Black Women Aren't Supposed to Do These Extreme Self-Care Acts

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

I want to preface this episode with a couple of things:

#1 – Extreme self-care isn’t about shock value. It’s about survival, liberation, and choosing yourself when everything around you says don’t.

#2 – The choices I’m sharing in this episode may feel uncomfortable, even unthinkable, because Black women are socialized to endure instead of disrupt. But these choices are valid. They are powerful. And they are yours to claim.

In this episode of the Brown Girl Self-Care Podcast, I’m talking about five extreme self-care moves that many of us are told we can’t choose:

Cutting off a parent
Declining the caregiver role
Choosing not to have children
Leaving the traditional church
Investing in yourself first

To live well we sometimes have to be extreme or disrupt the status quo. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Leave a comment on Spotify. Share this episode and tag me on social. Email me at [email protected]

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0:33.5	Hey, hey, hey, what is going on? You're listening to the Brown Girl Self Care podcast.
0:37.9	My name is Bree.
0:39.3	I am the host of the show as well as the founder of Brown Girl Self Care.
0:42.8	Now, let me preface this by saying I am recording this for YouTube as well.
0:49.2	And I also have my notes to my left because I want to do my best to stay on target or on point,
0:57.0	which can sometimes be hard for me to do. So if you see me looking down, if you're watching
1:01.8	on YouTube, that's why, because I want to make sure that I hit all the points about what
1:06.0	I'm about to talk about with you today. So, girl, let's go ahead and get into it. This is what I want to talk
1:12.0	about today. I want to talk about the fact that more and more we collectively are seeing
1:18.1	how black women are really out in these streets prioritizing themselves. And I mean, going
1:26.4	through extreme lengths to make sure that we are prioritizing our mental
1:33.0	health, our financial health, our physical health, like all of the healths, okay?
1:37.3	We are going to the extreme.
1:39.6	And I mean extreme as in these are things that would probably are frowned upon especially if a black woman
1:48.1	is having the audacity to do these things because we know that for a black woman generally
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