Opt Into Stillness
Black Girl Burnout
Kelley Bonner
4.7 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Black Girl Burnout Podcast, Kelley explores the importance of opting out of distraction and embracing stillness as a form of self-care. She discusses how the modern world bombards us with endless notifications and overstimulation, leading to exhaustion and a diminished ability to focus. Kelley shares insights on why we struggle with stillness, including our addiction to stimulation, fear of missing out (FOMO), discomfort with silence, and the societal conditioning to be overly productive. More, more, and still more is within your reach in 2025. 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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Blackwell Burnout podcast. |
| 0:12.3 | Kelly here. |
| 0:13.2 | And today I want to talk about how to opt out of distraction and opt into stillness. |
| 0:19.6 | I want to talk about how overstimulation keeps us exhausted and why stillness is a form of self-care. |
| 0:27.3 | Because here's the truth. |
| 0:28.5 | From the moment we wake up, we are bombarded with the notifications, emails, news, social media, endless scrolling. |
| 0:40.2 | Our brains never get a break. |
| 0:44.4 | And yet we start to wonder why we're always drained? |
| 0:47.3 | Tell me there isn't a connection here. |
| 0:53.7 | I am old enough to remember when Internet wasn't really a thing. |
| 0:58.8 | When the day started quietly and it ended quietly, |
| 1:01.5 | when even though we had cell phones, |
| 1:03.9 | you would wait till after nine to call someone because you couldn't afford to pay for that text |
| 1:07.4 | or communication before then. |
| 1:10.7 | The truth is 20, 30 years ago, the world was stiller. |
| 1:18.4 | And while the Internet is amazing, I know it has changed my life in a million and one ways |
| 1:25.0 | for the better. |
| 1:26.1 | One of the things we have lost in that is the ability |
| 1:29.5 | to recognize stillness and to practice it. |
| 1:34.6 | Today's episode is going to be all about how to drown out the noise and opt into stillness |
| 1:42.9 | instead. |
| 1:48.5 | But before we can get into how to do that, we have to talk about why we struggle with stillness, get to really the root of the problem. |
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