Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Today I want to start with a question.

How are you feeling?

How are you physically feeling in your body?

Because today's episode is all about opting out of physical pain by building a really

meaningful self-care practice for the body.

One of the things about being a black woman, I realize, is that we have a lot of health issues

as a culture, that there is a lot of statistics that tell us that we are not taking care of

ourselves properly. Black women have higher rates of diabetes and heart disease. We have a disproportionate amount of

issues with fibroids in our menstrual cycles as a black woman who has struggled with fibroids,

cysts, endometriosis, PCOS, which is polycystic ovary syndrome, I ask that question because I really wonder how many

of us are physically in pain many days of the week.

And that, again, we are taught that that's just like a part of life, that periods are painful and having

chronic headaches and migraines are just the way it is when you're stressed and your job's

terrible or my mama had that. I can't tell you how many times we talked about, you know,

my mom had my mama had terrible periods and that's why I have it. Or my grandmother had it.

It's just what runs in our family.

And we believe, again, our literal inheritance is a bunch of physical ailments and more

importantly, a bunch of physical pain.

And so today, I want you to dig into a good inventory of how you're taking care of your physical health and provide some suggestions on how to do so.

And then end with a body scan practice.

Your practice today is going to be centered around just take an inventory of acknowledging where the places are that

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