Hey, hey, what's going on? You are listening to the Brown Girl Self Care podcast. My name is Bree. I'm the host of the show as well as the founder of Brown Girl Self Care. Brown Girl Self Care is a platform and space of intentional healing, joy, rest, and abundance for black women. Of course, Callie has to be in the background there, scratching and making noise literally

as soon as I hit record, but we're going to keep it pushing, y'all.

I want to talk about today boundaries.

I'm going to give you five simpleish boundaries that you can start implementing into your daily habits, routine,

flow, literally today.

I have been working one-on-one with women, black women, obviously, and the common theme

that comes up, or at least one of the main ones, is that you don't know how to start

implementing boundaries that will serve as a form of protection for you, for your spirit,

for your energy, for your bandwidth. You know, black women, we have this superwoman contract that we were

obliged to, that we never signed up for. And a part of that contract says that we can never say no.

We have to people please. We have to grind ourselves into the dust. We have to be overgivers,

and we have to be perfect and all these things right and so when I talk to these

women and we work one-on-one it's like finding ways to start this process of honoring your

humanity by way of setting boundaries, starting to set boundaries because,

and I'm speaking from personal experience, you don't want to get to the point, and you may

already be here, but again, from my personal experience, you don't want to get to the point

where you are literally a doormat and everyone's walking over you.

Everyone's telling you how you should be, what you should do, when you should do it, how

you should do it, why you should do it, you know.

And I've lived that part of my life.

I lived a chunk, a big chunk of my life.

That was it for many, many years, decades, in fact.

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