Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. Kelly here. And today I want to talk about how to opt out of toxicity in your relationships. And today we're going to focus on toxic friendship.

I've talked about this before, but I want to circle back around and really think about and

unpack how much having uneven, non-reciprocal friends in our life, even toxic people in our lives, can have an

impact on our well-being and can keep us stuck in the struggle.

And of course, I want to revisit how to maintain and build healthy friendships.

Again, our inheritance is community.

And so much of the community is who we uplift, who we spend time with, who we

trust with our vulnerable parts. So it's really important that we have the right people in our

community to really access the richness of that inheritance. One thing I know about us as black

women is that our friendships can be our rocks.

They can be people that can make all the difference in our successes, in our struggles.

Who is there around us makes so much of an impact. But also, because we are black women and we desire

community, there may be times that we have people in our company that may not need to be there

or that we need to rethink what place they take in our lives. So today we're going to revisit

the signs of an uneven friendship or a toxic

friendship. We're going to revisit how to set boundaries in a way that will definitely have a huge

impact on the relationships you have for the better. And then we're going to talk about, well,

in the absence of toxic friends, in the absence of non-reciprocal relationships,

how do we find the right people to be in our community? How do we put that energy out and receive

those people in? And as always, I will leave you with a practice that you can start right now to do

to help you develop healthy, nourishing friendships. So let's first start with

what are the signs of a toxic or uneven friendship? And the fact is, is uneven, non-recipical

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