Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly here.

And today's episode is all about opting out of lies.

Now, lies happen every day, all around us, and if we're being

honest, we're probably told a few. But we're not going to focus today on the lies that get

told to us and the lies we may tell to others, that's coming up in future podcasts and in

other ways I will address that. Today, I'm going to talk about the lies we tell ourselves

and how to opt out of those lies.

And I want to start by talking about the original lie, I think, about black women.

The lie that I have fundamentally told us that we have to opt out of, which is the lie about struggle.

The lie that we as black women were born to struggle, we're born to suffer,

we're born to be trapped in a cycle of fighting and never experiencing joy and never

experiencing our inheritance and our legacy. And because of that

original lie, there's so many offshoots of that, right, that have become myths that we carry

with us, whether we realize it or not. And then once those myths are in the air, so to speak,

and a part of our culture and a part of

then who we are, they become lies that we tell ourselves.

They show up as imposter syndrome.

They show up as limiting self-belief.

They show up as self-esteem. And so today I want to talk to you about

the lies that we tell ourselves about who we are, about what love is like, and about what we can do.

And I'll give you, as always, a healing practice to close out your day and hopefully get you

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