Opt Into Rewriting Your Narrative
Black Girl Burnout
Kelley Bonner
4.7 • 762 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Black Girl Burnout podcast, host Kelley Bonner discusses the importance of reflecting on the stories we tell ourselves as we close out 2024 and prepare for 2025. She emphasizes the need to release narratives that weigh us down and offers practical steps for rewriting our personal narratives to create space for growth and healing. Kelley shares her own experiences of redefining self-identity, embracing softness, and challenging societal expectations, particularly focusing on aging, professionalism, and the role of black women. More, more, and still more is within your reach in 2024. 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 Al Burnout podcast, Kelly here. And today I want to talk about what is the story you want to tell yourself as you close out 2024 and what narratives are you rewriting for 2025? |
| 0:14.3 | So as we get ready for a new year, no matter when you're listening to this or you're starting a new month, there was always opportunity for us to |
| 0:20.9 | pause and think about what is the story that is being told about myself that I'm participating in, |
| 0:26.9 | what is the story I want to rewrite? And along with our theme for December, which is reflect and |
| 0:33.6 | release and release and reflect, what do I want to release that weighs me down? And I'm here to |
| 0:40.0 | tell you that a lot of those things may be the stories and the narratives that you are opting |
| 0:47.3 | into, that you shouldn't be, that you are passively allowing to be created about you. And some of those instances are stories that we are |
| 0:57.1 | creating ourselves. And so today's episode is all about how to opt into rewriting your narrative |
| 1:04.6 | and feeling empowered while you do it. And that's what I want to talk about. I don't want you |
| 1:10.2 | to be stuck crossing into a new year, |
| 1:12.1 | a new month, a new day that stops today. And part of that is about rewriting narratives to create |
| 1:18.8 | space for growth and healing. I know for me, I'm constantly rewriting the narrative about myself, |
| 1:24.6 | about my life. And I keep rewriting narratives. I have learned to embrace softness |
| 1:30.9 | versus hardness. I've developed, as I told you, my own affirmation for all of next year, |
| 1:37.2 | probably for the rest of my life, that when things get hard, I become soft. That's a narrative I |
| 1:42.9 | had to rewrite. I really felt like pushing being a warrior. |
| 1:48.0 | My name, Kelly, is Gaelic and it can mean in some connotations, particularly the way I spell it, |
| 1:53.8 | female warrior. And I was really bought into that as a part of my identity, that I'm a fighter. |
| 1:59.4 | And I am a fighter, but this belief that I have |
| 2:03.0 | to be harsh while advocating, I would say maybe now instead of saying I'm a fighter, I'm an advocate, |
| 2:09.2 | but that means I have to be harsh or that I have to always have my guard up, my armor ready, |
| 2:15.6 | waiting to come at somebody. that narrative just isn't attractive |
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