We All Have A Story
Your Story Does Not Define You The Podcast With Dr. Niesha Davis Massey
Release Date: 08/03/2024
What Are You Doing With Your Time
Your Story Does Not Define You The Podcast With Dr. Niesha Davis Massey
“Time is non-refundable. Use it with intention.' is a powerful reminder of the finite nature of life and the importance of conscious living. Time is the one resource we all have in equal measure each day—24 hours 7 days a week—and once it’s spent, it’s gone. You can’t return it, pause it, save it for later, and there is no do over. Unlike money, energy, or possessions, time cannot be replenished. Every moment that passes is a moment you’ll never get back. In this episode Dr. Niesha enlightens us on how to use time with intention and to live deliberately, on...
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Men Need Love Too
Your Story Does Not Define You The Podcast With Dr. Niesha Davis Massey
June is recognized as Men's Mental Health Awareness Month. In this episode, Dr. Niesha celebrates men for showing up and highlights the importance of embracing emotions and prioritizing mental well-being. The episode brings attention to the unique mental health challenges that men face, aiming to reduce the stigma that often prevents them from seeking help. It encourages open conversations about emotions, stress, depression, anxiety, and suicide, while promoting better access to resources and support systems. Despite facing emotional struggles, men are statistically less likely than women to...
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Healing Through Tears (Featuring Author Lenora McClellan)
Your Story Does Not Define You The Podcast With Dr. Niesha Davis Massey
Crying is an essential part of the healing journey, supported by psychological, emotional, and physiological reasons. It allows for the release of pent-up emotions—grief, anger, sadness, frustration, even relief. When emotions are bottled up, they can lead to emotional numbness or manifest physically through tension, fatigue, or burnout. Crying offers a powerful form of catharsis, helping us fully process what we feel. In this episode, Dr. Niesha is joined by author, playwriter, and lived-experience expert Lenora McClellan, who shares her powerful story of transformation. Once taught to...
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It Hurts To Heal
Your Story Does Not Define You The Podcast With Dr. Niesha Davis Massey
Healing is a deeply personal and ongoing journey that takes time, and this process often requires us to be transparent and honest with our truths. It can be painful to face and address the emotions and feelings we've suppressed or ignored for so long, because—it hurts to heal. In this episode, Dr. Niesha delves into the topic of trauma, explaining what it looks like and why it hurts. She explores the reasons why healing hurts and can be painful and offers helpful tools and strategies for navigating the process. Tune in to this episode for encouragement to confront your difficult truths and...
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Healing Through Relationship (Featuring Desiree Haddad, AMFT)
Your Story Does Not Define You The Podcast With Dr. Niesha Davis Massey
Healing through relationship happens through the process of psychological, emotional, and physical healing that happens within supportive, authentic, and safe human connections. Relationship is something that we need as human beings and is a part of our psychological and biological makeup. In this episode, Dr. Niesha is joined by Desiree Haddad, AMFT who is an associate therapist and advocate for mental health and wellness. Tune in on this powerful conversation as Desiree shares her personal story on how she continues her healing journey from trauma that she experienced at the hand of negative...
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The Thief of Compromise
Your Story Does Not Define You The Podcast With Dr. Niesha Davis Massey
Have you ever felt like you’ve settled for less or compromised your own feelings and values for the sake of someone else? Or maybe you’ve lowered your standards just to make someone else happy or feel valued? Have you ever stayed in a relationship or friendship that, despite causing you more pain than happiness, you continued to endure? Or perhaps you’ve stuck with a job, dealing with turmoil, even though you knew you needed to take a risk and move on? Maybe you’ve given up on a dream or goal because you didn’t feel capable of achieving it. Have you ever compromised your beliefs or...
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You Shall Overcome (Featuring Maxine Henry, Author)
Your Story Does Not Define You The Podcast With Dr. Niesha Davis Massey
Overcoming sexual abuse and the challenges that come with sharing such a personal and painful story is an incredibly courageous act. Maxine Henry's journey of healing and rising above her trauma is truly remarkable. By using her voice to share her testimony, she not only honors her own resilience but also offers strength and encouragement to others who may be facing similar struggles. Her diverse accomplishments—both professionally and spiritually—speak to the power of transformation and growth after trauma. This kind of conversation is important, as it highlights the power of storytelling...
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Not Over But Through
Your Story Does Not Define You The Podcast With Dr. Niesha Davis Massey
We are about to wrap up 2024 and embrace 2025. And during this time of year we are often are thinking about the past year and reflecting on things that has happened throughout the year. Some celebrations, some wins, and also some losses and disappointments, or tragedies that have taken place, and maybe just some life transitions that didn’t feel good. With all of the things that have happened some things may be unresolved and we are not able to leave in 2024 and just forget about it. However, they have a lasting emotional effect on us and we still have to deal with the residue of those...
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Holiday Bliss
Your Story Does Not Define You The Podcast With Dr. Niesha Davis Massey
The Holiday season is here, and although many of our stories during this season are joyous and a happy time for us. There are also some of us whose stories are very different during this season. As this is a happy time for some, it is also a sad and difficult time for others. Many people are struggling with the loss of loved ones not being present for the holidays, loss of relationships, loneliness, financial stress of shopping and giving gifts, lack of social and family connections, isolation, and also many experience Seasonal Affective Disorder during this time. In this episode Dr....
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I Survived It (Featuring Sheryl Brown, LMFT)
Your Story Does Not Define You The Podcast With Dr. Niesha Davis Massey
Have you ever experienced a situation that almost took you out! I mean literally your life could have been gone...but God! You survived it and are surviving it and living to tell your story. Well in this episode Dr. Niesha shares her space with Sheryl Brown, MPA, LMFT, CCDIS who is walking, talking, breathing, living miracle with a story of faith and survival! Sheryl has lived through a serious illness and the divorce of her parents during the process of her illness and while in college. However has survived it all and is living a thriving life. Sheryl is an author, a therapist, a...
info_outlineThis first episode with Dr. Niesha, gives intristic insight on how the things that we have been through and have experienced, are all a part of our unique individual stories. She further takes a dive deeper to expound on how the things that we've thought would take us, out or that we've defined as failures. Are the very thing or things that pushes us to hope, healing, and restoration. Tune in and find out more about how your story is important and liberating. Email Dr. Niesha at [email protected] and follow her on IG @nieshadavislcsw.