Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here. And today we are going to talk about the art of pivoting gently and without struggle.

Now on Monday's episode, I talked all about how important it is to

embrace the pivot and inventory your life and look at ways that you can consider maybe making a

change. Maybe it's time to change directions, whether radically or even in small ways. And if you might have felt overwhelmed

or even energized by that call to action and by that episode, I want to talk today about how to do

it gently. There are a lot of times in our lives where people radically pivot and it is the

result of trauma, of being fed up,

of just hitting your breaking point. I know, for example, when I stopped working in the prison

system, it was a pivot, but it was one that was done out of struggle, out of frustration,

out of brokenness. I was just beyond exhausted and way past

my breaking point. So when I pivoted, it wasn't really gentle and it probably looked a lot more

like an implosion than a pivot. I do not want that for you. And so I want this episode to be about how to do that

gently. And I will, as always, use myself as an example, as this is a season of my life. Really,

for 24 has been a year of pivoting as gently as possible. And I want you to know that it's possible for you to make the changes you want to make

without the overwhelm.

There may be areas of your life that you feel overwhelmed by just in general,

or you feel like I need to make a change.

You feel this urgency around making a change.

And I'm not here to tell you not to feel urgent or not to feel like you need to make those

decisions and pivots in your life.

But I'm here to encourage you to remember that when things get hard for us, we return to

softness.

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