December 20, 2023 • 33 mins
In this episode, special guest Coach Erika Perry, shares about mental health pressures in young athletes and how important it is to be nurtured by someone who understands the balance of playing sports and mental wellness.
Coach Erika Perry is the Founder and Executive Director of Youth Talk United, a nonprofit organization designed to educate, empower, and engage youth through community service, leadership, and positive decision-making. She has over 10 years of experience implementing and overseeing high-risk youth and young adult programs. In addition to being a trained mental health specialist.
Coach Erika Perry is the Founder and Executive Director of Youth Talk United, a nonprofit organization designed to educate, empower, and engage youth through community service, leadership, and positive decision-making. She has over 10 years of experience implementing and overseeing high-risk youth and young adult programs. In addition to being a trained mental health specialist.
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Hello and welcome to all beautiful soulsout there. You're listening to the Restore
My Soul Podcast with Princess Millin's,your favorite grief coach and emotional wellness specialist.
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welcome in everybody to another episode ofRestoring My Soul Podcast. I'm so excited
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empower you in your own emotional wellnessjourney. So I am your host,
your favorite grief and emotional wellness specialist, Princess Millon's and I just believe that
we all have a story, right, We have a story, and we
have a mindset. We can createthat mindset that we can grow past that
pain of our past and push throughto our God given purpose. So I
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am so excited about our special gueststoday, y'all. I have coach Erica
Perry in the building today and sheis so near and dear to my heart.
She is the founder and executive directorof Youth Talk United, which is
a nonprofit organization designed to educate,empower and engage youth in our community through
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service leadership, positive decision making.She specializes in over ten years experience and
implementing and overseeing high risk youth andyoung adult programs. She does a whole
lot of work in the college atmosphereand in addition to be a trained mental
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health specialist and professional. So Iwant to welcome to the show today,
Coach Erica Perry. Thank you somuch for being here. Go thank you.
This is awesome. Fel So,you know, delighted and excited.
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This is great. Yes, itis great, and I know we're going
to have such a great conversation today. I'm so excited because I know that
you have served in the community,you have done a lot of work,
and I know that you're going toprovide a lot of insight into the importance
of mental health, especially when itcomes to athletes and just us as individuals,
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right, and how we can kindof push through the things that we
are going through in life. Right. So I know that you know,
I know you as coach pe CoachPerry and all of that. That is
who the world knows you ask,right, But I want to stop by
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asking what where did that name comefrom? Coach Perry. While yeah,
I always love this question because it'sso dear. It outlines that she and
you know, when everything was comingtogether of we have to go through something
you know, to enlighten us.And coach Perry started because I was that
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kid that eighth grade year was walkeddown the aisle my senior year by her
coach. I was that kid twelfthgrade year in collegiate senior night, I
was walked down by my coach.Had the privilege of playing sports from elementary
all the way to collegiate. AndI always tell people nothing to shine on
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my mom. We've had the conversationabout this. But my mom attended one
of my basketball games and that wasgoing into the third quarter, and it
was so funny because I was soexcited that I always remember I had nineteen
seven and six of my stets.I remember that because I got to cut
out and frame and everything, andI scoled and I did so well because
I was so excited that she finallytold me she was coming. That I
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played at swimming with well. Soby the time she came home and my
brother he came over to the benchand Wishman said, Mom said, why
are you sitting on the bench.She I was at work, and I'm
like, well, I gave allI could in the beginning, and now
as you played sports, you haveto say it's time for someone else to
play. So that goes into thepoint that I was at Anna Rolle student.
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I was that kid that did somany great things in school, but
I was straggling at home mentally,socially, and physically. No one was
there to support me or push me. It was just Okay, you're making
good grades, We're gonna put youon you keep going. I didn't have
that support system, but thank godhe put some coaches in my life.
These were some coaches that found outthat knows what was going on and said,
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hey, you're not going to stopon yourself. I mean that coach
what I met in seventh grade,the Lord Behold Circle was actually my first
love. He seen me with soccerride everybody like really, He seen me
playing circles, like can you dothis with a basketball? I started playing.
He said, well, I wantyou to come to practice. Soon
as he start opening up his life, I'm like, oh, that's not
gonna work. I already knew whatmy parents that they may not do that.
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So as all coaches, he tookme home and said, hey,
you know your dollar is quite good. And my mom was like, oh
okay. But at that point,I say a single parent home. But
even though my stepdaddy was there,he was never physical. He always said
he was sick, so he neverreally worked. And again, nothing to
shame them, because it was somethingthat I had to get over, that
troumb of how they did me andmy siblings. So he was always there,
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but it was still a single parenthome because I can remember my mom
working two or three jobs. Somy mom it was already like, okay,
you can come, but I don'tknow how she gonna play that sport.
So right then and there, mycoach picked up on it and said,
hey, just let us start comingat the school and now I bring
a home. So he would continueto do that until his wife got into
it too and sing and notice thewife started saying, hey, let her
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come around and eat dinner with us. Sometime from there they started building that
reporting relationship where then my coach said, hey, you know where we going
after eather night? You on babysitJunior, which is there so which is
just like a little brother. Now, So those are things that relationships I
built. And then it went allinto my high school where I give my
coaches flyers. Now, my eighthgrade coach told my high school coach,
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Look, I'm handing over my daughterto you, and I don't want to
get the most on that point.He said, I'm handing her. Yeah,
okay, okay. So I hadanother male figure in my life and
also their dear wife that said wesee something in you. And I've been
like that and and tough on mycoaching as I coach on my girls because
I can remember that I got tobe in school. Both of the coaches
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got together and said, hey,bench on for the first half of the
game. I'm like what they waslike Noventure and they agreed. And as
a private bencher watching my team lose, the coach told me why I'm looking
up at the other coach across fromus and he said that we let you
sell them. Now you're gonna sellit in life cause you don't have the
best household. Wow, we expectnothing but greatness for you. And when
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I tell you was all A's andSuma collided with everything because I knew it
was someone that loved me. Sowhy coach Parry? Because I had coaches
that embedded in me. So whatdid I do? I took that same
thing, went to school first insocial work and psychology to be able to
give you Nope. But also Istarted coaching because I wanted that. So
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when people call me coach, that'slike a love language. You mean,
you know, everybody else love likecoaches. Love that draws onto my heart.
