Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly here.

And today I want to talk about how to opt out of suffering and silence.

But I want to talk about it with a specific lens, because

it's really a theme for the month, about how to opt out of suffering and silence with regards to

our physical health and our physical bodies. I've been excited about doing content like this

for a while now. And it's become increasingly important that we talk

about physical health amongst black women in our community as we see the consequences of

not being equipped to speak up and speak out and not giving ourselves enough credit to know when we are not feeling well or things are not going

right or even understanding what is normal versus not normal.

And so this month is really my attempt to tackle this head on and have discussions about

our physical health, normalize what's not normal,

erase the stigma around suffering and silence as a norm for our community when it comes to

our bodies. It just has to stop. And the only way it can stop is if we are educated and empowered to know what we deserve

and to go after it. And so this month is just chock full of the most amazing guests. I am so excited

for you to listen to the conversations I've had. They were truly

life-changing for me as I had them. So I can only imagine how impactful and powerful they're going

to be for you. Listen to these episodes. Some of them you're going to want to listen to on repeat

because they are full of a lot of great information.

Grab a pen and paper and jot down a couple of things that come to mind that you want to take from these episodes.

And come on the journey because it is time that we stopped normalizing, suffering, and silence in our community when it comes to our

bodies. I have used this quote before. I talked about it a lot when it came to sexual violence

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