Dear Black Women: Life Won't Start "Lifing" Until You Do

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Dear Black women, especially those of us over 40 years old, now is your time (and mine) to get "unstuck." Let's stop waiting around for something magical to happen in order for us to do WHATEVER it is we want to do in this season.

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0:00.0	I want to talk specifically to my fellow Gen Xers, boomers, et cetera, the women of a certain age, if you will, about some things.
0:13.6	And this is for you, especially if you are feeling like you are stuck in life.
0:20.1	Like you feel like you're just waiting for life to happen to you.
0:24.6	Or you're like you're waiting for something to happen so that then you can kind of like
0:30.3	lock in or then you can move forward or you can do the things that you feel like you were
0:34.6	put here to do. I have been in that place for a very long time.
0:40.0	You can even go back and see. I have a video here that I did maybe like a year ago or six
0:48.6	months to 12 months ago that said, you know, I'm finally starting with videos for brown girl self-care, et cetera, et cetera.
0:55.3	And then I just kind of like fell off. And by the way, let me back up for a second.
0:59.1	I always assume that people know who the hell I am.
1:01.8	My name is Bree, and I'm the founder of brown girl self-care. I'm a podcaster.
1:07.0	I talk about self-care for black women who are looking to honor their humanity, and especially as we exist in a problematic system or society where black women are not honored, our humanity is not honored, our value, our worth who we are, is not appreciated or respected.
1:27.0	So if that's your jam,
1:28.7	just talking about self-care and blooming and living your best life, living well, you know,
1:37.2	as we navigate these systems and everything, like that's what I talk about here. And I want to
1:44.1	talk today about how a lot of times we end up feeling stuck, or how about
1:47.9	this? I felt stuck for a very long time. And if you see yourself in me and I spare you wasting
1:55.2	any more time, then my work here today is done. So I was at the dog park earlier this morning and I took my journal.
2:04.4	Here's the journal that I am currently using. I took my journal and I was just thinking about,
2:10.9	I've been thinking about over the last few days how I want to live my life, who I want to be,
2:17.2	what type of life I want to have,
2:19.6	you know, how my next five years, 10 years can look like now that I'm in my 50s.
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