What is going on? Hey, hey, welcome to the Brown Girl self-care podcast. My name is

Brem Mitchell. I'm the host of the show as well as the founder of Brown Girl

self-care, the safe space for black women that are doing the work, the

intentional work of healing. If this is your first time checking me out, hey,

sis, I'm so glad that you're here. And if you've been rolling with me for a while,

I'm just like, I'm ecstatic that you just are rolling with me like that, all

right? So I'm going to try to make this episode short, but y'all know how I'll

be talking. So what you want to do is go ahead and get your teeth, get your

coffee, light a candle, settle in, get your journal, maybe there'll be

something here that you want to take a note on or might cause you a little bit

of reflection as I talk today. So I want to talk about how self-care is

not a quote unquote magic pill, okay? But before I do that, before I do that,

two things. So the first thing is I always try to come here and let you know what

type of self-care I did the week prior. And I'm gonna tell you two things, okay? But

I'm already laughing because this is hilarious. The first thing's not hilarious.

The first thing is when actually they both, these are both wonderful things, okay?

These are both wonderful things, but I just got to work myself up talking about

this second thing. It's not anything bad, probably. So the first thing that I did

for self-care in the last few weeks is I'm pretty sure I had talked about this

before as far as something that I wanted but didn't have. And that is a weighted

blanket. Yeah, your girl got a weighted blanket. Finally, I've had it now for gosh, it's been

over a week. I want to say maybe a week and a half, two weeks ago, I got it somewhere

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