Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly here.

And today I want to talk about how to opt into more connection in your life.

I don't know if you're like me.

Probably not. I am a weird mixture of

being a little bit extroverted, but also being highly introverted at times. And as a result,

connection is something that I work to cultivate with others. It's something I have to be conscious of because

if I'm left to my own devices and to my own self, I'll just be in a corner reading or listening to

music or in my own head imagining all kinds of things. I'm someone who works, has to work a little harder to get connection

in my life. But it is something that's incredibly vital. And I think that's why I moved to talk about it.

It's something this podcast is as much a reminder and a bunch of exercises for myself as it is for all

of you listening. And so today I want to talk about regardless of whether you

are the biggest extrovert on the planet or the biggest introvert on the planet, how to

center connection in your life. And it's not just going to be about connecting with others.

It's going to be about connecting with yourself too. For me, connecting with myself is the easy

part. Connecting with others takes a little more work,

but I want to talk about both, and both are equally important. Being connected to yourself,

to other folks, to some kind of higher power or higher source is good for our health.

That's just like the Cliff Notes version.

But there's a whole bunch of neuroscience that tells us what happens when we hit that space

where we feel connected, what that does for our bodies.

But beyond that, this is a podcast about us, about black women.

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