When Black women have trouble receiving kindness

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Accepting kindness in the form of help, compliments and gifts is not only a celebration of you it's also an act of resistance.

I recently experienced a situation where I declined someone pouring into me and it really made me sit down for a while and reflect on why I reacted the way I did. In this episode I'm giving you three thoughts on how to shift your perspective if you have a challenge receiving kindness.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey what's going on? This is Bree and you're listening to the Brown Girl Self Care
0:06.7	podcast. I am the host of the show and I'm also the founder of Browngirls Self Care.com.
0:14.0	I want to have a conversation today
0:17.0	based on a recent experience that I had.
0:19.0	And I felt that this conversation was like very timely very appropriate very relevant and so I'll
0:27.8	get into kind of what spurred this topic but first of all let's go ahead and say
0:32.1	what the topic is, but first of all, let's go ahead and say what the topic is, which is a question I want to ask you is, how do you accept help or compliments or gifts?
0:40.0	Like, what does that look like for you how does that feel when someone is reaching out to you as an act of compassion or
0:50.3	generosity or kindness or or love like how does it feel for you to receive or accept or the
1:00.0	thought of accepting help accepting accepting a compliment, accepting gifts, okay?
1:05.4	So today I want to share my thoughts about that, how I feel about it, and because I do think
1:12.4	that us allowing ourselves to to receive love or receive kindness in the form of like you know someone offers help and you accept their help or or even
1:25.9	raising your hand and saying you need help you know what I mean or compliments or gifts
1:29.8	being able to accept that those to me are a form of self-care.
1:35.0	Now I will say that I am by no stretch of the imagination and by no means a licensed professional,
1:42.0	but, you know, I feel like as a black woman
1:45.0	that's doing her best to intentionally rise after years and years and years and years of shrinking and
1:55.3	playing small for like really for like a big chunk of my life I feel like I can be
2:00.4	open with you about my journey if it can be used to pour into you, to help you rise as we are
2:12.2	on this path.
2:14.3	So I'll say this.
2:17.0	Being intentional about my self-care and understanding
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