Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. Kelly here.

And today I want to talk about the importance of rest.

Here's our reality. The world is on fire right now, literally and

emotionally and spiritually in all the different ways. And I see you. I see you trying to fight

every battle, I fix every broken thing and carry it all on your back.

But I need you to hear me when I say, you cannot heal if you do not rest.

You cannot build the life you want from a place of exhaustion.

Rest is not a weakness, rest is not a luxury. It's survival.

And I know as I say this, and I make this the theme of February, that you're thinking,

how, when, have you seen what's going on if you're in the United States and the federal

government? Have you seen what's going on across the world, the fires, the genocide, the cruelty, the, it seems like it never ends.

And that's just a globally.

Now let's make it local that you may have unreasonable and insane

demands put on you by a supervisor, by a partner that's not pulling their weight, by children

who have special needs or just needs in general, that were also being called to boycott

different organizations, people, and institutions. The demands and the call to

do more has never been more in our face and never more tested our default response, which I think is

black women, which is to then get up and do more.

And I know I put together a program in January. I put that program together in July of last year,

y'all. And I was like, New Year healed me. We're going to give a bunch of episodes on all the

things that you need to be the best version of yourself and you can keep

going back to those episodes over and over again. That was the goal and I'm glad we did it,

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