Opt-Into Healing

Black Girl Burnout

Kelley Bonner

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 762 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout Podcast with Kelley. Today we are going to talk about opting into healing. This episode concludes this week’s “Family Meeting” three-part series. We are going to focus on healing strategies that can be replicated with consistency. Healing can be painful to embrace. But, this time, you are not alone. I am right here with you along this journey. We are a community dedicated to opting out of struggle on every level. And that includes any struggles that you may be experiencing as you work to align with a healing process that works for you. This week we have opted out of celebrating trauma, opted into loving accountability, and today family, it’s time to heal. Let’s talk about it. Our Sponsors: * Check out Super.com and use my code super.com/credit for a great deal: https://super.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.
0:13.9	Kelly here.
0:15.1	And today we're going to talk about part three in our series about how not to celebrate trauma.
0:21.6	Just to do a quick recap, we started the week talking about how we have to have a family
0:27.9	meeting.
0:28.4	We have to create a safe space to talk about the ways in which we as a culture and
0:32.8	communally celebrate trauma and some painful interactions that we deal with day to day.
0:41.7	And we discussed how people who experience unspeakable horrors often make meaning of those bad events
0:51.6	by experiencing denial or minimizing or celebrating the bad thing that has
0:58.0	happened to them. And from a community perspective, we talked about how that impacts us as a
1:04.0	black community. And then we talked about two ways to opt out of celebrating trauma. And that was
1:10.4	opt into loving accountability.
1:12.9	We had a difficult conversation about disappointment and disrespect as black women
1:19.4	and who disrespects us and how that impacts us. And we had a conversation about how to overcome and hold people
1:30.5	accountable for the wrongs we experience or feel. And the last way we said to hold people
1:38.9	lovingly accountable was to discuss and prioritize reparation or repair.
1:46.8	And the way to hold people lovingly accountable is to expect some kind of repair or to pursue
1:53.1	a reparation.
1:54.7	And the only way to do that is by opting into healing, which is today's final of the series.
1:59.7	We're going to talk about how to opt into healing, which is today's final of the series. We're going to talk about how to opt into
2:02.2	healing. And there's a couple ways to do this that I want to focus on today. And that is,
2:10.6	one is a throwback to an episode that we've had just a few weeks ago called opting into softness,
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