Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly here.

Today I want to talk about opting out of exhaustion.

Are you tired?

We've talked about opting into rest before, and I talked all about how much I love the nap ministry, which you can find on Instagram, but today I want to specifically focus on emotional exhaustion.

Lately, it's been everywhere amongst everyone, but particularly amongst my black fellow female women.

I have spoken to many people, and I keep having these conversations where people talk about

how tired they are. And some of that's physical tired, but a lot of it is a sick and tired, a kind of mental fatigue

of pushing themselves, of being fully engaged in the struggle, the struggle being real.

And in just general sadness about how things are for black women.

The statistics paint a bleak picture about us.

And world events and current events,

the way people are reacting, for example, to Kataji Jackson's confirmation hearing.

I mean, you just pick a thing happening in the world,

and people are exhausted. And so today I want to talk about really four or five ways to

opt out of exhaustion and opt into, as we've talked about before, meaningful rest.

And a lot of it has to do with the way that we engage with others.

So the first thing I've said this a million times in this podcast is setting boundaries

is a great way to opt out of mental exhaustion.

Setting boundaries on your time,

setting boundaries on who has access to you. All of those things are critical to opting out of struggle and will keep you feeling good about yourself versus depleted and resentful.

There are plenty of episodes on this podcast that talk about how to opt into having boundaries,

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