When I hear a little girl saythank you, coach, and I
made to say no, thank youbecause I am you. You are her.
I've been through that. It's adifferent story and people don't understand.
You don't know my life story oror trauma, but you will understand that
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coach is something that God gave me. So he made me go through something
to be able to go to andtell other people heah call me coach.
Yes, Eric birthny A'm a coach. That's what pulling me to do the
things that I do because somebody hadto care for me. Somebody had to
push and pull on me, andthat was my coaches. And I love
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it. I'm thankful because every eighthgrade year, every senior year, when
I coach from all the way fromelementary, high school, collegiate, I
walk somebody down the aisle. Iwould never be able to do that for
a senior year. I didn't gothrough it. I mean I would have
girls the eighth grade, and Iwas crying and hollering and throwing stuff.
And I will allow them to throwstuff and then look at them and say,
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hey, I'm you. I've beenthere. But what we're gonna do
right now is you gonna hold myhands. You're gonna stop crying so I
can't cry, and we're both gonnawalk down this aisle. So why my
coach is so near and near tome because it was coaches that was a
blessing me. That is so powerful. And you know, I'm glad you
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shared that story because that's something Inever knew. And also because in society
the world now, where the wordcoach is so loosely used, right,
Uh, your story behind that wordis just so powerful. Uh, to
know that the same treatment that youwere you received when you were uh you
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know, a middle school or ahigh schooler, that you were able to
pour, take that and poort intoothers. Right. And so we we
normally don't see a lot of whatis inside of us. Other people sometimes
are able to see more of whatis inside of us than us, right.
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And so, and I'll see thatwith your coaches, they were able
to see the greatness in you.They were able to see beyond you know,
your your home life. They theywere able to see beyond all of
that, even beyond the good grades. So what you can do on the
court and so well, I wantto you to speak on how important because
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we know that mental health, emotionalwellness, all of that it starts from
day one. Yes, it's startsfrom birth right and a lot of us
grow up and we get to certainstages where if we feel like we have
not been supported, or we feelthat we have gone through a lot.
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In some of our teenagers, ouryoung adults, they have gone through a
lot. You know what I'm saying. But how how important is us as
parents, us as teachers, becauseyou know I talked twenty years in classroom,
Yes, us as coaches, usas a community to build emotional and
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mental health and wellness in our children. How important is that? Oh man?
That is so important at least intoalso related to my nonprofit you talk
and also what I do generally asto us speak or mental wellness specialist is
making mental health a norm that meanstalking about it, speaking about it.
We shy away because the culture havetold us that you know, when you
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speak about mental health that something iswrong. But my job is you have
to educate yourself to be able toeducate others. And mental health is just
the label. Mental health is yoursocial emotion or psychological aspect. It's a
label that's given. It does notmean that you have a disorder, something
wrong with you. Everybody wants tohave mental in health. But because how
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we've been raised and talk, thefirst thing we hear, oh it's a
diagnose. But however, we haveto educate ourselves on what mental health is.
So with that saying, it's soimportant to sit down your child.
As coaches, to sit down witha kid and just say, how's it
going, how are you doing?Can I help you with something? But
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between that conversation to recognize some ofthose cues and signs of what they're going
through. I've had so many youththat grew up in the sports that and
I would notice as they got olderwhether or not someone unfortunate was physically touching
in or whether there no communication.Because I set the tone at the beginning
as a parent, as I callmyself, I say babies, and also
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as a coach, you gotta getthat communication with them for them to be
okay to talk to you. Becausewe as adults, we are quick to
say, you know what, arethey just the key? It's okay.
They're going through so much pressure.Is not like it used to be.
Social media is right at your hand. I tell people social media is a
handful of suicide. Yes it is, and it's sad to say that.
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But because people look at social mediaall day long, it's so important to
pull your child phone when I tellparents all the time, you pay for
that phone, when you are theowner, off the phone. Check that
phone, See what's going on,Check those text messages, see who they're
taxing. Check and see what socialmedia platforms they're on, what they're researching,
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what they're googling. A lot ofstuff that are happening to our children
is right up under the home becausethey're putting it out there on that platform
or they're got it in their phone. So it's so important. And the
thing about just like they say insports, a child won't care. Untiday
know you care. That's what parentsdo too. That that's it, and
they know you care, and you'reokay with them talking to you, they're
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not gonna come to you. Butonce you open up. But the thing
about that though, miss for instanceis we gotta let go our trauma as
an adult so we can be ableto receive when our kids are going through
stuff. Wow. So that's ahuge part too that I work with parents
saying, Okay, I understand yourparents didn't communicate with you. I understand
mom use sexual abuse too, buthow can we work with that? So
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when your daughter come to you andsay your boyfriend is doing it, you
won't get a set and say nobecause you're still bag on your trauma and
nobody believe you. We have tolet go so we can be able to
accept and understand all kids. AndI like to say, look at mental
health as a spectrum. That's kidsand adults. On that spectrum, you
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have good mental health, mental wellness, and then you have mental health where
people say bad. Guess what thatspectrum GOI go up and down. It
may be a death, family,you lean, it may be bad grades.
