Hey, hey, welcome back to the Brown Girl self-care podcast. My name is Brie Mitchell. I am a self-care coach.

I am also the founder of Brown Girl self-care. And of course, I'm the host of this show. If this is your first time listening to the show on iTunes or Spotify,

just want to say, hey, girl, hey, thanks so much for pressing play. And if you've been rolling with me for a while, welcome back. It's so nice to, I guess I can't technically see you,

but you know what I mean. It's nice to have you back. Thank you for your support. Now today, we are going to be talking about the unsexy part of self-care.

The unsexy part of self-care, because you know, it's always sexy online, right? It's always sexy when people are doing it for the gram spoiler alert.

Sometimes people really are literally just doing it for the gram, okay? They're literally just doing it for the gram.

So we're going to be talking about the unsexy part of self-care. But before we dive into today's juicy episode, I want to let you know that because I have been asked on occasion, how can we support the podcast?

I wish there was a way to support you. You now can says you can go to www.patrion.com forward slash brown girl self care all one word again, www.patrion.com forward slash brown girl self care.

I have built a little Patreon there where you can support the show. And while you are supporting, you will also be getting little love notes from me, journal prompts, things that are going to help you take your healing.

It's a clean journey further or your self-care journey further as you do the work, which is what we're talking about today.

So again, patreon.com forward slash brown girl self care to check it out. And all right.

So let's go ahead and get into today's episode. Shall we? Okay. So I talked about our mentioning before at the top of the show.

You know, we're going to be talking about this unsexy part of self care because I'm not going to say that I'm feeling some kind of way because I'm not see here's the thing.

A part of the challenge that I have with self care is that unfortunately in order to grow your platform, we've got to be on social media.

So the problem is that not being on social media is not the problem in regards to this episode. The problem is that there are people that are doing things just for social media.

They're doing it just for social media. So when you see someone doing these self care things, sometimes they're literally not even doing it.

And this is no judgment, no shade. That's not the point. My whole point is self care isn't always this glorified sexy thing that you see online. It's just not self care can be hard.

Self care can be ugly. Self care can feel like a full-time job.

I mean, and self care can sometimes take a lot of energy, not because you have to do all the things, but depending on the level of healing and type of self care that you're in need of from season to season,

sometimes require some extra energy from you. Like when you really start to press forward in some of the dry areas of your life that needs some TLC, it can feel like a challenge.

But when we go to social media and we're looking at social media as our frame of reference, you know, we see people that are making it look really beautiful.

And self care can be very beautiful. But I just want you to understand that social media shouldn't necessarily be like your first guide into what you should be doing for your life.

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