Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout Podcast.

Today I want to ask you a question.

How do you feel about your body?

As women, so much of what we do is scrutinized.

And as black women, so much of our history is tied up to into ownership of bodies.

And the fact, if you're an American black woman, you didn't even own your body.

So today I want to talk about how to deal with

judgmental feelings about your body and how to opt out of being harsh when it comes to your body

and body image and how to opt into really loving yourself and loving the vessel you're in,

loving your body. We're going to talk about five ways to do that,

how to bring positivity about your self-image and to kind of cherish and engage in self-care for

the body, how to do that in a meaningful way. And we're going to talk about where that comes from,

where shame about body comes from,

particularly for black women.

The study show that actually for most of us, we do okay with our body image, that many black

women, particularly many black adolescents, tend to have more positive body image than their white counterparts.

However, we have cultural norms that tell us what the ideal black body is.

We have internal cultural norms that tell us that.

And then we have the outside world that values one

kind of black beauty over another. And it can be hard. There's no end to talking about

colorism and its impact on those who are dark skin versus light skin, the pain that comes

with really being in either one of those categories,

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