Hey, hey, welcome back to the Brown Girl Self Care Podcast. My name is Bree, and in today's episode,

I want to give you some words of, I guess, wisdom or intuition, advice, sisterly advice,

auntie advice, girlfriend advice. If I was your sister, your auntie, your auntie, your bestie, you're, or someone in your inner circle. This is some

advice that I would give you right now. And I say this with love. With all the love in the world.

What I would tell you is that right now with everything that is going on, right now in this year, 2026, with everything that is going on,

now is not the time for distractions. And by distractions, I mean, you are going to need to give up some of the sideline stuff that is keeping you weighed down right now in this season.

You're going to have to release some things, let some things go, things that you are doing for convenience that really are keeping you, or are going to hinder

you this year. This year, I feel, is going to be a breakthrough year for many black women.

I feel like there is a chance or an opportunity for us to really not only put ourselves first, but put

ourselves in a situation or put ourselves in a position, I should say, to really get what we

came for if you catch my drift, really set ourselves up or put ourselves in a position

to really have the type of life that we want to have live the type of life that we want to live

but it will be impossible for some of us because we are allowing distraction and comfort to keep us in kind of like with the wool over our eyes.

We refuse or we're not allowing ourselves to see, for example, where we are or your current circumstance for what it really is

and or you're allowing maybe embarrassment or pain to kind of like put the wool over your eyes as well.

And so you're going to get to the end of 2026 and you're going to be very disappointed because the distractions that are distracting you are just doing what they were designed to do.

So maybe your distraction is embarrassment or fear or anxiety.

Okay. And this is not a finger-point episode. I experience anxiety and fear. Listen, I feel like I was in a freeze mode for several parts of 2025. And I had to

really sit with that because I, as much as I'm aware, I'm not aware all the time because I was very functional in other areas.

But with the move and everything and just life, you know, in general, I ended up being in freeze mode in certain, in small portions of my life.

And I really had to take time to process that, right?

So that was my distraction.

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