

Understanding Addiction and Its Effect on Your Mental Health: A Suicide Toolkit
Jennifer Scott runs SpiritFinder.org to provide information for people with mental illness. It has been their advocacy for opening up...


African American Women and Mental Health :Why We Don’t Seek Help!
According to a recent study, about 20% of African-Americans might acquire mental illness in their life time. In recent years, a large...


How Therapy Made Me Better At My Job
(Original post on Refinery29 here) When I graduated with a master’s degree in cinema and TV studies, I was ready to start my journey as a...


BGS x Tech at SXSW
Black Girls Smile Gives Agency to Black Mental Health Through Tech Information and access to resources create the potential of find...


Mental Wellness Monday
Contributed through The Holistic Lioness. Original post here My name is Veronica Lombo. I am the daughter of two Filipino immigrants. ...


The 3 Things Minority Women Need NOW For Mental Health
Oped in partnership with Refinery 29 for July, Minority Mental Health Awareness Month I remember vividly the day I was diagnosed with...


Here's How A SMILE Can Help Fight Mental Illness
By Kristina Denise (BGS Advisory Board Member) July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness month, the official name is Bebe More...


Why Black Transgender Women Must Not Be Left Out of Our Conversations Regarding Mental Health and Bl
It’s been a little over two weeks since Caitlyn Jenner introduced herself to the world on the cover of Vanity Fair. Clad in a white...


The Passing of Natural Hair Pioneer Titi Branch
Like most Mondays I grabbed my morning herbal tea and sat down at my laptop to begin sifting through emails from the weekend, as my...


Simone Battle
It was Saturday afternoon (September 6th 2014), and I sat in the extremely crowded Atlanta, GA CNN Center having lunch with my mentee...