For kids, it leaves, itmay be a divorce. And for
their relationships, there are so relationships. They want to have their metric pajamas
just like adults now. So it'sso important that we talk to them but
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understand they're gonna have a spectrum.For my athletes, and sports. You
go from one school to a nextschool, and now you're not the start
player or another player steps in frontof you, You're gonna have some anxiety,
You're gonna have some depression. Soit's so important that we set the
tone in the beginning with talking andhaving community cation with our kids. And
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communication means don't be judgmental, comewith them, open minded and say,
Okay, I'm going to listen towhat you say. It may not be
what I want to hear, butat least I know you can't come to
me and I can correct you theright way. That is, Yeah,
so important for that. Yeah,And I think see, as you've said,
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a lot of the problem of ourcommunication, especially with each other,
our children or anything like that,is because that we have not been taught
in the community. We we we'vebeen taught to go through what you're gonna
go through, and we don't talkabout it. When somebody passed away,
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we kind of just went on withlife. We didn't talk about our feelings,
nor did we go to a therapist. God forbid, you say you
go to a therapist? You reallycrazy enough? Right now? Something wrong?
We have this uh cycle, Wehave this cycle that we're steadily chipping
away from because I think more ofus are being more vocally and talking about
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the things that we've gone through,trying to help other people. But it
can be difficult sometimes to even spotit, you know, to even recognize
or identify that your child or someonein your vicinity and your care is struggling.
So for me, nobody knew Iwas struggling when I was a teenager
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and all of that because I wasa good student, you know what I'm
saying. May A's didn't fight anyof that, you know what I'm saying,
but emotionally, mentally just breaking downevery day and just did not know
why, did not have the languageright, didn't feel like I had nobody
to talk to about it as well. Right, And then we get into
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these adults, We get to bethe adults that never dealt with it,
and then we bring it to ourown children. But I told myself,
listen, it starts with me.It's not with me. But the thing
is, what are some because itcan be difficult because all grief and loss
and things that go on with usmentally and emotional are not always readily seen.
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Yes, because just like you andI, we made those good grades.
People didn't really know you know,what was going on, you know
what I'm saying, But what aresome of the ways that we can look
out for that a young person couldexhibit that they're struggling even when it doesn't
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seem like it. I would definitelysay, you want to look at things
of change in their sleep, pattering, change in what they're eating. A
sleep pattern will tell you a lot. As myself, I would leave practice,
go home and go right in thebad. I didn't want to be
bored. I didn't want to talkto anyone because I was full of just
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rough emotions, tired and just youknow, it was at the point I
was like why am I me evenhere? So I had the suicide of
thoughts and everything too. So lookat those sleep patterns. Yes, I
kids nowadays, I hear a lotof pants. All they do is sit
in their room. You need tostart going there, checking in their room.
What it is in their room,that the reason why they want to
just stay in that room. Thatmeans you're gonna have to do a lot
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more of being in a room withthem to occupy that time with them.
Also checking their friends who they havearound them as friends looking at that,
that could equal a lot. Havetheir friends been some friends that was eight
on a roll. Now you justsee a whole switching to friends. How
they look, how they walk,how they dress, and how they talk.
We need to look into that.Also, you want to take a
look into the things and places theywant to go. They may stay off
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saying, you know, Mom,I don't want to go here, Dad,
I don't want to go here.I want to go such and such.
Those are the times we had acommunication. Why you no longer like
those friends? Why you no longerlike that place? What has changed?
That idea a big thing. AndI know I'm so big on sports,
but finding the right coach. Putthem in activities. Parents, We know
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you guys work too. You can'talways be around. But you put them
in activities, activities that they like. It's gonna be some they don't like,
but in those activities with the rightcoaches, the coaches are gonna pick
up two on some of the thingsthat they're going through. Look at that
for my younger babies. A lotof times you have the wristbands. This
is something big. When I wasactually in the office as a psychology I
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had a young kid that always worethe robo bands. I will tell this
mom, check the rober bands.The rober bands was his farm anxiety.
But he will pull it so hardthat everything up under his hands was skilled.
He had pulled it out. Soa lot of times you see kids
with all those rober bands and everything. You want to check on those different
things, check on their different clothing. Clothing can sometimes put in distress too.
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Darker clothes you give a darker Philly, You give a darker outlook on
life. You want to look intothose and ask them questions. Don't just
go and shop and give those things. Ask them them questions. Why are
they feeling that way? Ask themabout their teachers. If it's something going
on at school, you open up, so how is your teacher or the
teacher all right? But they mayjump into it's just the people in the
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classroom. They always work my nerves. Now you got a spot. What
you mean they work in nerves?How do they work on nerves? Now
it's time to ask the teacher.I'm just doing a check up because I
see once I start asking about school, they kind of got a look up.
So what are some things in schoolthat you can check in on?
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Ask the teacher. It's about mostimportant princesses being involved. You gotta want
to take that time to go overand beyond to be involved in your child
life and check on there because ofwhat's going on now someone's I know,
we hear, I just don't havea time. I'm gonna tell you make
the time ask those questions. Ifyou have multiple kids, I always used
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to suggest you need once a weekwhere you have time with each kid.
You gotta make that time. Comeon, is Jojo time right here?
Is Mike my time? Tuesday?It's her time Friday? Getting their individual
time at that individual time. You'rewatching everything. You're making sure you understand.
Some of y'all got young males,y'all understand, watch the phone,
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watch other stuff up under their bedthat they may be using. See.
We're just gonna keep it real becausethose are signs when they start thinking about
you're seeing different stuff in their rooms. The sexual science is that good?
Sexual science are bad? Sexual science? Is this something going on? Do
you get too fast? And nowI need to get a holt on him
because I don't need him out heremessed with nobody even inside of the house.
