Opt Into Letting Life Get Sweeter
Black Girl Burnout
Kelley Bonner
4.7 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this uplifting and transformative episode of Black Girl Burnout, Kelley explores the power of opting into joy and allowing life to get sweeter with time. Healing isn’t about grand gestures or one-time breakthroughs—it’s about the small, daily choices that shape a life of peace and ease. Through personal reflections and powerful metaphors, Kelley unpacks the importance of emotional conditioning and the power of consistent, intentional self-care.
💡 Today You’ll Learn:
- Why healing is a daily practice, not a one-time event
- How emotional conditioning can create lasting joy and ease
- The importance of small, intentional choices in building a fulfilling life
- Practical ways to integrate rest, joy, and self-affirmation into your routine
This episode is an invitation to shift your mindset, embrace ease, and choose practices that make life sweeter. It’s time to move beyond survival and into a space where peace becomes second nature.
✨ Episode Highlights:
- 01:06 The myth of overnight transformation
- 02:44 The power of emotional conditioning and daily reps
- 05:18 Personal reflections on healing and growth
- 09:09 Practical ways to choose joy and ease daily
- 15:07 Celebrating your progress and embracing a sweeter life
Tune in and take a step towards making joy, rest, and ease - your birthright. Let your life be sweet—and let it get sweeter with time.
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ATTN: BGB Community In Dorchester (Boston Area) Massachusetts, we are happy to highlight an amazing upcoming play in your area. We need your help to support this event.
Note From Aline Lopes:
My name is Aline and I am a theatre company owner from Boston. Our productions are focused on stereotypes and taboos surrounding mental health that exist in black and brown communities.
About The Play:
The play's name is "The Many Faces Of The Strong Black Woman: The Dark Days", and we will be performing at the Strand Theater in Dorchester, MA April 4th and 5th, 2025.
The play is a part of a series of plays that displays different stories of black women maneuvering through the stressors of life all while trying to live up to the ideals held by the idea of "the strong black woman". The plays are meant to highlight the interconnectivity that exists between our biology and our race. The play displays some of the ways these factors impact us as black women living in the US. This particular play showcases what happens when all the members of a sisterhood are simultaneously struggling to manage their individual mental health status. The play focuses on the ways we interact with our inner circle and the world beyond when our mental health is suffering.
This production displays some of the dark ways we impact ourselves and those close to us when our mental health is deteriorating. The story is told through dialogue, dancing, singing and rapping. The production collaborates with local artists and works hard to use as much original local music as possible.
Where:
Strand Theater
543 Columbia Rd
Dorchester,, MA 02125
When:
Friday April 4, 2025
Saturday April 5, 2025
Attire:
Evening / Cocktail Attire
Time:
The play begins at 7pm - 8:30 (20 minute intermission). Afterwards there is a meet and greet with the cast. Coffee and desserts are served during this time.
Art:
We will also be displaying paintings and other visual arts pieces, from college and high school students in the gallery.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here. |
| 0:12.8 | And today I want to talk about how to let things get sweeter with time. |
| 0:19.0 | We've spent this week kind of building upon the last three weeks with |
| 0:23.9 | Rezma Menachim where he talked about the need for black women to rest, how that really is a |
| 0:29.7 | revolutionary calling, the importance of us taking the time to work on ourselves. And as it's the end of the week, I thought I wanted to |
| 0:41.1 | close out with talking about the sweetness on the other side of the work. We often focus on |
| 0:48.4 | that things require time and effort and can be challenging and difficult and work is work and people don't always |
| 0:56.0 | feel great about that. And that's fair. I know it's fair. And in the last episode I talked about |
| 1:03.4 | how you can't perform your way into healing, you can't make it a performance, but that when you |
| 1:09.2 | pause and you let go of the desire to constantly be in a |
| 1:15.3 | cycle avoidance, when you just take a deep breath and listen to the intuition, to what your |
| 1:22.3 | body's trying to tell you, to that little voice that is telling you to make changes. |
| 1:26.8 | When you do your reps, on the other side of that is sweetness. On the changes when you do your reps. On the other side of |
| 1:29.6 | that is sweetness. On the other side of that is joy. And so I want us to really welcome that energy in. |
| 1:38.0 | I want us to be in an energy of opt in to letting life be sweet and understand that it gets sweeter with time and what it can |
| 1:47.4 | look like when you actually do a million reps. Now, if you recall, Resma told the story about |
| 1:53.9 | Steph Curry, who again, bear with me, I'm not super a sportsperson, but I followed the metaphor, |
| 2:00.2 | and I know who Steph Curry is, so I feel like I'm winning. |
| 2:02.7 | But he is the best three-point shooter in the NBA and possibly in the history is what it sounds like. |
| 2:09.4 | And he talked about Steph Curry's process, how he got to this place where he is making the most three-pointer shots in the NBA, |
| 2:19.8 | and at least in the NBA currently and the history, |
| 2:23.2 | he said that what he would do is he would go out and he would shoot a certain number of baskets, |
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