Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly here.

And today I am calling a town hall, a community family meeting.

Because today we're going to talk about opting out of celebrating trauma.

Now, hear me out.

Before we begin today, I want you to know a couple of things.

One is that it's going to be a sensitive topic today because we're going to dig

deep into our culture and dig deep into what I think is some of the frankly toxicity that we

have amongst ourselves. But we're going to talk about this with the focus on healing and love. It's not

meant to be ugly, but it may be uncomfortable because I'm going to challenge some of the

myths, I believe, that we have internalized that are doing us as individuals damage, but also as a

community. The second thing is I'm going to ask you to keep an open

mind and to know that I take this beautiful community that we are building so seriously.

And I want you to know that if you have been joining and participating in these

practices with me, because I really do feel like it's a we versus me process, you are not alone.

This podcast is exploding in popularity. And we really do have a sisterhood forming that I do not take for granted.

And I'm so grateful to each one of you who takes time to download or listen even for 10 seconds to this podcast.

So with those two things in mind, let's continue on with our family meeting.

And that is all about how to opt out of celebrating trauma. This is going to be another three-part series. This is part one. We're going to spend all

of our time today talking about what do I mean when I say opt out of celebrating trauma and how

does that look like? And again, our healing practice will be how can we recognize that we are celebrating trauma

in our lives?

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