Embrace Your Unknown

Curating multidisciplinary spaces for self-compassion, self-expression, healing & growth within Black communities 🙌🏾🌿✨
by:@danafletch_
Come thru to FUBU ⬇️

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

We're a week away from #ForUsByUsMentalhealth Black Mental Health Virtual Summit!

Which panel(s) are you most excited for?! Let us know with a quoted RT

JOIN US: https://t.co/teKgDabssc

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

Community, Conversations & Creativity have been my saving graces all 2020. I'm excited to discuss all 3 today with my pal @aundrelarrow over on @ethelsclub ✨🌿

[Black Students @Black_Students]

Thread of #BlackInMentalHealth folks with #Caribbean Connections

@nkasistoll @rukiyaking @theacostyles @shirleydor_ @keisha_a_y @socialnaomi @eyuorg @_morna_o @AtashaJordan

#MentalHealth #Scientist #CaribbeanSTEM #Therapist #Counselor #Psychologist #Psychaitrist #BIMHRollCall

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

@DarkRiseProject Co-sign

how do you carve out ways to take care of you, fam?

intentional hours of screen-free time have been my everything these last two weeks

[Darkness RISING Project @DarkRiseProject]

Trying to do a thing to help people while struggling to help yourself is a struggle is a struggle I didn’t know I’d have but for some reason I’m fully committed to it??

[Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D. @FrankieDHeyward]

Hey @BlackInMH, I would be very appreciative if you could circulate this survey I put together to create a directory of black mental health professionals to share with hundreds of black postdocs 🙏🏾
https://t.co/XD7c5VpDaG

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

I'm so excited to be in community and conversation with these brilliant folks today!

Come thru at 5:30pm EST 🌿✨

[Black In Mental Health @BlackInMH]

At 5.30-7pm EST the amazing @manithegarcia will join @wildlifegirl09 (from @BlackInNPsWeek), Jessica Newton (from @AdventuresTribe); @danafletch_ (from @eyuorg) and Mabari Byrd from (@DearBlackFatherfor) for The “Nature” of Black Mental Health Stories!!!

[BEAM @_beamorg]

Our communities are struggling with grief everywhere& it’s important we extend compassion and understanding. In that spirit we are sharing a tool we built on Worden’s 4 tasks of Mourning, to help us ground the nuances of mourning. Please share. 💜

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

There are days when you don't have it in you to show up to online spaces. And that's okay

I'm taking today to be offline - listening to Transcendent Kingdom audiobook by #YaaGyasi while I make screen-free space to daydream and imagine new worlds

#BlackinMH

[Black In National Parks Week @BlackInNPsWeek]

9/25 - Nicole Jackson (@wildlifegirl09) from @BlackInNPsWeek; Mani Garcia (@manithegarcia) from @BlackInMH #blackinmentalhealthweek; Jessica Newton from Vibe Tribe Adventures (@AdventuresTribe); Dana Fletcher (@danafletch_) from @eyuorg; Mabari Byrd from @DearBlackFather

[Black In Mental Health @BlackInMH]

In this 🧵we share our 5 ENGAGEMENT PRINCIPLES for discussing #AntiBlacknessInMH. Please take the time the read & reflect on each principle carefully before we dive in to engagement. Non-Black people, it is ESPECIALLY important that you read & respect our principles. Thanks!

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[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

@ZoriAmber @DrJulietteM @BlackInMH you're doing AMAZING!

Reading through all the research being done is so encouraging!

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

@FantahunSaron @BlackInMH @manithegarcia @DrJessIsomMDMPH @DrJulietteM Wonderful, how can I get in touch @FantahunSaron?

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

Yay! Thank you for implementing my suggestion 🌿

Currently brainstorming a grassroots mental health education series and am looking for folks who'd be interested in working together to build this out!

cc: @manithegarcia @DrJessIsomMDMPH @DrJulietteM

#BlackinMH #BIMHResearch

[Black In Mental Health @BlackInMH]

Okay #BlackInMH fam, here's our final prompt for #BIMHResearch. You ready? 🤨

Let's talk about community and collaboration! 🌱💚

What are your #BIMHResearch goals? What are you working towards? Let's support and lift each other up in our #BIMHResearch! ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏾

[Broderick Sawyer, PhD @DrBrodSawyer]

1/7 Worry more about the hypothesis than the methodology.

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

Another conversation I'd like to participate in

cc: @BlackInMH

#BIMHResearch #BlackinMH #Blackmentalhealth

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

What does it mean to decolonize global mental health?

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

Resharing this thread and examinings of mental health literacy as a part of #BlackInMentalHealthWeek !

#BlackInMH #BIMHResearch #BiMHPathways

cc @BlackInMH

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

I've been thinking deeply about mental health "literacy" as it relates to the Black community. Mostly what it means to approach and engage with language surrounding mental health. What I've been questioning is whose standard of literacy are we holding ourselves to?

[melanin mvskoke @MelaninMvskoke]

Hey Relatives!! TODAY is National Voter Registration Day.

Please visit https://t.co/LBHccjG3Sz to check if you are registered to vote, if you would like to vote in the 2020 elections on Nov 3rd!

#NativesVote
#MaskOrMail
#Election2020

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

Also for #BIMHResearch I should clarify, I'm not currently in an academic programme! I'm currently researching Master's/PhD programmes in Global Mental Health/Medical Anthropology

I would love to meet & speak with folks in the field with similar interests!

#BlackInMentalHealth

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

My #BIMHResearch interests focus on intergenerational cultural attitudes towards mental health within the Jamaican Diaspora. I'm really interested in how our adopted countries (mainly US/UK/Canada) influence our opinions once we've left the island.

[Black In Mental Health @BlackInMH]

Alright #BlackInMH fam! It's time to start off #BIMHResearch! First off, tell us about your research interests! 🌱💚

This is an opportunity to share what you're currently working on, links to your research articles, videos about your research, etc. Talk nerdy to us! 🤣

[Embrace Your Unknown @eyuorg]

My #BIMHResearch inspiration is Dr Fred Hickling who blazed a trail researching decolonizing global mental health. I'd love to continue his legacy and do research that continues to inform policy development in Jamaica.

Hoping this week I find some mentors as I pursue this path!