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Exactly, those conversations that we don'twant to talk about, but we
gotta be generated with it. Wecan be able to say, son,
if you're doing this, we needto make sure you're relation to yourself the
right way. And we're not justsaying this the Black film. You're gonna
be a boy, he gonna bea boy? No, sir, no
maynor yes about this, son,I see this is now going on,
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but we want to make sure you'redoing it right. And we also want
to make sure to understand when isthe time to do it. If you
got a hearth, I need youto, you know, come come go
talk to daddy exactly. It's communication. We don't think that it's big,
but it's the smallest things that thekid gonna come make and say, dang,
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I do probably need to talk today at a month because they took
the time out to talk to me. But it's not gonna be all the
time. But if you start communicatingwith them, when you start seeing those
science, it's gonna be more easierbecause, yes, as a team,
they're gonna pull away from you becausethey're gonna get to that time. But
because y'all had a communication, they'realways gonna be a time where they're gonna
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slip up and say, you knowwhat I got into? Ama? Who
your friend over ten years? Mmm, let me know more about it now
that it's your cue again looking atphone, maybe it's your clue to call
that parent house things going. It'sthe communication, I will say, it's
the biggest thing that you said earlyon with your child. You watch different
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things, like I said, fromthe social media, they look at television
shows they look at and also usingthose television shows Love and hip hop Atlanta
is a big thing, you know, to eat on those shows. As
I grow older, I go differentways from different stuff. Especially it utilize
us as specially as black women ina different way. You know. So
you can still look at that andsay, hey, you think about her
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how you think she should herself,and then you contribute that to them in
a communication. Now you get afeeling because it's gonna be some kids to
be like, oh, I likehow she looks, I know what she's
like. Now you just start thinkingabout those things. Yeah, community communication.
Communication is so key and and youknow, not just when they become
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high schoolers or teenagers. The conversationstarts is from birth. Again, even
when they can't even talk. Right, even when they can't talk, we
talking to them. They're learning howto communicate from us. So we are
poor communicators. They're gonna learn tobe poor communicators as well. But as
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long as we embrace them and leadthem into those conversations that are going to
be healthy for them, you knowthey're gonna have a thriving life. You
know, it takes a community,it takes a we we always say it
takes a village to raise a child, and it certainly does. And everybody
who we have uh that the childis in contact with and in their care
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for any reason, we have,I think, a responsibility to do just
that. So you know, thistime has gone also so quickly. But
our I wanted to ask you aquick question as we kind of wrap this
up. I know that you talka lot about the peer the pressure,
right, not necessarily always the peerpressure. For like, even when students
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do sports or any activity, anyextracurricular activity, because they dance and do
everything else too, but sometimes thereis stress and undue pressure they even parents,
we place on our children even whenthey don't want to do the sport,
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even when they don't want to goto dance practice even when they don't
want to go to this, that, and the other. They don't want
to learn how to sew. Theydon't want to learn how to so but
we push them into these places.Right, So, can you give some
quick encouragement to the parent, tothe students, or whoever is listening,
how that we can make sure thatwe are not pressuring or putting undue pressure
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on our children like that Y's parents. Stop it, stop stop. Allow
your kid to be a kid.If they would like to do it,
they will grow into you. Keepthem in that environment where they possibly can
see it. But if it's somethingthey don't want to do, don't push
them to do something that they don'twant to do, because now you are
already put in their head that theyhave to do things even though they don't
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want to. I know it seemssmall, but mentally and psychology, now
you got them in there. Idon't want to do this. I didn't
want to do that, but heforced me to do it. He pushed
me, said I should do it. When you start that early, it
seats in their heads. So giveingthem that time to communicate. Okay,
you don't want to do it,Why you don't want to do it,
and I know it's a sports place. Used to hear you're gonna do something,
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You're gonna play something. Put themin something they like so they can
flourish. See at least allow themto flourish and something they like. It
may not be fullbole. They maywant to do art. It may be
they may want to do piano ballet. Just let them pick or something that
they're gonna do. I do agreewith parents. They need to be active,
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they mind, don't need to beidle at home or just in front
of some technology. Allow them todo that. But after they try out
and they don't want to do it, don't force them to do it.
That little small force. You've alreadybroken a relationship in some form of fashion
with your child, where now they'renot gonna tell you anything they want to
do because if they don't like it, they're gonna be scared that you're gonna
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make them do it. So insteadof saying, ooh, I like that,
they're gonna be like, I likeit, but I ain't gonna say
because she's gonna make me do it, or he's gonna make me do it.
So allow them to make their choice. Unfortunately, it's not your life,
it's their life. So allow themto make the choice with you.
And that means as a parent,just getting information. They need to let
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you know why though, because whymaybe because I actually had a young girl
that didn't want to do ballet Mooreand her parents was forcing her. But
when I got through talking with them, that was because she was getting sexual
abused by the coaches. Oh wow, So she didn't want to be around
the coaches. And then when shewasn't when getting sexual abused because it was
predominantly white area j area shout outsay you know and nothing that and always
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on podcasts nothing to her felm ofthat nature. She was getting racial swords.
So she was going through two thingsat one time on there and mom
was like, we paid all thismoney, you're gonna do this, you
gonna do this. But I justsat down and said, why you don't
want to do it? You're greeted, you amazing at it, and she
just broke down. So sometimes thatwhy not has a reason why? Absolutely
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absolutely, that would be the biggestthing I would say, just communicate with
them on why not. Yeah,And that is a great way to end
this episode. Thank you so much, Coach Pe Coach Perry or being here
in this episode, I know thatyou have blessed so many people and so
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many parents right who have those children, whether they're in sports or not.
