Can You Be in Community With Yourself? Are You Your Best Friend?

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We talk about wanting community. Wanting softness. Craving care and to be seen. The thing is though, how are you gonna ask for that from other people, or give it to other people, when you don’t even give it to yourself?

In this episode, I’m talking about what it really means to be in community with yourself.

You’re out here showing up for everybody else, doing the most, saying yes when you don’t mean it, and ignoring what you need. That’s a form of self-abandonment.

I’m sharing some things I wrote in my journal this week, a few hard truths about how we treat ourselves, and why being your own best friend is the kind of care that changes everything.

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1:01.6	Hey, what's going on? You are listening to the Brown Girl Self Care podcast. My name is Bree.
1:06.4	I'm the host of the show as well as the founder of Brown Girl Self Care.
1:10.7	Brown Girl Self Care is a platform in space of intentional healing, as well as the founder of Brown Girl Self-Care. Brown Girl Self-Care is a platform
1:12.1	in space of intentional healing, joy, rest and abundance for Black women. We're going to go ahead
1:18.5	and get right on into this week's episode. Last week, we talked about self-abandonment and self-trust.
1:27.9	And so in this week's episode, I want to carry it a step further and talk about or ask you, do you know how to be in community with yourself?
1:41.8	Do you know how to be your own best friend? Okay. So really quick, if you did not get a chance
1:52.0	to listen to that episode, I would encourage you to either before you listen to this one in full
1:58.8	or after you listen to this one in full, go ahead and just
2:02.1	go back one episode to last Monday's episode and give that one and listen because that one was
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