# @yourmindandme on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CIy07MAjx-p
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/12267785-yourmindandme-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-12-14T22:01:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pooja Mamidanna (@yourmindandme) — https://gondola.cc/yourmindandme

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✨Dear Grad Student EPISODE 18 is LIVE!✨⁣
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✏️The COVID Cohort: Starting, Adjusting, & Staying in Grad School During a Pandemic ✏️⁠⠀⁣
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I am happy to have been a guest speaker for the podcast series Dear Graduate Student. I got to share my story of being a 1st-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student being part of the 'COVID Cohort' -- AKA students who started grad school during the pandemic.⁠⠀⁣
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What to look forward to: ⁠⠀⁣
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🎙 A look into my passion for mental health & providing therapy to clients from marginalized / diverse communities + my future plans to start my own private practice⁠.⠀⁣
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🎙Accepting my PhD offer when the world was shutting down (and why I didn't defer)⁠.⁣
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🎙 My experience of racism & discrimination in academia.⁣
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🎙 My grief journey throughout the pandemic.⁣
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🎙 How others in the COVID Cohort can support themselves & how the rest of us can help next semester and onward⁠⠀.⁣
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✨I would also like to thank my AMAZING mentor, Dr. Helen Hsu hellamentalhealth , for encouraging me to share my story for the podcast.⁣
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You can find the podcast here 🎙 :⁣
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dear-grad-student/id1527870894#episodeGuid=Buzzsprout-6779386

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Kindly follow and subscribe to the podcast series, especially if you’re a graduate student. Elana is brilliant and is incredibly authentic and passionate about providing education and resources to the community 🥰🤩✨.⁣
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