Hey, hey, what's going on? You are listening to the Brown Girl Self Care podcast. My name is

Free and 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.

In today's episode, I am sharing a snippet of a YouTube live video that I did

recently. In the title of the video is how I am a quote unquote failure. I am basically

failing at life right now. And I say that because when I think of my life, things I have done, how I am living it intentionally now, these things that I am doing where I'm choosing to live in a more simpler way, these are not, I'm not doing things in accordance to how the system was set up. And the system was not intended

for us anyway. We know this. The system was not intended for black people and definitely not for

black women. So when I say the word failure, I'm putting that in air quotes. I want to make

sure that I mention that, okay? Just to be clear, all right?

But a lot of us or some of us, many of us, not me, but I know a lot of us, at one time,

one time or another, we pursued the American dream only to find out that it's a, it's not even

real. The American dream literally literally equals if nothing else american debt

american keeping up with the joneses american never resting american always striving

if that's the dream you know i don't want it it's not for. So that's what I'm sharing in this episode. And also,

I am quickly in case you missed it, sharing again, my being framework, B-E-I-N-G. So I go into that as well.

And I would invite you to consider practicing some of that as well. If you are struggling with your self-care. You don't

know where to start. You don't know what to do and all that. Take some time after you listen to

this episode. Come up with a starter ritual plan, something simple. You can pick and choose

from the being pillars, whatever

makes sense for you. But it's just a really good way to tap into certain things each day that

are going to nurture you, help you to feel more joyful, more at peace, more just more yourself.

Okay? So I'm going to go ahead and end this here. After my voice, you're going to hear me jump right into the YouTube live. And here we go.

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