The ones of us who are mothers. We really needed to hear this because
we've got to make sure that thecommunication is there for our children so that
they cannot only survive teenage years,but they can thrive in life and they
can be productive members of society.Right, So before we get out of
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yes, number one coach parent onall social media platforms on Facebook usually Erica
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But guess what I want the peopleknow that my personal issue, guy
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will see that too, because CoachParry is all about doing and not just
talking everybody say they want to makea change, but I'm here to say,
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want to see. Absolutely, Sothank you again Coach Pete for being here
today and this I don't know thismight have worn a part too on this
one, so we'll we'll talk lateron that talk about Yes, all right,
well, we'll see you next time. I want to thank you all
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Hello and welcome to all beautiful soulsout there. You're listening to the Restore
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we all have a story, right, We have a story, and we
have a mindset. We can createthat mindset that we can grow past that
pain of our past and push throughto our God given purpose. So I
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am so excited about our special gueststoday, y'all. I have coach Erica
Perry in the building today and sheis so near and dear to my heart.
She is the founder and executive directorof Youth Talk United, which is
a nonprofit organization designed to educate,empower and engage youth in our community through
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service leadership, positive decision making.She specializes in over ten years experience and
implementing and overseeing high risk youth andyoung adult programs. She does a whole
lot of work in the college atmosphereand in addition to be a trained mental
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health specialist and professional. So Iwant to welcome to the show today,
Coach Erica Perry. Thank you somuch for being here. Go thank you.
This is awesome. Fel So,you know, delighted and excited.
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This is great. Yes, itis great, and I know we're going
to have such a great conversation today. I'm so excited because I know that
you have served in the community,you have done a lot of work,
and I know that you're going toprovide a lot of insight into the importance
of mental health, especially when itcomes to athletes and just us as individuals,
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right, and how we can kindof push through the things that we
are going through in life. Right. So I know that you know,
I know you as coach pe CoachPerry and all of that. That is
who the world knows you ask,right, But I want to stop by
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asking what where did that name comefrom? Coach Perry. While yeah,
I always love this question because it'sso dear. It outlines that she and
you know, when everything was comingtogether of we have to go through something
you know, to enlighten us.And coach Perry started because I was that
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kid that eighth grade year was walkeddown the aisle my senior year by her
coach. I was that kid twelfthgrade year in collegiate senior night, I
was walked down by my coach.Had the privilege of playing sports from elementary
all the way to collegiate. AndI always tell people nothing to shine on
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my mom. We've had the conversationabout this. But my mom attended one
of my basketball games and that wasgoing into the third quarter, and it
was so funny because I was soexcited that I always remember I had nineteen
seven and six of my stets.I remember that because I got to cut
out and frame and everything, andI scoled and I did so well because
I was so excited that she finallytold me she was coming. That I
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played at swimming with well. Soby the time she came home and my
brother he came over to the benchand Wishman said, Mom said, why
are you sitting on the bench.She I was at work, and I'm
like, well, I gave allI could in the beginning, and now
as you played sports, you haveto say it's time for someone else to
play. So that goes into thepoint that I was at Anna Rolle student.
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I was that kid that did somany great things in school, but
I was straggling at home mentally,socially, and physically. No one was
there to support me or push me. It was just Okay, you're making
good grades, We're gonna put youon you keep going. I didn't have
that support system, but thank godhe put some coaches in my life.
These were some coaches that found outthat knows what was going on and said,
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hey, you're not going to stopon yourself. I mean that coach
what I met in seventh grade,the Lord Behold Circle was actually my first
love. He seen me with soccerride everybody like really, He seen me
playing circles, like can you dothis with a basketball? I started playing.
He said, well, I wantyou to come to practice. Soon
as he start opening up his life, I'm like, oh, that's not
gonna work. I already knew whatmy parents that they may not do that.
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So as all coaches, he tookme home and said, hey,
you know your dollar is quite good. And my mom was like, oh
okay. But at that point,I say a single parent home. But
even though my stepdaddy was there,he was never physical. He always said
he was sick, so he neverreally worked. And again, nothing to
shame them, because it was somethingthat I had to get over, that
troumb of how they did me andmy siblings. So he was always there,
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but it was still a single parenthome because I can remember my mom
working two or three jobs. Somy mom it was already like, okay,
you can come, but I don'tknow how she gonna play that sport.
So right then and there, mycoach picked up on it and said,
hey, just let us start comingat the school and now I bring
a home. So he would continueto do that until his wife got into
it too and sing and notice thewife started saying, hey, let her
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come around and eat dinner with us. Sometime from there they started building that
reporting relationship where then my coach said, hey, you know where we going
after eather night? You on babysitJunior, which is there so which is
just like a little brother. Now, So those are things that relationships I
built. And then it went allinto my high school where I give my
coaches flyers. Now, my eighthgrade coach told my high school coach,
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Look, I'm handing over my daughterto you, and I don't want to
get the most on that point.He said, I'm handing her. Yeah,
okay, okay. So I hadanother male figure in my life and
also their dear wife that said wesee something in you. And I've been
like that and and tough on mycoaching as I coach on my girls because
I can remember that I got tobe in school. Both of the coaches
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got together and said, hey,bench on for the first half of the
game. I'm like what they waslike Noventure and they agreed. And as
a private bencher watching my team lose, the coach told me why I'm looking
up at the other coach across fromus and he said that we let you
sell them. Now you're gonna sellit in life cause you don't have the
best household. Wow, we expectnothing but greatness for you. And when
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I tell you was all A's andSuma collided with everything because I knew it
was someone that loved me. Sowhy coach Parry? Because I had coaches
that embedded in me. So whatdid I do? I took that same
thing, went to school first insocial work and psychology to be able to
give you Nope. But also Istarted coaching because I wanted that. So
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when people call me coach, that'slike a love language. You mean,
you know, everybody else love likecoaches. Love that draws onto my heart.
When I hear a little girl saythank you, coach, and I
made to say no, thank youbecause I am you. You are her.
I've been through that. It's adifferent story and people don't understand.
You don't know my life story oror trauma, but you will understand that
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coach is something that God gave me. So he made me go through something
to be able to go to andtell other people heah call me coach.
