Superwoman Complex

Episode 18: I brought my best friend license clinical therapist and social worker Shana Simmons to discuss the "Superman Complex" concept and how African American women normalize everything.....including trauma and try to hold on to the society vision of "you gotta be strong", "you gotta keep the family together", "you'll get through it" while trying to manage every day life. We openly discuss vulnerability between women and how we dim our light so we are less intimidating to others, the act of being brave all the time within your own creativeness, emotional neglect specifically in the black family and the disconnect of the family, getting out the comfortableness of unforgiveness and the "Transparency vs Ethics" among the professional therapist. In that, we discuss the "ride or die" phrase or "struggle love" we discuss the video and article about Pastor John Gray stating, "My wife has endured more pain birthing me than both of our children. She has sacrificed, these last eight years, uncovering the painful areas of my manhood and covering the areas that could have exposed me." Have women taken on roles of raising boys into manhood while sacrificing the development of ourselves for the development of their egos?