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Mind Ya Mental Podcast

Oct 28, 2025

From schools to home life, Black children are often denied the innocence and support others receive. Dr. Martin explores how adultification harms mental health and how reparenting can start the healing process.


Oct 21, 2025

What happens when being "Black enough" becomes a performance? Dr. Martin unpacks the mental health cost of masking, code-switching, and respectability politics, and why reclaiming your identity is an act of liberation.


Oct 14, 2025

Many Black families parent from a place of fear, shaped by generations of trauma. Dr. Martin explores how shifting from obedience to respect-based parenting can break harmful cycles and nurture emotional resilience in kids.


Oct 7, 2025

Black youth suicide rates have surged over 50% in recent years. In this episode, Dr. Raquel Martin debunks the myth that Black people don’t die by suicide and explores the impact of racial trauma, stigma, and silence in families and schools.