable pillar for everyone else? What happens when the constant performance of strength keeps your nervous system trapped on high alert?

In this deeply soulful and beautifully aligned episode of the Black and Diagnosed Podcast, host Gerron Scott welcomes you back into the Rhythmic Sanctuary for a powerful conversation with Dr. Candicee Childs, a writer, artist, and third-year psychiatry resident at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. In a stunning moment of synchronicity, Dr. Childs introduces a vivid "garden metaphor" for mental health that perfectly mirrors the podcast's cover art and heart.

Together, Gerron and Dr. Childs strip away the institutional clinical walls to unpack how we can actively clear out the overgrowth in our minds. Dr. ...