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This week, Scott speaks with RaQuel Hopkins, a certified coach with a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling. RaQuel shares her personal and professional journey—from mastering the art of coping to discovering the transformative power of growth. Together, they explore how adults can expand their mental and emotional capacity, why many people feel stuck in “survival mode,” and what it really means to thrive.
Highlighted moments
The identity becomes a trap when it turns more into performance and you're having to prove something.
“there's no such thing as black mental health. Like, I don't know where that has come from. I understand the context behind it, but there's no such thing as men's mental health, black mental health, woman's mental health. It's just mental health and mental health is universal.”
“I have black privilege in this sense to say what the white person can't say to other people or feel like you have the audacity to say.”
“your mental health, isn't something that you protect. It shouldn't become a shield.”
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