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Brown Girl Lost: Exploring Mental Health as a Black Woman in America

Today I go public on a very personal journey, one that I had carried with shame for the past 40 years. It’s time to get real and remove…

3 min readOct 11, 2020

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Brown Girl Lost: Exploring Mental Health as a Black Woman in America

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Trina Ramsey

Mother’s Day 2023: Lessons on love and loss 42 years later

Chronicling my family’s mental health and healing story as I write my memoir

3 min readMay 14, 2023

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Mother’s Day 2023: Lessons on love and loss 42 years later

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Trina Ramsey

My mother is my hero. Reframing my shame about her death.

My mom was an amazing, fun, brilliant woman, whose blood courses through my veins. Today she would have been 77. But unfortunately she only…

3 min readNov 15, 2022

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My mother is my hero. Reframing my shame about her death.

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Trina Ramsey

Mom’s been gone 40 years. I finally can talk about her struggle with mental illness.

It’s Mother’s Day. I awoke at 3:45 am. Couldn’t go back to sleep, so I choose to write. Each Mother’s Day lands on me totally different…

5 min readMay 9, 2021

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Mom’s been gone 40 years. I finally can talk about her struggle with mental illness.

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Trina Ramsey

Author, heal thyself… the pain of unmasking my family’s tragedy.

Writing a memoir about mental illness, suicide, alcoholism and poverty has changed me already. I’m not the same person I was 15 months ago…

4 min readFeb 6, 2021

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Author, heal thyself… the pain of unmasking my family’s tragedy.

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Trina Ramsey

The Case for Hope in 2021: Caring for Our Mind, Body and Spirit During a Pandemic

It’s December 2020, nearly a year since the scourge of COVID-19 took over our world, and just a couple weeks away from a new year.

4 min readDec 18, 2020

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The Case for Hope in 2021: Caring for Our Mind, Body and Spirit During a Pandemic

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Trina Ramsey

My Soul Speaks to Me…

Reflections on 2020

2 min readNov 8, 2020

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My Soul Speaks to Me…

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Trina Ramsey

It’s always about race. Let’s not kid ourselves.

I originally wrote this back in August. This was sitting in my computer, having done its job to provide a moment of catharsis.

7 min readOct 25, 2020

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It’s always about race. Let’s not kid ourselves.

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Trina Ramsey

Trina Ramsey

Writer. Coach. Mom. Advocate for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. I share my story in hopes of joining a growing dialogue to de-stigmatize mental illness.

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