Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. Kelly here. And today we are going to talk about opting into love. Yes, actually this whole week is going to be dedicated to the concept of love,

to the feeling of love. And I want to be clear off the top. I'm not connecting this in any way

because this is February and everyone's thinking about Valentine's Day. I'm opting out of the propaganda of a

Valentine's Day and the propaganda around what it means and what it represents. If you love it,

if you like it, I love it. But really, I'm talking about love this week because it is on everyone's

mind because of all the commercialism around

a specific holiday. And yet, love is something that should be celebrated and cherished

and centered every day, all the days of our life. And so this series is going to go really deep into love itself.

We're going to cover a lot this week. We're going to cover first today. We're going to talk about

the link between love and abundance and love and how that fills into the philosophy of opting out a struggle.

On Wednesday, we're going to talk about hopeful love, abundant love, that love and hope

are linked.

And I really want this week to feel good to you, to feel like it is encouraging you and inspiring you to have more love in your life.

And we're going to close out the week on Friday with a podcast entitled Return to Love.

It's going to be very similar to the episode I had about returning to softness.

And that is about how to find love

when perhaps you're dealing with heartbreak or how to find and return to love when you

might be dealing with insecurity or feeling a bit lost, preparing yourself for partnership

even, how to keep love in your life.

And if you feel like you've lost it, because the world can be a tough place, how do you return to it?

I'm really excited about these episodes. I don't know if you could tell. I love love. I really do.

I have said more than once, I think, in this podcast that I am a huge

...