Moving, Starting Over and Letting Go of 95% Of All My Stuff Because I Can't Afford To Take It With Me

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 46 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.

In this episode of the Brown Girl Self-Care podcast, I’m sharing an intimate life update as I prepare to move from California to Arkansas. I’m opening up about the emotional and practical challenges I’ve faced along the way, including letting go of 95% of my possessions due to financial constraints.

I’ll share how deeply rooted scarcity and self-worth struggles have shaped my life and why this move represents more than just a physical transition—it’s a journey of healing, grief, and reclaiming intentionality.

I’ll also introduce my upcoming collaboration with Yolanda, founder of Parenting Decolonized, as we work together to create a sustainable living community for single Black mothers and their children. This episode is about resilience, community, and embracing change, even when it feels hard.

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

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0:58.7	Hey, hey, you are listening to the Brown Girl Self Care podcast. My name is Bree, and I'm the host of
1:03.6	the show, as well as the founder of Brown Girl Self Care. Brown Girl Self Care is a platform
1:08.3	and space of intentional healing, joy, and rest and liberation for black women.
1:14.3	Today's going to be a quick little episode, y'all, because I wanted to give you an update on where I have been.
1:23.7	So this is kind of like a catch-you-up episode.
1:27.9	Okay. So if you are not in the catch-you-up episode. Okay?
1:28.7	So if you are not in the mood to hear all the stories and the updates,
1:34.7	I'm just giving you warning in advance because y'all know I love to talk.
1:37.5	I'm going to give you information or just the tea, I guess,
1:41.6	on where I've been, what I've been doing,
1:50.0	and why I had to take a long pause from Brown Girl self-care for the podcast.
1:53.9	So you were getting these replay episodes for the last couple of months.
1:56.1	So let's go ahead and jump right on into it.
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