{"id":8062,"date":"2025-06-23T13:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8062\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:20:10","slug":"philadelphia-therapist-builds-sisterhood-and-self-care-on-two-wheels-with-black-girl-joy-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8062\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia therapist builds sisterhood and self-care on two wheels with Black Girl Joy Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, a growing group of Black women gathers in Philadelphia for something simple yet life-changing \u2013 a bike ride that&#8217;s all about joy, community, and putting themselves first.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called Black Girl Joy Bike Ride, a weekly outing created in 2023 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ireshadahoodtherapist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">therapist Iresha Picot<\/a>. She said Black women are often taught to care for everyone else before themselves, and it&#8217;s costing lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Black women, we&#8217;ve been conditioned to put everybody else&#8217;s needs before our own. A lot of us are dying from stress-related diseases, from preventable diseases,&#8221; Picot said.<\/p>\n<p>So she decided to take back an hour, or more, each week with a guided four to five-mile ride through the city.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/black-girl-joy-bike-ride-2.jpg\" alt=\"black-girl-joy-bike-ride-2.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>For those without a bike, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rideindego.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indego Bikes<\/a>\u00a0and Philly Bikes help make it happen. Frequent riders have even received gifted bikes to keep them rolling.<\/p>\n<p>With hand signals learned, balance tested, and a few laughs, we rode through West Philly together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is something bigger than I ever dreamed about,&#8221; Picot said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just to be able to be around Black and Brown women where we&#8217;re having self-care for each other,&#8221; one of the riders said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/wakisha-biking.jpg\" alt=\"wakisha-biking.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Friendships are built on these rides. For many, it&#8217;s a chance to see the city in a new light and reclaim peace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hear so much bad things about our city, but riding makes it beautiful,&#8221; another rider said.<\/p>\n<p>For Picot, it&#8217;s more than cycling \u2014 it&#8217;s a calling.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pkg-wb-stl-black-girl-bike-ride-transfer-frame-2477.jpg\" alt=\"pkg-wb-stl-black-girl-bike-ride-transfer-frame-2477.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like my mission is complete. I just want to bring Black women together and do it in the name of like joy and community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Black Girl Joy Bike Ride isn&#8217;t just a movement. It&#8217;s a community. It&#8217;s family. And it&#8217;s spreading the love, one mile at a time.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/search\/author\/wakisha-bailey\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wakisha  Bailey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Wakisha Bailey joined CBS News Philadelphia as a reporter in July 2021.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every week, a growing group of Black women gathers in Philadelphia for something simple yet life-changing \u2013 a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1728,1448,2830,1311,9431,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-8062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-exercise","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-spreading-the-love","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114732887428314083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}