Yes, Eric birthny A'm a coach. That's what pulling me to do the
things that I do because somebody hadto care for me. Somebody had to
push and pull on me, andthat was my coaches. And I love
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it. I'm thankful because every eighthgrade year, every senior year, when
I coach from all the way fromelementary, high school, collegiate, I
walk somebody down the aisle. Iwould never be able to do that for
a senior year. I didn't gothrough it. I mean I would have
girls the eighth grade, and Iwas crying and hollering and throwing stuff.
And I will allow them to throwstuff and then look at them and say,
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hey, I'm you. I've beenthere. But what we're gonna do
right now is you gonna hold myhands. You're gonna stop crying so I
can't cry, and we're both gonnawalk down this aisle. So why my
coach is so near and near tome because it was coaches that was a
blessing me. That is so powerful. And you know, I'm glad you
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shared that story because that's something Inever knew. And also because in society
the world now, where the wordcoach is so loosely used, right,
Uh, your story behind that wordis just so powerful. Uh, to
know that the same treatment that youwere you received when you were uh you
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know, a middle school or ahigh schooler, that you were able to
pour, take that and poort intoothers. Right. And so we we
normally don't see a lot of whatis inside of us. Other people sometimes
are able to see more of whatis inside of us than us, right.
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And so, and I'll see thatwith your coaches, they were able
to see the greatness in you.They were able to see beyond you know,
your your home life. They theywere able to see beyond all of
that, even beyond the good grades. So what you can do on the
court and so well, I wantto you to speak on how important because
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we know that mental health, emotionalwellness, all of that it starts from
day one. Yes, it's startsfrom birth right and a lot of us
grow up and we get to certainstages where if we feel like we have
not been supported, or we feelthat we have gone through a lot.
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In some of our teenagers, ouryoung adults, they have gone through a
lot. You know what I'm saying. But how how important is us as
parents, us as teachers, becauseyou know I talked twenty years in classroom,
Yes, us as coaches, usas a community to build emotional and
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mental health and wellness in our children. How important is that? Oh man?
That is so important at least intoalso related to my nonprofit you talk
and also what I do generally asto us speak or mental wellness specialist is
making mental health a norm that meanstalking about it, speaking about it.
We shy away because the culture havetold us that you know, when you
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speak about mental health that something iswrong. But my job is you have
to educate yourself to be able toeducate others. And mental health is just
the label. Mental health is yoursocial emotion or psychological aspect. It's a
label that's given. It does notmean that you have a disorder, something
wrong with you. Everybody wants tohave mental in health. But because how
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we've been raised and talk, thefirst thing we hear, oh it's a
diagnose. But however, we haveto educate ourselves on what mental health is.
So with that saying, it's soimportant to sit down your child.
As coaches, to sit down witha kid and just say, how's it
going, how are you doing?Can I help you with something? But
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between that conversation to recognize some ofthose cues and signs of what they're going
through. I've had so many youththat grew up in the sports that and
I would notice as they got olderwhether or not someone unfortunate was physically touching
in or whether there no communication.Because I set the tone at the beginning
as a parent, as I callmyself, I say babies, and also
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as a coach, you gotta getthat communication with them for them to be
okay to talk to you. Becausewe as adults, we are quick to
say, you know what, arethey just the key? It's okay.
They're going through so much pressure.Is not like it used to be.
Social media is right at your hand. I tell people social media is a
handful of suicide. Yes it is, and it's sad to say that.
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But because people look at social mediaall day long, it's so important to
pull your child phone when I tellparents all the time, you pay for
that phone, when you are theowner, off the phone. Check that
phone, See what's going on,Check those text messages, see who they're
taxing. Check and see what socialmedia platforms they're on, what they're researching,
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what they're googling. A lot ofstuff that are happening to our children
is right up under the home becausethey're putting it out there on that platform
or they're got it in their phone. So it's so important. And the
thing about just like they say insports, a child won't care. Untiday
know you care. That's what parentsdo too. That that's it, and
they know you care, and you'reokay with them talking to you, they're
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not gonna come to you. Butonce you open up. But the thing
about that though, miss for instanceis we gotta let go our trauma as
an adult so we can be ableto receive when our kids are going through
stuff. Wow. So that's ahuge part too that I work with parents
saying, Okay, I understand yourparents didn't communicate with you. I understand
mom use sexual abuse too, buthow can we work with that? So
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when your daughter come to you andsay your boyfriend is doing it, you
won't get a set and say nobecause you're still bag on your trauma and
nobody believe you. We have tolet go so we can be able to
accept and understand all kids. AndI like to say, look at mental
health as a spectrum. That's kidsand adults. On that spectrum, you
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have good mental health, mental wellness, and then you have mental health where
people say bad. Guess what thatspectrum GOI go up and down. It
may be a death, family,you lean, it may be bad grades.
For kids, it leaves, itmay be a divorce. And for
their relationships, there are so relationships. They want to have their metric pajamas
just like adults now. So it'sso important that we talk to them but
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understand they're gonna have a spectrum.For my athletes, and sports. You
go from one school to a nextschool, and now you're not the start
player or another player steps in frontof you, You're gonna have some anxiety,
You're gonna have some depression. Soit's so important that we set the
tone in the beginning with talking andhaving community cation with our kids. And
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communication means don't be judgmental, comewith them, open minded and say,
Okay, I'm going to listen towhat you say. It may not be
what I want to hear, butat least I know you can't come to
me and I can correct you theright way. That is, Yeah,
so important for that. Yeah,And I think see, as you've said,
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a lot of the problem of ourcommunication, especially with each other,
our children or anything like that,is because that we have not been taught
in the community. We we we'vebeen taught to go through what you're gonna
go through, and we don't talkabout it. When somebody passed away,
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we kind of just went on withlife. We didn't talk about our feelings,
nor did we go to a therapist. God forbid, you say you
go to a therapist? You reallycrazy enough? Right now? Something wrong?
