Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here.

And today we're going to talk about the concept of the squeeze and how to let go of things in order to grow. This is directly following,

hopefully you listen to the episode with Resma Menachim, who is the first man that we've had on the

podcast. And we get into some really deep conversations. And so I wanted to break up this

conversation over a couple of weeks

versus over a course of a week to really dive deeper into some of the things that we're

talking about. You know, when Rezma and I get together, we're two therapists who just love to go

deep and go quick. But there's so much in the conversation that we had that I really want

to take the time to

pull back a little bit and really talk about what is this concept of the squeeze and how

do we learn to manage it, what we're feeling collectively as a culture, and how we learn to

let go of things in order to grow as people.

So let's start with this kind of definition of the squeeze, which is this immense collective

pressure that black people, especially us as black women, are feeling.

And it's really important to explain that even though we're in a time frame now

where everything feels so intense and maybe even amplified more than we're used to, this squeezing,

this cultural pressure that we're feeling isn't something that just happened today. It's the weight

of history and oppression and inherited expectation that we're

supposed to just push through when bad things happen. It's all of that hanging out. And so I want

to talk a little bit about why does it feel so heavy now? And what's the difference between

normal stress and this cultural pressure? And a lot of that is like, why are things so heavy now?

I mean, the obvious, there's economic turmoil. If you're in the United States, you're hearing

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