Mental Health - Manage Stress - The Strong Black Woman Syndrome - with Lisa Lackey and Daphne Bishop

Lisa Lackey is an esteemed therapy practitioner and dynamic trauma expert who is driven by a passion to support people as they journey towards resolution from the inside out. Lisa holds two Master’s Degrees, one in Education from the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University and one in Counseling from National-Louis University. She is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) Certified Multiple Addictions Therapist (CMAT), and a Level II EMDR therapist with training in Somatic Transformation. A veteran therapist who has specialized in addiction and trauma since 1994, Lisa is a thought leader who has focused on practicing cutting-edge trauma healing strategies, exploring and breaking down society’s ingrained intergenerational trauma as a direct impact of racism, childhood trauma & addiction, and helping all people break the cycles and patterns of abuse and pain. 

Lisa co-founded Insideout Living in 1999 with her husband Steve as they traveled their own insideout proceess of discovering challenging, replacing disruptive patterns with patterns resilience. Insideoutliving was birthed from gratitude, personal process & an insatiable desire to bring more healing into the world. Insideout Living is a clinical practice dedicated to assisting people in making sense of overwhelming, confusing, traumatic experiences that they survived, restructuring the physical impacts of trauma or neglect in their brains, and creating new patterns of wellbeing. In addition to practicing at Insideout, Lisa has served as a thought leader, public speaker, pastor, and leadership development consultant. Using her advanced knowledge of trauma, Lisa has created podcasts, speeches, and community initiatives that tackle society’s deepest wounds, including wounds that Black men and women cope with as a result of longstanding intergenerational trauma, and high functioning successful people that struggle with changing patterns that no longer serve them. Whether it is helping guide someone through addiction, patterns that are no longer useful or connecting with diverse groups and leaders, Lisa promotes trust, safety, and collaboration wherever she goes. Equally talented as both a clinician and as a subject matter expert, Lisa is a compassionate, emotionally intelligent, engaging woman who connects as easily and warmly with a large audience as she does with an individual client. You can find her here.

Daphne Bishop has nearly 20 years of experience advising and defending small to Fortune 500 companies in all types of industries against the gamut of employment-related claims. That gives me a unique advantage in helping companies prevent, investigate and resolve employee and institutional misconduct. Combining my litigation and counseling experience, my practice now focuses on providing internal investigation services as a neutral third party investigator or a strategic advisor. Clients rely on my extensive experience to ensure that employee complaints are promptly and thoroughly investigated, so that should a claim arise out of an investigation they minimize their overall legal risk. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

 

Mindful Minute

HIDDEN

Woman, why do you whisper so?

Why do you walk on tiptoe?

 

Surrendering to the bullshit status quo!

Surrounded by the walking dead everywhere you go?

 

Woman come out of hiding!

Be home be home be home.

 

Conditioned to always do the right thing.

Pining away for that wedding ring.

Feeling like a puppet on a string.

Tension rising, ready to spring!

 

Woman come out of hiding!

Be home be home be home.

 

Banging your head in your own cage!

Suffocating from your blinding rage!

Turning a blind eye to pain unassuaged.

Hoping it will go away with...