Community vs Ethics: When the Rules Don't Fit Our Reality!

In this powerful Mental Health Minute panel, Coach Mr. Adam welcomes four dynamic mental health professionals, Dr. Jay, Rosina, Ms. Daisy, and Dominique, for a heartfelt conversation about the emotional toll of caregiving. As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, this episode centers on the healers, therapists, counselors, and caregivers who hold space for others while carrying unseen wounds. Part One dives deep into the lived experience of clinicians of color navigating compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress (STS). With clinical insight and personal reflection, the panel unpacks what it means to provide care while experiencing collective trauma in real time, from the pandemic to racial injustice, and the emotional labor of doing right by the communities they serve. The conversation explores the complexity of role strain, the pressure to represent, and the burden of hypervisibility and invisibility in a profession that remains overwhelmingly white. We also touch on the quiet guilt of success, what some call success remorse, and the urgency of making space for more men of color in the field. This segment is both a resource and a reminder: healing others must not come at the cost of ourselves. Need a Healing Coach? 🌐 coachingwithmradam.com 🔗 LinkedIn 📸 Instagram #whoshelpingyouheal #coachmradam #mondaymotivation #healtalk #mentalhealthminute #changingthenarrative #fridaytransformation #blackandbrowninthewoods #healingsquad