Therapy Isn't Just For White People with Kiara Imani
Black History for White People
Black History for White People
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🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Kiara Imani joins us to discuss her book "Therapy Isn't Just For White People." The book is a memoir chronicling her journey to understand the racial trauma experienced by many Black people in America and the underlying effect it has on Black mental health. Through therapy, Imani was introduced to the concept of racial trauma and discovered how her own unrecognized racial trauma affected her mental health, self-image, and worldview.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know what most white people in this country feel, but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institution. |
| 0:10.0 | Now, this is the evidence. |
| 0:14.0 | You want me to make an act of faith risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children, |
| 0:20.0 | on some idealism which you assure me |
| 0:23.9 | exists in America, which I have never seen. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome back to Black History for White People, a podcast where we educate, resource, and challenge |
| 0:33.5 | white people about black history. I'm Brad, and on today's show are my co-host Katina and |
| 0:38.7 | Garin. Today's topic is therapy isn't just for white people. Kiara Amani joins us. She is an |
| 0:45.4 | attorney and a co-host of a daily talk show on Los Angeles radio station KBLA. She's the co-founder |
| 0:50.7 | of Like You Cards and is also the author of the book, Therapy Isn't Just for White People. |
| 0:56.1 | The book is a brilliant memoir talking about Kiyara's compelling journey to understand |
| 1:01.4 | the racial trauma experienced by many black people in America and the underlying effect |
| 1:06.6 | it has on black mental health. |
| 1:08.1 | We had a great time talking with her, and so we hope you |
| 1:10.9 | enjoy the discussion. All right, you guys, we have a very special guest who is what I'm going to |
| 1:21.2 | call a master millennial. She is doing all the things. She's an attorney, a viral video celebrity. |
| 1:31.0 | She's TikTok famous. |
| 1:33.7 | She has a podcast, and she's a radio host. |
| 1:39.0 | She's done a lot of amazing things. |
| 1:42.0 | Her name is Kiara Imani. And we're so glad to have you today. Thank you for |
| 1:48.9 | joining us. Of course. Thank you for having me. Make me sound so cool. Well, you are so cool. |
| 1:55.1 | And we're excited to chat with you and hear about your story and your journey. The first question |
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