Opt-Out of Bitterness

Black Girl Burnout

Kelley Bonner

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Black Girl Burn Out Podcast with Kelley. Today I want to talk to you about opting out of bitterness. Pain and repeated injury are two of the main forms that bitterness can present in your life. We are going to focus on the kind of bitterness that results from not being able to address the ways that our societal systems wrong and injure us. When you feel as though your voice is not being heard, mounting hurt can harden your heart. The good news is that bitterness can be released, find out how today. Let’s talk about it. Our Sponsors: * Check out Super.com and use my code super.com/credit for a great deal: https://super.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. Kelly here. Today's episode is all about overcoming
0:16.0	bitterness. And I'm going to be really specific about how I talk about bitterness because this is a
0:21.6	topic I want to return to over and over again. There are certain types of bitterness.
0:26.8	Bitterness comes from pain and repeated injury. What happens when we don't address that?
0:33.8	And we can develop bitterness over many things. We can become bitter about our familiar situation. We may
0:42.0	have not been raised the way we deserved, given the love we deserved. We can become bitter in
0:47.6	relationships that when relationships chronically don't work out, it burdens our spirit. And it has a lasting hurt that when we don't work out. It burdens our spirit and it has a lasting hurt that when we don't treat it
0:58.9	with mindfulness and real soul work and self-care, it can grow and fester into bitterness.
1:08.0	Today, though, we're going to talk about how do we deal with cultural wrongs, right?
1:13.6	We will talk about familial wrongs when your family wrongs you, when relationships don't turn out the way you want,
1:19.1	and you've been wronged many a times.
1:20.8	But today I want to focus on what happens when the culture and when our systems wrong us and injure us. I think it's an important
1:34.2	discussion to have, even though it may be a delicate one to get into, is because I first and
1:40.7	foremost am always going to be about self-care. I'm always going to be about pushing for you
1:48.5	to inherit that birthright, that true inheritance of being a black woman, which is joy and beauty
1:57.5	and love and community. And nothing will take away those things from you quicker than
2:03.1	bitterness. And I want to, when we enter this discussion today, I also want to affirm that I'm
2:08.9	not talking about the myths. We reject the myths of the angry black woman and the bitter black
2:15.3	woman. I am not talking about that. We don't even
2:18.8	give that energy or attention or air. We know that is a projected racist stereotype on black
2:26.6	women. We're not talking about that. I'm talking about what happens when you can't appropriately
2:33.8	get rid of the frustration, the justifiable anger
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