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"T" Time with Dr. Tarver — 282 episodes

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The Song that's on Repeat

2

Under Construction

3

Declutter Your Space

4

Kindness Cost You Nothing

5

Finding Your Voice

6

Accountability is an Action Word

7

Justice and Mental Health

8

The Psychology of Sacrifice: Practical Life Lessons

9

The Wisdom of Hope

10

Sacrifice vs. Struggle: Striking Balance in Romantic Relationships

11

Mindful Meditation: Living with Intention in Sacrificial Moments

12

Leaning into Lent: Spirituality and Sacrifice

13

Not Progressing? It May be Time for a Social Media Fast.

14

Compassion vs. Complacency

15

What are You Planting in Preparation for Harvest

16

Does Your Identity Match Your Purpose?

17

When the Guest List Makes Me Sick: Surviving the Holidays

18

Oh, Give Thanks: Navigating Thanksgiving When You're Alone

19

Tis the Season for Avoidance

20

Updating Your Contact List for the Fall Season

21

Trauma Transitions with Tiffany Luke, Licensed Professional Counselor

22

Navigating Uncertainty with Transitions

23

Suicide Awareness and Prevention

24

Navigating Multiple Life Transitions

25

Therapy Transitions: How to Grow and When to Go

26

Feeling Lost During Periods of Transition

27

Transitions Make You Cry Sometimes

28

Let's Talk Trans (Women)

29

The Effects of Incarceration on Men

30

You're a Good Good Father

31

Heal Brother—Even When the Space is Not Given

32

Feeling Trapped in our Patterns

33

We are Our Parents Children: Are We Passing Down Mental Illness

34

Overextending Yourself

35

I Don't Want to Deal With It

36

Finding a Purposeful Career Path

37

Decreasing Self-Employment Stress

38

Navigating Increasing Work Demands

39

Managing Layoffs and Budget Cuts

40

Managing Returning to Work Stress

41

Check that Attitude Sis: Managing Mood Swings

42

Brain Fog has Bested Me

43

Managing the Transitions: the Team Approach to Self-Care

44

Laying the Foundation for Partnership and Parenting

45

Setting the Goalposts in Dating and Debunking Marriage Myths

46

Laying the Foundation for Fostering the Relationships You Deserve

47

What You Practice Affects How You Perform

48

Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That

49

You Can’t Tell Me What to Do

50

The Greatest of these is Love

51

Sleep is a Superpower

52

Hope Heals and Delivers

53

C is for Compassion

54

It's Game Time

55

The Magic of Music

56

Hope for Humanity Series: The Power of Joy

57

Is It Over Yet: Navigating Election Stress

58

Kindness Cost You Nothing

59

The Lady Rules

60

Primed and Groomed: Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence

61

In Honor and in Memory of: The Breast Cancer Awareness Episode

62

I Need Something to Take the Edge Off: Alcohol and Drug Recovery Awareness Month

63

Hair Loss and Mental Wellness: Alopecia Awareness

64

Tortured Souls: Understanding Risk Factors for Suicide

65

Sacrificing Self or Self-Awareness

66

Wow You’ve Really Grown (But Have I, Though?)

67

The Life Lessons of Gratitude, Grace, and Temperance

68

Hope Springs Eternal: the Power of Having Hope

69

Black Boy Joy: African American Males Choosing Happiness

70

Show Up for Me: What Does Support Look Like

71

Preparing for Transitions: Knowing When to Let Go

72

I Didn’t Sign Up for This: Overcoming Hurtful Legacies

73

Beyond the Bars: The Effects of Parental Incarceration on Families

74

The Effects of Rejection

75

Playing Well with Others: Social Wellness

76

Shifting Mindsets: Creating Occupational Wellness

77

I’m Stressed about Money, so of Course I’m Spending Money

78

To Sleep or Not to Sleep: That is the Question

79

The Silent and Not So Silent Judgment: Supporting Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

80

The Silent Cries of the Voiceless: Incarcerated or Formerly Incarcerated Women

81

I Don’t Need Counseling and Other Things We Say When We Need Counseling

82

Supporting our Sisters: Black Maternal Health Week

83

Blessed and Stressed

84

The You Deserve It Episode

85

Fool’s Gold: Putting People on Pedestals

86

Thoughts Matter: Changing the Station

87

Supporting our Sisters

88

Pretty Lies vs. Ugly Truth

89

The Limitations of Love: Doing What I Saw

90

The Beauty of Boundaries

91

Loving or Losing Me: When to Let Go and When to Grow

92

When My Comfort Zone is Uncomfortable: Goal Interfering Behaviors

93

Maximizing Your Motivation

94

Our Goals Don't Align

95

Who’s Holding You Accountable?

