Opt Into Healthy Friendships
Black Girl Burnout
Kelley Bonner
4.7 • 762 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout Podcast. In this episode, Kelley discusses the importance of Opting Into Healthy Friendships. One of the most important relationships that we create in our lives is Friendship. It gives us a feeling of intimacy and support. This episode is for you if you struggle with vulnerability or feeling as though you can’t be your true authentic self around other people. More, more, and still more is within your reach in 2023. Tune in today and prepare yourself to engage in realistic strategies that can help you with opting into a life filled with abundance and joy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. Kelly here. And today I want to talk about how to build and maintain healthy friendships. |
| 0:17.8 | Earlier in the week, we talked about creating intimacy. |
| 0:26.1 | And I'm going to talk more about that going forward because I think that's a topic that we shy away from, that we need to create more content into the world about. |
| 0:32.4 | But part of intimacy is a closeness, is a familiarity. |
| 0:37.4 | It is finding someone that you can feel safe and |
| 0:41.2 | soft with is how I define it. And that requires that we create relationships that are healthy for us. |
| 0:49.6 | And one of the most important relationships that we can create that can give us a feeling of intimacy in our |
| 0:55.2 | lives is in our friendships. In that episode, if you haven't checked it out, please go listen to that |
| 1:01.1 | episode. But in the episode about intimacy, I talk about the fact that for some folks, when they're |
| 1:06.0 | doing a kind of inventory about who in their lives could they be vulnerable with, could they |
| 1:10.1 | have that closeness with. I said some of you may be struggling to find that. I know there was a point |
| 1:17.2 | in my life where it was really hard to have relationships where intimacy was a part of it, |
| 1:23.9 | or the feeling of closeness was a part of it. |
| 1:29.6 | And part of that was because of my own past trauma, my own difficulties in being vulnerable. |
| 1:37.0 | I mean, they're not necessarily all past. |
| 1:39.3 | They're still very present. |
| 1:40.9 | It's very hard for me to be vulnerable around people. |
| 1:43.3 | It's very hard for me to be vulnerable around people. It's very hard for me to get close |
| 1:46.6 | to folks. And maybe you feel the same way or have felt the same way and have not always had a lot |
| 1:53.6 | of people in your life around. And to that, I will say, one, it's always going to be quality |
| 2:00.3 | over quantity. So it's not having 10 friends. |
| 2:03.9 | It might just be having one friend that you feel that with. So it's important to understand that. |
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