Ta'lor Pinkston | The Heart Advocate, Licensed "Self-love" Social Worker, Mental Health Professional
From Self-Neglect to Self-love
Interview Description:
In this powerful Shame to Shine interview, Ta’lor L, "The Heart Advocate," shares her courageous journey of transforming shame and self-neglect into self-love and empowerment.
A licensed self-love social worker and mental health professional, Ta’lor opens up about her experience in a verbally and psychologically abusive relationship during pregnancy and postpartum. Despite being trained to help others, she found herself trapped in silence and shame—until the practice of self-love became her lifeline.
Today, Ta’lor uses her story to teach others how to make self-love a coping skill—a daily practice of compassion, boundaries, and worthiness that changes everything.
You are worthy of the love you give so freely to others—and it starts by offering it to yourself first.
About the Speaker
Ta'lor L. Pinkston, LSW is a Licensed "Self-love" Social Worker also known as "The Heart Advocate." The Heart Advocate is dedicated to helping individuals choose self-love as a coping skill for mental health and healing. The Heart Advocate provides individual self-love sessions and facilitates workshops and presentations on the importance of self-love in mental health, healthy relationships, and why "Self-care Matters." Ta'lor received her masters in Social Work in 2015 at California University of Pennsylvania. She received her certification in the Foundations of Self-love through the Path of Self-love in 2017 and became a Licensed Social Worker in 2022. She is the Clinical Practice Program Manager of at Healthy Start Inc, Pittsburgh providing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to prenatal and postpartum mothers with Major Depression Disorder.
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