96

Running Interference: Reducing Barriers to Reaching Goals

97

Caregiving During the Holidays

98

Guilt and Giving

99

Making Room: Supporting People with Disabilities During the Holidays

100

Happy Holidays: Supporting Trans and Non-Binary Family Members

101

Supporting our Veterans: Homelessness and the Holidays

102

No is a Complete Sentence: Revisiting Boundaries

103

Stay and Obey: Domestic Violence in the Workplace

104

I Wish I Was Enough: The Cycle of Domestic Violence

105

My Broken Heart: Coping After a Cancer-Related Death

106

Broken but Healed

107

I Can’t Receive it: Struggling to Accept Compliments

108

Hold On to Hope: Breaking our Silence about Suicide

109

Hope for Healing the Hurt: Suicide Awareness and Prevention

110

Heartache to Hope

111

Hope for the Hopeless

112

Getting Back to Inspiration

113

Getting Back to Your Purpose

114

Getting Back to Being Non-Judgmental

115

Getting Back to Self After Loss

116

Getting Back to Pastoral Self-Care

117

We Deserve God's Love

118

Our Kids Deserve to be Affirmed and Loved

119

We Deserve Affirming Mental Health Providers

120

We Deserve Safe Spaces

121

It Should Have Been Me: Survivor’s Guilt

122

“Stuck in the Muck: The Comfort of Complacency”

123

Life and Death in the Tongue: The Power of Words

124

To Be Well is to be Free: Challenging the Narrative You Were Given

125

Finding My People: Positive Impacts of Healthy Relationships on Mental Health

126

“Home Alone: When Family Abandons You”

127

I CAN’T DO WHAT I WANT, SO I WON’T DO WHAT I CAN

128

The Guilt and Shame of it All

129

I Don’t Know How to Fix Them

130

The Parent (Child) Trap: The Madness to My Method

131

I’ve Got to Get to Work: I’m too Busy to Be Burned Out

132

Moving Past the Madness to Seeing Each Other in Dating Relationships

133

You’re Headed for Self-Destruction

134

The Affirmations Episode

135

Where the Value Resides: Success in Relationships

136

Caught in the Shrinkage: Ending Unhealthy Relationships

137

Pressure Free: Loving Relationships with Self and Others

138

Working Through Intimidation and Expanding Your Network

139

Change, Consistency, and Clarity: Setting and Reaching Goals

140

Free Your Mind (From Distractions) and the Rest Will Follow

141

Removing Doubt So You Can Shine Out

142

Deflatables—Dealing with Post Holiday Blues

143

’Tis the Season for Your Self-Care

144

“Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen: Men and Wellness”

145

I Can’t Believe You Left: Fears, Frustrations, and Forget Me Nots

146

The Cost of Serving: Veterans and Mental Health

147

ABCs, 123s, and STIs: Reducing Our R.I.S.K.S.

148

Election Anxiety: Please Stop Persuading Me

149

Beneath the Boobs: Fears, Facts, and Follow-Through

150

Just Keep Living: My Story of Hurt, Healing, and Hope

151

Save Yourself Black Man: Overcoming the Toxicity of Past Relationships

152

My Body Feels Like It’s Failing Me: Women and Fertility Challenges

153

“When the Divorce Dust Settles: Co-Parenting, Dating, and Marriage”

154

I Love You More Than I Love Myself: The Cycle of Domestic Violence

155

When No Place Feels Safe: Resources for Victims of and Witnesses to Crimes

156

The Conversation: The Forever Heartbreak of Losing a Child

157

The Conversation: The Children COVID Left Behind

158

The Conversation: No Voice No Choice—Reproductive Rights

159

The Conversation: Resilience & Growth--Life After Lockup

160

The Conversation: Black Women and Dating

161

Men at the Cross: Black Pastors and Mental Health

162

Barbershops: Self-Care and Spaces for Black Men

163

Law Review: Black Men, Crime, and Mental Illness

164

My Transition Story: Becoming Byron Omari

165

We Do Say Gay: Parenting, HIV/AIDS, and Challenging Stigma

166

The Silent Suffering of Our Children: Youth and Mental Health

167

"Why Are You Hiding: Messages We Learned in Ministry."

168

We Can No Longer Afford to Ignore our Mental Health

169

Despite Disappointments in Delegates: Your Voice Matters

170

From Mommy Dearest to Mommy Did This

171

Please Stop Questioning My Masculinity: Father-Son Relationships and Male Identity

172

See Me: Voices of Young Black Women

173

Black Women of Faith: Strength and Struggles

174

The State of the Black Women

175

The Well Woman: Black Women and Mental Health

176

Health Dangers Seen and Unseen: Risk Factors for Black Women

177

Private or Personal: Navigating Workplace Relationships

178

Single Does Not Mean Dissatisfied or Undesirable

179

How Do I Know When to Let Go: Ending Relationships

180

Just Stop: Dating Do’s and Don’ts

181

The Conversations We Don’t Want to Have: Suicide in Families

182

Struggles and Sacrifice: It’s Not Always Glorious Reaching Goals

183

I’ve Never Been Anyone’s First Choice: The Effect of Worth on Goals

184

Aspiration to Action: How to Generate Movement on Goals

185

When Your Stocking was Stuffed with Disappointment

186

Deck the Halls with Debt: Avoiding Financial Stress During the Holidays

187

Tree Trimming and Trauma: Managing Guilt, Sadness, and the Suffering of the World

188

What Do the Lonely Do at Christmas?

