Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here.

And today we are finishing out the week, our three-part series on permission to stop.

On Monday, I talked about my own journey and my own struggles with

stopping and what it has cost me this year and my own commitment to myself to make

2025's version of Kelly a much more boundyed and joyful and grounded person than 2024, Kelly, has been so far.

And to that end, on Wednesday, we talked all about ways that you could join me on this journey

with some practical suggestions of how to professionally hit the stop button in preparation

for starting new behaviors, new habits,

new boundaries.

And now I want to close out the week today by talking about how you could infuse the

permission to stop in your personal life.

And again, I want to look at five areas that you can think about how you can

pause at minimum stop, though, really is the goal. And the first area I want to talk about

really is around comparison. So bucket number one is stop the comparisons.

2024 has been a tough year for just about everybody I've spoken to. I honestly can't name one

person who hasn't said it hasn't been challenging for them. And if that is you and you're

having a great year, I am so thankful that you are.

But for a lot of people, they're just struggling. And I don't know if it's 2024 per se or if it's

just life. Life can be hard and it can be challenging. And in those moments, you can feel

particularly vulnerable to comparison.

Even though people are struggling when you go on particularly social media, what do you see?

You see curated images of people looking their best, creating an experience or a snapshot of their lives that looks like it's just one high moment to another.

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