I'm tired of laboring without purpose so the only choice is to believe in myself

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Brown Girl Self-Care is where Black women reclaim our wholeness and power in a world that demands our labor but denies our humanity. Here, the care of ourselves—and the care for each other—become sacred acts of justice, powerful ways of honoring our humanity in a world that doesn’t.

2025 is a pivotal year for me and for many other Black women who are sick of these systems and sick of laboring at jobs that deplete and exhaust us. Black women deal with societal systems every day that are not designed for us to thrive and I've come to realize that I have to break free from fear, perfectionism and imposter syndrome so that I can reject traditional 9-5 labor and instead do things that tap into my purpose and joy. Sound like you too? Press play!

Let’s take this journey together—we are worthy of this care.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's going on? You're listening to the Brown Girl Self Care podcast. My name is Bree.
0:07.6	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.
0:18.1	I'm just going to jump right on into this episode. I mentioned in the podcast before,
0:23.2	like 2025 is my year. I feel like 2025 is going to be the year or is the year. Not going to be.
0:29.6	2025 is the year for many black women. For many of us, 2025 is the year, especially because of what
0:36.9	is going on in office right now. And I don't know
0:41.1	about you. I mean, I feel like I do because I feel like I, you know, we'd be talking. But as
0:46.6	for me and me, I'm over it. I'm over these systems. I am over bending over backwards, trying to survive in these
0:57.0	systems that were not built for us. I had mentioned before that 2025 is my year where I am showing up.
1:03.7	I'm not shrinking anymore. I'm stepping forward. All those, all those things. I've said,
1:08.6	and I've said this before, but I'm really seeing it with my chest
1:11.0	this year. One thing that I had mentioned, I think it was in the last podcast episode,
1:17.0	don't quote me on it, but at least in the last few podcast episodes, for sure, I mentioned
1:23.7	that in sharing my story of kind of like how I got to this point with like my
1:30.8	dead and just my journey to liberation and freedom and living a life that I want to live
1:39.0	and be happy with, okay, I said that I just, I just do not feel, I don't, I don't want to work.
1:48.5	And I've said that for a very long time.
1:50.2	I don't want to work a nine to five.
1:52.1	I don't want to work in somebody's office.
1:54.1	I don't want to work in a corporate environment.
1:56.1	I don't want to have to get dressed up and, and, and, and, and, and, and,
2:00.4	pretty-five myself and code switch and uh fix my face and
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