Dr. Taylor Cummings

What do we really need?

What is ways that we can maybe prevent this from happening?

But also sometimes that is the experience that you need.

And I can't really stop that or interfere with that either.

And so I think just having a safe space for people to experience themselves

experience others and be in community with people who get it.

Because like we said, not everybody gets it.

You can't talk to this about everybody.

So you want to talk about hallucinations and delusions and all types of stuff.

And it's like, OK, you know, so having a dedicated space to do that, I think is really important.

Trauma bonding.

Trauma bonding.

That's what brings black folks together.

talk about is our traumatic history you know but I do think we need a space to just lay it all down to just say here this is what I'm dealing with because you can't do that anywhere else you can't go to work and talk about it your family usually they're the reason for it you know so really understanding where you can go um I think so having those spaces like you said is important because we do need a space to just be you know and we don't really have that what are some

I think about that all the time in terms of like analogy.

It's like you're walking through a dark tunnel.

You don't see the light.

And either you're brave enough to continue walking and knowing that there is light at the end or you get scared and you run out, you know, and so you're in.

But you're right back where you came from.

So really understanding what it means to move through it and walk through it and how to see in the dark.