Opt Into Imagination
Black Girl Burnout
Kelley Bonner
4.7 • 762 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout Podcast. In this episode, Kelley discusses the importance of Opting Into Imagination. When we have a healthy imagination, we grant ourselves access to hope. Part of the healing process for intergenerational and general trauma involves allowing yourself to imagine a life filled with joy and abundance. This episode is for you if you are ready to learn how to allow yourself to command more freedom in your life through imagination. 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 opt into imagination. As I'm recording this, there's a lot going on in the world. And it doesn't feel like |
| 0:23.4 | it's the time to be talking about imagination. And yet, I want to basically ask you and beg you to |
| 0:36.4 | when all else fails, return to the softness and return to the things |
| 0:43.3 | that make you dream up of a future that doesn't exist. Because the first step in achieving |
| 0:51.5 | change is imagining it. |
| 1:01.5 | Imagination really holds a deep and dear place in our lives. It's essential. |
| 1:08.8 | You hear me talk all the time about daydreaming, fantasizing in a healthy way. |
| 1:14.9 | And imagination is a critical part of that. There is nothing that has been done worth doing that wasn't imagined first. You think about the inventions that make |
| 1:20.6 | our lives possible are out of someone's imagination. You think about all the great activists and change makers, the good |
| 1:30.9 | troublemakers in the world. And it's all based on imagination, them seeing a better world and |
| 1:39.3 | fighting for that world. Imagination and hope sit right next to each other. |
| 1:47.7 | You can't imagine better if you don't have hope that it could be better. |
| 1:54.3 | And so as black women, we are so, so very powerful. |
| 2:08.9 | We are change makers. We are comforters. We are community builders. We are life changers. We are life creators in so many ways. But what needs to run underneath all of that is a healthy imagination. |
| 2:23.5 | Because in that healthy imagination, we have access to hope, which I said, imagination and hope |
| 2:30.0 | sit next to each other. But it's also where we get access to joy. |
| 2:43.8 | And there can be times where we might feel too heavy, too distraught. |
| 2:48.0 | Something may be going wrong in our lives, something may be going wrong in the world. |
| 2:52.4 | Something may be going wrong in the culture. There may be some issue or some moment that you're fighting through. Maybe it's your job. Maybe it's a relationship. |
| 3:00.8 | Maybe it's your family. Maybe it's just your own internal struggles with depression or anxiety |
| 3:06.2 | or trauma and the fallout of that, the |
| 3:09.7 | symptoms that may bring into your life. There is no shortage of tough moments, symptoms, |
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