189

Heavy Hearts: Forgiveness and the Holidays

190

Soup, Salad, and Sadness: Grief and Loss During the Holidays

191

I’m Bringing Side Eye for Dinner: Holiday Conflict

192

It Doesn’t Feel Like Home for the Holidays: Veterans and Their Families

193

Are You Prepared: Thinking about the Upcoming Holidays

194

I Can’t Go Through That Again: Dating Anxiety

195

But I’m Not Ready Yet: Fear of Leaving Comfort Zones

196

I’m Not Good Enough: Relaxing Social Anxiety

197

Stopping the Spiral: Releasing Yourself from Overthinking

198

Will I Ever Recover: The Journey to Wellness

199

Where is my Safe Place: Strategies to Help Create Protected Spaces

200

Stop Telling Me What to Do with My Body: Creating Healthy Body Boundaries

201

You Need to Cover that Up: Creating Healthy Body Image

202

The Myth of “Ho” Culture: Affirming Healthy Sexual Identity

203

To Snoop or Not to Snoop That is the Question: Trust, Insecurity, and Control

204

Why Do I Keep Doing This: Getting Stuck in Destructive Patterns

205

Count it All Joy: Can I Create Happiness?

206

Who is Hugging the Hugger: The Downside of Being the “One”

207

Who or What are You Hoarding: Difficulty Letting Things and People Go

208

Falling in and Out of Control of Myself: Roles in Families

209

Still Proving We Belong: Constant Evaluations of Black Women

210

Chaos and Coffee: Reducing Stress in BIPOC

211

Affirm Your Children: LGBTQ Youth

212

Conversations about “C”: Everybody Hates Cancer

213

“That’s Gay” and Other Hateful Things You’ve Outgrown

214

I Am Not Your Superhuman: Athletes and Mental Health

215

Self-Disclosures: Dating and Mental Health

216

You Can Have Faith and a Therapist Too: Spirituality and Mental Health

217

What Do You Need to Know: Navigating Mental Health and the Workplace

218

The Ties that Bind: Mental Health in Families Part II

219

The Ties that Bind: Mental Health in Families Part I

220

Concerned Not Consumed: Setting Boundaries with Over-Involvement

221

You Brought This on Yourself: Character Assassination

222

I Don’t Want To: Pitfalls of Procrastination

223

I Didn’t Think About It: Reducing Impulsive Behaviors

224

Stuff It: Women and Food as Coping

225

Why Do You Keep Coming for Me Sis: Women Attacking Women

226

There is No Peace for Her, Not Even in Her Dreams: Women and Self-Care

227

Well What Did You Expect: Questioning and Dismissing the Experiences of Women

228

Holes in My Soul: The Effects of Trauma on Relationship Patterns

229

“Is Your Cup Turned Over?”: Overcoming Self-Sabotage

230

Losing Myself--Addicted to Love

231

Am I My Own Friend: The Effects of Destructive Self-Talk

232

One of These Things is Not Like the Others: Crushing Comparison Behaviors

233

My Tree Isn't Bearing Fruit: Barriers to Success

234

What Do We Tell Our Children: What Happens When We Don’t Win?

235

#GOALS

236

“You Are Worthless”: Growing Up in Abusive Environments

237

Dealing with Distress

238

Dealing with Disappointments and Delays During COVID19

239

Surviving Social Isolation During COVID19

240

Two Minutes of Terrific

241

Constructive Coping in Times of COVID-19

242

Grappling with Grief During COVID-19

243

Accepting Anxiety During COVID-19

244

Recognizing Relationship Patterns

245

Detecting Depression

246

Guide to Greatness

247

Suffering vs. Sacrifice

248

Denying vs. Lying

249

Inside the Glass

250

You Are Not Forgotten

251

Hurting With Our Words

252

You Always Matter: Shattering Stigma About Suicide

253

Socialization and Sexualized Behaviors

254

“What Exactly Am I Trying to Say?"

255

What Are You Afraid Of?

256

The Ways We Express Our Pain

257

The Problem with Pre-Existing Conditions

258

The Power of Breath

259

You Deserve

260

I See You

261

Fathers, You Are Not Forgotten

262

You Are Built For This

263

Why Do We Hold Grudges?

264

Let’s Talk About Boundaries

265

“Do You Want to Be Healed?”

266

“What Not to Say”

267

Too Much Sauce

268

Hitting That Second Wall

269

You Are Already Built for This

270

“You Don't Have Any Real Problems”—Youth and Suicide

271

“You Cannot Be a Leader if You Show Weakness”—Men and Suicide

272

“Service Above Self”—Active Duty, Veterans, and Suicide

273

“I’ll Rest When I’m Dead”-Women and Suicide

274

The Invisible Wounds of Mental Health

275

Living My Truth

276

Suddenly the World Stopped

277

“The Comeback: A Return to Empathy”

278

You Should Not Have to Fight to Be Seen

279

Giving You a Piece of Mind vs. Peace of Mind

280

Growing Up Fearful

281

It is True That it Was Said, But What Was Said is Not Necessarily True

282

Empty Spaces