We have this uh cycle, Wehave this cycle that we're steadily chipping
away from because I think more ofus are being more vocally and talking about
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the things that we've gone through,trying to help other people. But it
can be difficult sometimes to even spotit, you know, to even recognize
or identify that your child or someonein your vicinity and your care is struggling.
So for me, nobody knew Iwas struggling when I was a teenager
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and all of that because I wasa good student, you know what I'm
saying. May A's didn't fight anyof that, you know what I'm saying,
but emotionally, mentally just breaking downevery day and just did not know
why, did not have the languageright, didn't feel like I had nobody
to talk to about it as well. Right, And then we get into
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these adults, We get to bethe adults that never dealt with it,
and then we bring it to ourown children. But I told myself,
listen, it starts with me.It's not with me. But the thing
is, what are some because itcan be difficult because all grief and loss
and things that go on with usmentally and emotional are not always readily seen.
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Yes, because just like you andI, we made those good grades.
People didn't really know you know,what was going on, you know
what I'm saying, But what aresome of the ways that we can look
out for that a young person couldexhibit that they're struggling even when it doesn't
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seem like it. I would definitelysay, you want to look at things
of change in their sleep, pattering, change in what they're eating. A
sleep pattern will tell you a lot. As myself, I would leave practice,
go home and go right in thebad. I didn't want to be
bored. I didn't want to talkto anyone because I was full of just
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rough emotions, tired and just youknow, it was at the point I
was like why am I me evenhere? So I had the suicide of
thoughts and everything too. So lookat those sleep patterns. Yes, I
kids nowadays, I hear a lotof pants. All they do is sit
in their room. You need tostart going there, checking in their room.
What it is in their room,that the reason why they want to
just stay in that room. Thatmeans you're gonna have to do a lot
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more of being in a room withthem to occupy that time with them.
Also checking their friends who they havearound them as friends looking at that,
that could equal a lot. Havetheir friends been some friends that was eight
on a roll. Now you justsee a whole switching to friends. How
they look, how they walk,how they dress, and how they talk.
We need to look into that.Also, you want to take a
look into the things and places theywant to go. They may stay off
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saying, you know, Mom,I don't want to go here, Dad,
I don't want to go here.I want to go such and such.
Those are the times we had acommunication. Why you no longer like
those friends? Why you no longerlike that place? What has changed?
That idea a big thing. AndI know I'm so big on sports,
but finding the right coach. Putthem in activities. Parents, We know
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you guys work too. You can'talways be around. But you put them
in activities, activities that they like. It's gonna be some they don't like,
but in those activities with the rightcoaches, the coaches are gonna pick
up two on some of the thingsthat they're going through. Look at that
for my younger babies. A lotof times you have the wristbands. This
is something big. When I wasactually in the office as a psychology I
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had a young kid that always worethe robo bands. I will tell this
mom, check the rober bands.The rober bands was his farm anxiety.
But he will pull it so hardthat everything up under his hands was skilled.
He had pulled it out. Soa lot of times you see kids
with all those rober bands and everything. You want to check on those different
things, check on their different clothing. Clothing can sometimes put in distress too.
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Darker clothes you give a darker Philly, You give a darker outlook on
life. You want to look intothose and ask them questions. Don't just
go and shop and give those things. Ask them them questions. Why are
they feeling that way? Ask themabout their teachers. If it's something going
on at school, you open up, so how is your teacher or the
teacher all right? But they mayjump into it's just the people in the
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classroom. They always work my nerves. Now you got a spot. What
you mean they work in nerves?How do they work on nerves? Now
it's time to ask the teacher.I'm just doing a check up because I
see once I start asking about school, they kind of got a look up.
So what are some things in schoolthat you can check in on?
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Ask the teacher. It's about mostimportant princesses being involved. You gotta want
to take that time to go overand beyond to be involved in your child
life and check on there because ofwhat's going on now someone's I know,
we hear, I just don't havea time. I'm gonna tell you make
the time ask those questions. Ifyou have multiple kids, I always used
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to suggest you need once a weekwhere you have time with each kid.
You gotta make that time. Comeon, is Jojo time right here?
Is Mike my time? Tuesday?It's her time Friday? Getting their individual
time at that individual time. You'rewatching everything. You're making sure you understand.
Some of y'all got young males,y'all understand, watch the phone,
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watch other stuff up under their bedthat they may be using. See.
We're just gonna keep it real becausethose are signs when they start thinking about
you're seeing different stuff in their rooms. The sexual science is that good?
Sexual science are bad? Sexual science? Is this something going on? Do
you get too fast? And nowI need to get a holt on him
because I don't need him out heremessed with nobody even inside of the house.
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Exactly, those conversations that we don'twant to talk about, but we
gotta be generated with it. Wecan be able to say, son,
if you're doing this, we needto make sure you're relation to yourself the
right way. And we're not justsaying this the Black film. You're gonna
be a boy, he gonna bea boy? No, sir, no
maynor yes about this, son,I see this is now going on,
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but we want to make sure you'redoing it right. And we also want
to make sure to understand when isthe time to do it. If you
got a hearth, I need youto, you know, come come go
talk to daddy exactly. It's communication. We don't think that it's big,
but it's the smallest things that thekid gonna come make and say, dang,
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I do probably need to talk today at a month because they took
the time out to talk to me. But it's not gonna be all the
time. But if you start communicatingwith them, when you start seeing those
science, it's gonna be more easierbecause, yes, as a team,
they're gonna pull away from you becausethey're gonna get to that time. But
because y'all had a communication, they'realways gonna be a time where they're gonna
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slip up and say, you knowwhat I got into? Ama? Who
your friend over ten years? Mmm, let me know more about it now
that it's your cue again looking atphone, maybe it's your clue to call
that parent house things going. It'sthe communication, I will say, it's
the biggest thing that you said earlyon with your child. You watch different
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things, like I said, fromthe social media, they look at television
shows they look at and also usingthose television shows Love and hip hop Atlanta
is a big thing, you know, to eat on those shows. As
I grow older, I go differentways from different stuff. Especially it utilize
us as specially as black women ina different way. You know. So
you can still look at that andsay, hey, you think about her
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how you think she should herself,and then you contribute that to them in
a communication. Now you get afeeling because it's gonna be some kids to
be like, oh, I likehow she looks, I know what she's
like. Now you just start thinkingabout those things. Yeah, community communication.
