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42 | Practicing Self-Care While Dismantling Everyday Racism with Monique Melton

She's So Lucky

She's So Lucky

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

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode, we’re talking to Monique Melton, host of the Shine Brighter Together Podcast. Monique is an anti-racism educator, published author, and international speaker. She is also the founder of Shine Brighter Together, which is a community dedicated to healthy relationships & diverse unity.

She travels the world speaking at conferences and events on topics related to anti-racism, personal growth, diversity, and relationships. She’s been published in magazines, featured in blogs and podcasts and has touched the lives of people all over the world.

She is a natural big-bold dreamer and a deeply rooted woman of faith. She is a proud Navy wife to her high-school sweetheart and she is a loving mother to two little ones. She has a BA in social science with an emphasis in sociology & psychology and two years of graduate school education in Clinical Counseling from Johns Hopkins University.

In this episode, we talk about…

  • Why being “not racist” isn’t enough.
  • Practicing self-care after performing intense emotional labor.
  • Understanding internalized racism.
  • Dismantling problematic beliefs and behaviors.

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Balance Black Girl Podcast. We're putting Black Girl Magic in motion.

0:07.0

This show is dedicated to reinventing wellness for women of color.

0:11.0

I'm your host Lestrandra Alfred. Thank you so much for

0:16.0

tuning into this week's episode of the balanced Black Girl podcast. This is your

0:22.2

first time joining us. Thank you so much for

0:24.3

tuning into the show and welcome. And if you are a returning listener,

0:28.9

welcome back. I am so happy to have you here.

0:33.6

So this has been quite a hectic season for yours, truly.

0:39.9

We have been doing all of the events, we've been doing all of the events.

0:42.8

We've been doing all of the things.

0:44.7

The show has been going full speed ahead,

0:47.0

and it has been really, really incredible.

0:51.2

And every week on this show, usually ask our guests what does being a

0:55.1

balanced black girl mean to you. But I am starting to find myself in more and

1:00.9

more situations where I'm starting to ask myself that question

1:04.2

where I'm going less what does being a balanced black girl mean to you because if I

1:08.8

can be totally honest with y'allately I have been feeling like a very unbalanced black girl and I

1:17.2

realized that even though my work is important to me and the show is important to me and supporting you all and

1:25.5

what we create here is important if I don't take time to actually take care of

1:30.7

myself which I will be honest I haven't been doing for quite some time.

1:35.5

That's a problem and I really need to be walking the walk in what I do and what I share and I can't necessarily be so focused on

1:45.6

creating and sharing at the expense of actually taking care of myself which is the

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