What happens when the "Strong Black Woman" trope begins to actively compromise your physical health? How do you navigate a life-altering career or personal transition when your internal world feels like a category five hurricane?

In this deeply restorative and clarifying episode of the Black and Diagnosed Podcast, host Gerron Scott steps into the Sanctuary with Dr. Valerie Daniel, a licensed psychotherapist in private practice who specializes in guiding women of color through major life changes and transitions. Together, they take off the clinical mask to look closely at what it takes to protect your peace, construct unshakeable boundaries, and redefine self-care from the inside out.

Dr. Daniel breaks down her essential three-pronged therapeutic framework—analyzing transitions at the micro (individual self-care), meso (family and comm ...