Thea Monyee
@TheaMonyee
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Def Poet. Author. Therapist. Mother. Dream Chaser. Lemonade Mixologist. Mythology Maker. Co-host of @demblackmamas. Repped by @JimMcCarthy528.
Los Angeles
Joined August 2009
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"What I desire most is to end the suffering within Black bodies, not to sedate it or temporarily relieve it, but to eradicate it." #BlavityOpEd by @TheaMonyee
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To receive mental health treatment from a system rooted in a country actively and intentionally causing mental health distress is psychotic, gaslighting, and violent.
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Great piece written by my friend @TheaMonyee in @Blavity. Topic: leaving the U.S. mental health profession. It’s compelling and has many truths. #MentalHealth #WellnessWednesday #BlackMentalHealth #MentalWellness
https://t.co/qwKWEKoibK
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To receive mental health treatment from a system rooted in a country actively and intentionally causing mental health distress is psychotic, gaslighting, and violent.
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On this episode of Sound Advice, we asked therapist and successful entrepreneur @TheaMonyee what she’d do differently if she could start her business all over again. Have a listen to her insightful answer.
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Excited for @TheaMonyee to bring her work to our community at @SFSU & @SFSUDECI today, Tuesday, 3/29. Open to everyone. Zoom information below. 🎓 #SFState #SFSU #MentalWellness #HigherEd
#SFState / #SFSU scholars. Join us for the Hold Us Sacred series facilitated by @TheaMonyee - discussions on how we see the sacred within. Tuesday, 3/29, 4-5pm PST. Unpacking Ancestral Inheritance RSVP: https://t.co/rnr48pETLk. Giveaways for 1st 25 registered and attending.
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#SFState / #SFSU scholars. Join us for the Hold Us Sacred series facilitated by @TheaMonyee - discussions on how we see the sacred within. Tuesday, 3/29, 4-5pm PST. Unpacking Ancestral Inheritance RSVP: https://t.co/rnr48pETLk. Giveaways for 1st 25 registered and attending.
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“This is not about me. This is about marginalized people in Harlem that need to heal from pain.” @questlove accepts the Best Documentary Feature Oscar for 'Summer of Soul': https://t.co/DYxg12anbB
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we finna get thinkpieced straight to the ancestral plane this week
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some of y’all should have gotten slapped a long time ago and never did so now you’re on Twitter using this recent incident as an excuse to be anti-Black. may the hands find you too.
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The coping isn’t the healing…it’s the surviving. And if we don’t unravel this piece and continue to give comedy a grand pass…we don’t allow the gift of laughter to heal in the beautiful and powerful ways we know it can.
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It’s time to look at the ways comedy and comedians who reach levels of success where the harm can have greater impact, need to seek healing, and where they themselves can become the bullies they once used laughter to survive.
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This helps us to make it through very difficult times. Some of us even make careers from that coping (👋🏾 hello fellow therapists 😉).
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This has specifically been my experience with male comedians. Of course this is not EVERY comedian…but in light of recent events this is worth a conversation. We all have ways of coping in childhood that we use to survive.
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I’ve watched bystanders sit in silence, watching me try to protect myself from someone who spent their formidable years learning how to use words to deflect and weaponized jokes against the forces in their life they could not control.
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I’ve been in spaces with comedians who were abusive and violent and masked their pain as jokes towards others.
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It’s time to talk about healing in comedy. Many comedians share their backstory and cite traumas and childhood challenges, often violent on some level, and how they used comedy to survive it. But that doesn’t mean the pain from the trauma heals.
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Buried in all the madness is that Will Smith's win makes him only the 5th Black actor to win the Oscar for Best Actor, and the first in 16 years, since Forest Whitaker won for "The Last King of Scotland" in 2006. #Oscars
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Me watching the entire internet act like they ain’t never exhibited violence if any sort (physical, emotional, psychological, legal, financial, hell spiritual) over someone they love…
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