Hey, what's going on guys? This is Bree with the Browngirls Self-Care Podcast. Thank you so much for pressing play on today's episode.

I actually considered not recording an episode for today because I am just kind of all over the place right now with everything that's going on

Which you know you obviously already know with the George Floyd situation we're still

dealing with Brianna Taylor and a mod and just all of it collectively honestly all of it collectively I feel like I just don't even know who I am right now. I can't

seem to separate myself from what's happening right now. Like I mean obviously I'm not even sure if I'm

making sense but I'm finding it hard to just find Bree in all of this and so I'm kicking myself care into overdrive and

actually I'm talking about two very simple and effective ways that I am

practicing self-care these days along with my normal you know day-to-day things that I do that I've talked

about here before, but I'm doing two more things that I started this week that are highly effective,

free.

It doesn't take too much time. I mean depending on how far you want to go with it,

but I'll be talking about those in just a short minute, but yeah, it's just like coming

back to how, and you're probably feeling like this too, sis, like,

just, just, I guess in a nutshell, it just feels like I haven't really had a chance to kind of just like process everything that is happening.

I haven't had a chance to just, I mean obviously I'm breathing really, to really just breathe and to really just breathe and separate myself from what's going on, if that makes me sense.

I think the black community, but I'm a black woman,

so specifically black women,

we've just been through so much trauma we have

experienced so much trauma in our community and it's like when I'm talking about going years back like this isn't this stuff

didn't just start happening a week ago with or a month ago or a year ago with Trayvon Martin

Sandra Bland, Brianna Taylor, Amad, George,

Sean Bell, like these things didn't just happen, you know, in the last few months, last few years.

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