You are listening to the Brown Girl Self Care podcast. My name is Bree. I am the host of the show,

as well as the founder of Brown Girl Self Care. Brown Girl Self Care is a platform in space of

intentional healing, joy, rest, and abundance for Black women. I want to talk about how now is not

the time to be consuming all the things.

Now is not the time to be consuming all the things. I am talking specifically to those of us,

and I'm raising my hand to, because this is me, but I'm talking specifically to those of us, and I'm raising my hand to, because this is me,

but I'm talking specifically to those of us who have spent years, if not decades, of our

lives waiting around for someone to come and fix everything for us. Not that you've been the cause of these

problems necessarily, but you've been waiting for someone to come along, take your hand,

give you the answers, give you the solutions, tell you what to do, you know what I'm saying,

tell you how to be, like you're looking

for a leader when in fact you in this season have been called to step forward and lead

in some part of your dynamic. Okay. Again, I'm raising my hand because I am someone who for years,

okay, that's a lot, decades,

I have been consuming, consuming, consuming versus being in a state of being slash creating, that it began to shape so much of my identity.

I felt like I couldn't solve my own problems.

I couldn't help myself get out of situations.

Okay.

I couldn't be the, excuse me,

be the person that I needed myself to be

to help get into a place where I am deeply rooted in who I am so much so that I can

bloom in any situation. I kept waiting for a leader to come and lead me when in fact I was

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