5 for 50: The Truths I’m Carrying Into This New Decade
Brown Girl Self-Care
Brown Girl Self-Care
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🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week I turn 50. Instead of balloons or cake, I’m marking this milestone by sharing five truths that feel carved into me now. Call it my 5 for 50. These are the lessons I’m carrying into this next decade—about boundaries, embodiment, reciprocity, friendship, and trusting the timing of my life.
If you’re in your 40s, 50s, 60s, I hope you hear yourself in these truths. And if you’re younger, I hope you take them as reminders to claim your life sooner rather than later.
In this episode I share:
- Why I will no longer overexplain myself
- How my body, not the clock, sets the pace for my life
- The line I’ve drawn around reciprocity in relationships and work
- The honest truth about not knowing how to be a good friend until later in life
- Why I am no longer comparing my timeline to anyone else’s
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| 1:01.6 | Hey, hey, you're listening to the Brown Girl Self-Care Podcast. |
| 1:05.1 | My name is Bree. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm the host of the show, as well as the founder of Brown Girl Self-Care. |
| 1:10.1 | Brown-girl self-care is a platform and space |
| 1:12.0 | of intentional healing joy rest and abundance for black women hey do you know what this week is no it is |
| 1:20.5 | not my anniversary but your girl is turning 50 in just a few days as of this episode being released. The big five. Oh, like, it is a blessing |
| 1:34.9 | to be turning 50. It really, really is. I was doing some reflection, reflecting on this |
| 1:43.7 | recently and just thinking about how our ancestors, |
| 1:47.1 | the people that came before us, you know, they were lucky to make it into their 30s and 40s, |
| 1:54.8 | right? So the fact that I am turning 50 is a, it's a very big deal, a very big deal. |
| 2:00.9 | So I want to talk to you today about five, let's call them truths that are coming with me |
| 2:08.5 | into this new decade. |
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