Welcome to Balanced Black Girl, a podcast dedicated to mental, physical, and emotional

health from the Black woman's perspective.

Tune in to hear from Black woman health and wellness experts giving the approachable

advice you need to help you feel your best.

I'm your host, Lestrandra Alfred.

Let's dive in.

Thank you for listening to Balanced Black Girl.

My name is Lest.

I am your host.

I've been talking over here in this little space for a little over three years now, and

I started Balanced Black Girl because I wanted to save space to chat well-being with other

Black and Brown women in wellness.

I wanted to learn from them, to learn their tips and tricks and how they do things, and

I also like to throw in some solo episodes in the mix so that you and I can chill and

talk wellness one-on-one, which is what we're going to be doing today.

We are in the middle of our reframing the reset, series, and challenge looking at creating

rituals and systems of self-care and re-imagining wellness practices in the world we now live in.

Since the start of the pandemic, I have become so much more mindful and thoughtful about

my space, my living space, my work space, my digital space.

Many people have spent a lot more time at home and in one space over the past two years

than they did before myself included, and spending so much time in one space has really

led to me reframing my relationship with material things, clutter, my daily habits, just

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