If Mother's Day Left You Feeling Heavy

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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

If you’re feeling heavy the day after Mother’s Day, this episode is for you. Whether the day brought up grief, frustration, numbness, or just left you feeling emotionally off, you are not alone. In this gentle episode, I’m holding space for the Black women who are expected to “bounce back” on Monday when their hearts are still tender. We’re talking about softening into the week, honoring your truth, and giving yourself permission to move slow. You’ll also hear a series of affirmations to carry with you as you reclaim your energy, one breath at a time.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, you are listening to the Brown Girl Self Care podcast. My name is Bree, 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. Hey, girl, let's go ahead and get into today's episode because we are coming off of a
0:25.3	major, major holiday, which is Mother's Day.
0:31.4	Sounds simple enough, right?
0:33.1	Mother's Day sounds like a beautiful, gentle, loving holiday. At least that's what the commercials always show us, right? But, you know, today's episode is for the ones who are feeling a little heavy right now. It was something that I was thinking about, you know, that Mother's Day is on a Sunday. It's the second
0:58.4	Sunday of May, obviously, for many countries, not just the U.S., but, you know, it's on a Sunday,
1:09.6	and then we go back into work or we go back into our routines
1:16.5	literally that very next day, Monday.
1:21.4	And, you know, it's just like we go back to business as usual.
1:37.5	But for some of us, a lot of us, for one reason or another, it's not internally business as usual. You know, a lot of us we've been conditioned to stuff our emotions down, stuff our feelings down, stuff our grief down.
1:48.9	And so we do. Maybe not intentionally a lot of times, but we do because, you know, rents do,
1:56.1	baby. We got rent to pay. We have children to tend to and care for. We have responsibilities. People are
2:02.2	counting on us. So we just go back into busy mode or work mode, but we haven't necessarily
2:11.1	processed what came up for us on that, like this kind of holiday, which isn't always gentle and loving and
2:22.0	compassionate and tender and sweet, like the commercials say. You know, so again, today's episode
2:30.7	is for the ones, like those of us who are feeling, you know, you're feeling a little heavy right now.
2:36.3	Maybe yesterday or Mother's Day brought up some stuff for you, some grief, some sadness, a sense of loss, possibly anger, or resentment.
2:49.2	Or you're just kind of like floating out there in this really weird
2:53.2	emotional space that you can't quite put your finger on.
3:01.1	You're just like, I know I feel off or I feel weird, but I can't necessarily, like right now, I don't have the capacity
3:09.3	to name what it is that I'm feeling or, you know, what's going on internally. And that's
3:17.1	okay. All of it is valid. All of it is valid. And I also want to say, hey, if you did happen to have, by the way, a beautiful
3:26.4	Mother's Day full of love and laughter and joy and bonding and sweetness and, you know,
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