Hey, what's going on guys? Thank you so much for listening to the Brown Girl Self Care

Podcast. My name is Bree and I'm the host of the show. In case you are new around here, I'm a

40-something single mom of one teenager and we are based out of

Southern California. In September of 2019 I quit my air quote good paying job to explore and build this community which

centers around self-care what it looks like and what it means for black women and women of color.

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So, happy Monday.

Let's go ahead and get into today's episode.

It's just going to be me today, and this should be a super quick episode, but you know sometimes I do like to gab a smidge

Today we're going to be talking about survival mode. Now when you think about survival mode I know that it sounds like a

crazy phrase no we aren't talking about the Walking Dead though in all honesty, you know, that's what it sounds like to me like survival

and it's like you're trying to survive the damn apocalypse.

And in relation to the walking dead, in all honesty, I have to admit that I was like the

show's hugest fan until Rick left the show. After that I

tapped out and I refused to watch any more episodes. But survival mode really is our mind's way of preparing for expecting and really

avoiding the worse in every situation possible.

And it's a lot of times due to unresolved trauma.

It pushes us to ignore how we feel and instead we just kind of work work work and push push push and go go go

While we keep our feelings on lock our feelings are just kind of like kind of like stowed away like when you get your

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