Communication is so key and and youknow, not just when they become
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high schoolers or teenagers. The conversationstarts is from birth. Again, even
when they can't even talk. Right, even when they can't talk, we
talking to them. They're learning howto communicate from us. So we are
poor communicators. They're gonna learn tobe poor communicators as well. But as
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long as we embrace them and leadthem into those conversations that are going to
be healthy for them, you knowthey're gonna have a thriving life. You
know, it takes a community,it takes a we we always say it
takes a village to raise a child, and it certainly does. And everybody
who we have uh that the childis in contact with and in their care
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for any reason, we have,I think, a responsibility to do just
that. So you know, thistime has gone also so quickly. But
our I wanted to ask you aquick question as we kind of wrap this
up. I know that you talka lot about the peer the pressure,
right, not necessarily always the peerpressure. For like, even when students
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do sports or any activity, anyextracurricular activity, because they dance and do
everything else too, but sometimes thereis stress and undue pressure they even parents,
we place on our children even whenthey don't want to do the sport,
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even when they don't want to goto dance practice even when they don't
want to go to this, that, and the other. They don't want
to learn how to sew. Theydon't want to learn how to so but
we push them into these places.Right, So, can you give some
quick encouragement to the parent, tothe students, or whoever is listening,
how that we can make sure thatwe are not pressuring or putting undue pressure
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on our children like that Y's parents. Stop it, stop stop. Allow
your kid to be a kid.If they would like to do it,
they will grow into you. Keepthem in that environment where they possibly can
see it. But if it's somethingthey don't want to do, don't push
them to do something that they don'twant to do, because now you are
already put in their head that theyhave to do things even though they don't
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want to. I know it seemssmall, but mentally and psychology, now
you got them in there. Idon't want to do this. I didn't
want to do that, but heforced me to do it. He pushed
me, said I should do it. When you start that early, it
seats in their heads. So giveingthem that time to communicate. Okay,
you don't want to do it,Why you don't want to do it,
and I know it's a sports place. Used to hear you're gonna do something,
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You're gonna play something. Put themin something they like so they can
flourish. See at least allow themto flourish and something they like. It
may not be fullbole. They maywant to do art. It may be
they may want to do piano ballet. Just let them pick or something that
they're gonna do. I do agreewith parents. They need to be active,
(29:08):
they mind, don't need to beidle at home or just in front
of some technology. Allow them todo that. But after they try out
and they don't want to do it, don't force them to do it.
That little small force. You've alreadybroken a relationship in some form of fashion
with your child, where now they'renot gonna tell you anything they want to
do because if they don't like it, they're gonna be scared that you're gonna
(29:30):
make them do it. So insteadof saying, ooh, I like that,
they're gonna be like, I likeit, but I ain't gonna say
because she's gonna make me do it, or he's gonna make me do it.
So allow them to make their choice. Unfortunately, it's not your life,
it's their life. So allow themto make the choice with you.
And that means as a parent,just getting information. They need to let
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you know why though, because whymaybe because I actually had a young girl
that didn't want to do ballet Mooreand her parents was forcing her. But
when I got through talking with them, that was because she was getting sexual
abused by the coaches. Oh wow, So she didn't want to be around
the coaches. And then when shewasn't when getting sexual abused because it was
predominantly white area j area shout outsay you know and nothing that and always
(30:18):
on podcasts nothing to her felm ofthat nature. She was getting racial swords.
So she was going through two thingsat one time on there and mom
was like, we paid all thismoney, you're gonna do this, you
gonna do this. But I justsat down and said, why you don't
want to do it? You're greeted, you amazing at it, and she
just broke down. So sometimes thatwhy not has a reason why? Absolutely
(30:45):
absolutely, that would be the biggestthing I would say, just communicate with
them on why not. Yeah,And that is a great way to end
this episode. Thank you so much, Coach Pe Coach Perry or being here
in this episode, I know thatyou have blessed so many people and so
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many parents right who have those children, whether they're in sports or not.
The ones of us who are mothers. We really needed to hear this because
we've got to make sure that thecommunication is there for our children so that
they cannot only survive teenage years,but they can thrive in life and they
can be productive members of society.Right, So before we get out of
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here, I want you to telleverybody how to follow you on social media
and how to connect with you otherwise. All right, yes, yes,
yes, number one coach parent onall social media platforms on Facebook usually Erica
and Power and pay around do moreon their Facebook because it's my personal page.
But guess what I want the peopleknow that my personal issue, guy
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is personal because I'm here to helpand empower everyone. So you also can
follow me on there too, andon there you would definitely see all pages
and platform the talkers first do apair you see Ms Prince's got it all
too. This is what we do, This is what we do. You
will see that too, because CoachParry is all about doing and not just
talking everybody say they want to makea change, but I'm here to say,
(32:14):
don't talk about it. Be adoor of the positive change that you
want to see. Absolutely, Sothank you again Coach Pete for being here
today and this I don't know thismight have worn a part too on this
one, so we'll we'll talk lateron that talk about Yes, all right,
well, we'll see you next time. I want to thank you all
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so much for being here on thisepisode of the Restore My Soul Podcast.
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