103 | Overcoming Toxic Positivity and Spiritual Bypassing

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Lesalfred, #Shessolucky, Entrepreneurship, Balancedles, Business, Self-improvement, Balancedblackgirl, Education

4.9 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

We face some hard truths in today's episode, and also some thoughtful opportunities to change our relationship with emoting. As Black women, we are all too familiar with the strong Black woman stereotype. Many of us encountered guilt and shame when experiencing any emotions outside of gratitude. And although it's good to have perspective, we still are human and need to be able to express all of which makes us who we are - and that includes our full spectrum of emotions.

So grab a journal and have a cup of tea by your side. Get ready to push pause and give yourself the space to explore your feelings - perhaps even meeting sides you that you've never seen before.

I ALSO TALK ABOUT…

Our emotions are our teachers.
Gratitude is not a catch-all.
Blanket support is not real support.
Creating safety to emote.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Balanced Black Girl, a podcast dedicated to mental, physical, and emotional
0:10.2	health from the Black woman's perspective.
0:13.0	Tune in to hear from Black woman health and wellness experts giving the approachable
0:17.2	advice you need to help you feel your best.
0:20.2	I'm your host, Lestrandra Alfred, let's dive in.
0:27.8	Welcome back to Balanced Black Girl, today we're going to talk about feelings.
0:32.4	Okay, please don't exit the podcast app.
0:35.1	That maybe wasn't the best way to kick off the episode, because I know if I would have
0:40.0	heard someone start a conversation like that six months ago, I would have exited out
0:43.7	of this app so fast, I wouldn't have heard them finish the word feelings, but I'll make
0:50.5	it worth your while to stick around.
0:54.6	So if you happen to be the journaling type, this could be a good episode to have your
0:59.7	journal alongside you for, and I encourage you to pause and write down anything that
1:05.4	comes up for you as you listen, unless you're driving, then don't do that.
1:11.7	Currently on the podcast, we're exploring the idea of raising your vibration and what
1:17.2	that feels like using different tools and exploring different beliefs.
1:22.6	As I mentioned in the first episode of this series, a major part of raising my vibration
1:27.6	has been allowing myself to be more in touch with my feelings.
1:32.2	A lot of this work came about for me when my emotional floodgates opened and when I finally
1:39.2	just let it all flow.
1:42.4	And I learned that emoting openly can actually be a challenge for many of us because I took
1:47.3	to Instagram to talk about it and got a response that so many of you were feeling the same
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