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Jul 27 2025
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When the Headlines Hit Home: How Current Events Affect Your Mental Health

By Marquita Bolden

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or exhausted by the news lately, you’re not alone. When we see anti-trans laws passing, DEI programs being eliminated, ICE raids in our communities, or “religious freedom” bills being used to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people, these events hit differently for those of us in marginalized communities. They’re not just political news—they feel personal because they are personal.

Your reactions to current events are completely normal. When you see headlines about laws that could affect your rights, your safety, or your ability to get basic services, your brain treats this as a real threat. Your nervous system doesn’t distinguish between physical danger and social or political threats—it just knows something that matters to you is under attack.

Understanding why current events affect your mental health so deeply can help you be gentler with yourself while developing practical tools to stay engaged with the world around you without burning out.

Nov 26 2024
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A Closer Look at Feminist Therapy: Empowerment Through Understanding

By therapycenteradmin

Feminist therapy offers a uniquely empowering approach to mental health care that goes beyond traditional therapeutic models. Rather than viewing challenges solely through an individual lens, it creates space to understand how our experiences connect to the broader social world. Through collaborative relationships between therapist and client, this approach weaves together personal wisdom with deep insights about how gender, culture, and social structures shape our mental health journeys. By honoring both individual experiences and systemic influences, feminist therapy provides powerful tools for healing from trauma, building authentic self-confidence, and creating meaningful change. While its roots lie in the women’s movement, today’s feminist therapy welcomes people of all genders and backgrounds, offering particular support for those who have faced marginalization or seek to understand their experiences in a wider context.

Jun 04 2020
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As a Black-led organization, TCP stands in solidarity with the Black community during this time of deep racial trauma…

By therapycenteradmin

We are enraged and grief-stricken by the murders of Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Tony McDade. We unapologetically support justice for our Black community members, who are only the latest casualties in a lengthy line of Black folx and Black institutions that have been terrorized by white supremacist violence for hundreds of years. Black folx, we see you and we love you. At TCP, we are proud to reaffirm that we hold anti-racism and Black liberation as core values. We understand that for an organization to strive to disrupt anti-blackness and white supremacy, we need to look inward at our own belief systems, policies and practices, and identities. TCP will continue to challenge ourselves to engage in ongoing racial identity work. We will continue to center Black and Brown voices in cross-racial conversations about race, and create an environment for healing through racial trauma. We hold our white community members accountable in their commitment to creating a more socially just organization through action and cultural humility. We will continue to hold ourselves out as imperfect vessels of racial equity work, with a deep understanding that it starts and ends with us. We encourage you to do racial equity work from where you are, however you can.