Hey, hey, what's going on? This is Bree, the host of the Brown Girls self-care podcast have a really quick episode today, or I think it's gonna be pretty quick.

If it sounds a little bit different, it's because I'm in my car.

There's a certain comfort I get when I sit in my car and record, or when I'm not sitting at my desk in front of a microphone.

So hopefully the sound quality is okay for you.

But I mean, I'm using my iPhone and the voice memo recording app.

And this just feels more real for me right now.

So that's what I'm using. So hopefully you give me or allow me some space or excuse me some grace here.

Since again, I'm not using my microphone, but this is kind of, it feels comforting to be able to sit in my car and just record.

So doing what works for me right now.

So I had made a post on Instagram, maybe a few days ago, not necessarily apologizing for my absence, because I do feel like every black woman is allowed

to not have to be in all places at all times and show up for the comfort of others 24 hours, seven days a week, excuse me.

But I did make a post where I was just basically saying, you know, our feelings are valid and just kind of talked about why I had been away.

From social media, so I'll just read the post really quickly, so I'm not sounding very vague here.

So the post I made a few days ago on Instagram was beautiful black woman, your feelings are valid, all of them, you know, all of your feelings are valid.

And so in the post I wrote, you know, let me just leave this here for every black woman that has experienced a full range of emotions over the last week.

I've been away from social because I have not been celebrating the victory, I put that in quotations, ruling against Derek Chauvin.

Honestly, I've been mentally exhausting, excuse me, exhausted.

The ruling for me isn't something I've felt joyful about, I'm thankful for it, but it's much deeper than that for me and so it didn't make me happy.

I'll be talking about my move briefly in the next podcast episode, dropping on Monday, but I wanted to express clearly that black women are allowed to feel however they feel about our collective and individual experiences.

No one can tell you how you are supposed to feel a react.

You've had to mask our authentic pain and authentic joy for years, feel how you feel sis.

So that post was a few days ago on Instagram because I had been away from social media.

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