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Affirmations for Black Girls

419 | Pressing Pause & Learning to Reset. The Art of Slowing Down to Speed Up. The Power of Intentional Rest.

Affirmations for Black Girls

Tyra The Creative

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

What do you think about the sentiment less is more? In this week’s episode Tyra explores the power of doing less — and how that intentional slowing down can lead to more clarity, creativity, and peace. We’ve been taught that rest is something we have to earn, but what if rest is actually the secret to becoming our fullest selves?

Through personal stories, gentle reminders, and a few hard truths, Tyra invites you to rethink your relationship with rest and reimagine what productivity can look like when it's rooted in presence instead of pressure.


This week’s affirmation is “I choose peace over pressure, and presence over perfection.”


3 Biggest Takeaways from this episode:

  1. Rest is not a reward — it’s a right.
  2. Taking breaks can boost your creativity and productivity, not block it.
  3. If you’re not careful, constantly “doing” can cause you to miss the life you're actually living.


Resources

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:53.6

It's about keeping

0:54.4

everything secure. Just about our entire lives, we've been trained to equate busy with

1:02.6

important. Hustle with success and being tired with being worthy. But what if I told you that

1:09.8

sometimes the most productive thing you can do

1:13.1

is pause. That doesn't mean to quit. That doesn't mean to disappear just to pause, to take a

1:20.6

beat. If you're constantly moving, constantly creating, constantly showing up for everybody else,

1:27.3

when do you have time to actually

1:29.4

hear yourself to check in with what you need and not just what's expected of you?

1:35.1

I heard someone ask the question, what's the reward for hard work?

1:39.9

And the answer was more hard work.

1:43.2

And I don't know who needs to hear this, but that cannot be the whole story.

1:48.9

At some point, you've got to decide that you're not just working to prove something or to survive.

1:56.0

You're also allowed to just be, to breathe, to let the work be the pause, because if you don't slow down,

2:04.7

life will eventually find a way to slow down for you.

2:09.4

Powerful.

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