Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. Kelly here. And today I want to talk about how to opt into self-care. This episode is for you. If you have been looking

for a way to build a self-care plan that's actually going to be impactful and last,

if you've been hearing about the word self-care and been trying to pursue it for quite some

time and yet are still confused as to actually

what it is. That's what we're going to be talking about today. We're going to define self-care.

We're going to talk about the obstacles and myths and barriers that keep people from actually

establishing self-care. And then we're going to talk about how to set up a plan. The goal is by the

end of this episode

that you can begin building your self-care plan immediately, and it will be both impactful

and easy to do. As black women, self-care is a lot of times at the bottom of the list. And really, when I think about self-care,

I think about it as an extension of self-love, a reflection of how we feel about ourselves

and how we feel about the world in general. And self-care is a great way to take care of ourselves

and to reject the historical and cultural

myths that I'm always talking about, that we're always know or around us, that teach us that

black women need to be martyrs. They need to give of themselves to depletion until there's

nothing left.

We are rejecting that.

We are opting out of struggle and opting out of being exhausted and over-extended

and opting into self-love practices and doing that via self-care.

When I think about self-care, I think about a good friend of mine named

Farah Harris. She works a lot in this space, and she defines self-care as the daily

intentional act of creating a life you don't want to run away from. And really, that's what it's all

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