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

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

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

balanced black girl podcast. If this is your first time tuning in, welcome to the

show I am your host Lestestrandra. And if you have been with me before,

welcome back. Thank you so much for tuning in to yet another episode.

So this episode is not going to be our last episode of 2019 but it is going to be our last interview for 2019. Also last interview of the decade.

I actually kind of hate that I said that just now

because all of this end of the decade talk

has actually been deriving me a little bit crazy. It is factually the end of the

decade. I get that. We're heading into 2020. However, I do think that the internet and social media has put pressure on all of us to feel like we either

need to have these big grandiose plans as to what the next decade is going to look like.

And I also feel like it has kind of brought out some feelings of comparison in needing to

recap and put out there all of the things that we've done this decade.

While I think it's super important and incredible to marvel on our growth over the past decade,

because I guarantee each and every one of us has grown, evolved, and changed so much in the past 10 years.

I do think that the process of reflecting on that can be done so in a way that doesn't need to evoke comparison and others and I think

that the internet has kind of misconstrued that a little bit where every little thing that happens we kind of make a big deal out of it.

So if you're not feeling super great about that, if you're not feeling super great about

the start of a new decade or you're feeling maybe a little bit down about how this past decade went,

I encourage you to take a deep breath, show yourself a little bit of love and don't sweat it.

You know, we weren't stressing out like this when it was 2009 going into 2010.

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