How Free Therapy Is Making a Difference in Black Communities
After losing more than 30 loved ones, one man found hope through the resources at Black Men Heal.
“I really wasn’t too keen on therapy, because I always felt like therapy was for individuals who were mentally ill.”
This is what Ajene Prince believed raised in a neighborhood where violence felt like the norm and men were expected to be tough. Then 2020 happened.
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, and the worldwide protests that erupted over the police violence inflicted on Black Americans, Prince, then 33, was looking for a space to express his emotions freely. The heaviness of the moment weighed on him, resurfacing the grief he had experienced losing numerous friends to violence as a teenager.
He reached out to his college fraternity brothers, and one of them posed a question in their group chat: Where do they go when they feel they have no one to talk to? One member shared a link to Black Men Heal.
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