The Black Mother Wound Podcast

This week’s episode was recorded live at the 2026 Mental Wealth Expo hosted by Charlamagne Tha God and the Mental Wealth Alliance.

I’m joined by licensed therapist and author Minaa B for a conversation about the Black mother wound, sibling relationships and what happens when the mother who hurt you becomes the mother who needs your care.

We talk about:

-How the mother wound impacts self-trust, confidence and people plea...

What happens after you’ve spent years healing your mother wound?

At some point, you have to start living.

In this episode, I’m talking about having the audacity to go after the life you actually want, especially when you didn’t grow up with someone encouraging your dreams, believing in you or teaching you how to believe in yourself.

I share what this looks like in my own life as I return to the parts of myself tha...

This episode is a little different. You’re listening to audio from the live episode of the Black Mother Wound Podcast I recorded in June 2026 in front of a live audience.

And y’all came with the questions.

We talked about what healing actually looks like when your mother is still in your life, how the mother wound follows us into friendships and romantic relationships, rebuilding trust with our children and lear...

Do I ever regret the time you lost because of your mother wound?

I do.

When you start healing, you can look back and see just how much your relationship with your mother shaped your choices, relationships, confidence and the life you built. And there can be real grief in realizing what might have been different.

In this episode, I’m talking about what we do with that regret without getting stuck in resentment. Because grie...

In this episode of the Black Mother Wound Podcast, Jennifer answers a listener question about what happens when you ignore healing your mother wound and how to become more consistent in healing your inner little girl.

Jennifer breaks down a truth that sits at the center of this work: the mother wound is not just about the relationship you have with your mother. It is about the relationship you have with yourself. More specifically,...

How do you recognize danger when danger was normal growing up? How do you receive love when the love you knew was conditional? And how do you know when you're making a decision from healing versus guilt and people pleasing?

These questions all come back to the same place: your relationship with yourself.

In this episode, I’m talking about what it really takes to rebuild trust with yourself after the mother wound taught you to...

What happens when you’ve done all the inner work, but your actual life still isn’t changing?

You’ve read the books. You’ve listened to the podcasts. You’ve journaled, meditated, said the affirmations and worked on your mother wound. But you’re still struggling with money, stability, your career, or simply taking care of yourself.

At some point, the inner work has to become outer work.

In this epi...

The way you speak to yourself did not start with you.

The words spoken over you, and the ones that never came, do not simply pass through, they take root. They settle into the soil of your mind, growing into beliefs that shape how you see yourself, how you move, and what you believe you are allowed to have. Over time, those beliefs become patterns, and those patterns begin to feel like identity. What started as someone else&...

In this episode of the Black Mother Wound Podcast, Jennifer gets honest about what came up after her AC went out in the middle of a South Carolina summer. What started as a home ownership problem quickly became something much deeper: shame, self-blame, loneliness, and the pain of realizing how much she was never taught.

Jennifer unpacks the emotional weight of being a smart, capable, high-functioning Black woman who still feels lik...

What happens when being helpful becomes the way you prove that you’re a good person?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and I finally had to admit something I’ve been dancing around for a long time. 
I’m tired of helping people. 
Not because I don’t care about people. Not because I don’t have anything to give. And definitely not because I don’t know how to help.&nbs...

For so many of us, healing isn't just about setting boundaries with other people. It's about finally stopping the habit of abandoning ourselves.

In this episode, I'm talking about something I've been actively working through in real time: learning how to let myself be seen without trying to explain, justify, or soften who I am so other people will approve.

Somewhere along the way, many of us learned that being a "good woman," a "go...

After sharing that she had started driving Uber at 51, Jennifer expected judgment. Instead, nearly 50,000 people watched the video, and hundreds reached out with encouragement, support, and stories of their own.
In this episode, Jennifer shares what happened after the video went viral, including the support that felt unfamiliar, the stranger who created an entire video criticizing her, and the sold out Black Mother Wound live po...

For years, Jennifer believed she and her mother had a close relationship.

They talked every day. They spent time together. They shopped together. She called her mother her best friend.

But healing has a way of making us revisit old stories and ask harder questions.

In this episode, Jennifer explores the painful difference between genuine closeness and enmeshment. She unpacks how many Black daughters confuse access, obligation, guil...

Healing isn't about becoming someone new. It's about undoing who your mother taught you to be.

In this episode, Jennifer introduces a new framework for healing the Black Mother Wound by exploring why safety—not shame, fear, or pressure—is the foundation of lasting change. She explains how many Black women developed an identity built around survival, obedience, and keeping the peace instead of becoming who they truly are...

In this episode of the Black Mother Wound Podcast, Jennifer gets honest about what came up after her AC went out in the middle of a South Carolina summer. What started as a home ownership problem quickly became something much deeper: shame, self-blame, loneliness, and the pain of realizing how much she was never taught.

Jennifer unpacks the emotional weight of being a smart, capable, high-functioning Black woman who still feels lik...

Today, Jennifer gets honest about a realization that hit hard: what she thought was being considerate, thoughtful, kind, and “a good person” was actually codependency.

This is a real-time processing episode about what happens when your identity has been built around service, being liked, being needed, and making sure everybody else is comfortable. Jennifer explores how Black girls are often groomed to find their value i...

Have you ever looked around at the life you've built and thought, "I should be happy, but I'm exhausted?"

This week's episode was inspired by a listener who asked a heartbreaking question:

"How do I start finding compassion for myself? It was absent in my life and I have always been in survival mode."

After spending 35 years taking care of everyone else, she finds herself emotionally drained, disconnected from herself, and feeling ...