Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, and today's episode is asking the question of you.

Whose burdens are you carrying?

If you have been feeling a heaviness in your gut or in your heart, you have been feeling a heaviness in your gut or in your heart this episode is for you

this episode is all about identifying the weight that we may be carrying on ourselves in being

able to really understand who that belongs to, what weight are we carrying that

is our burdens we're putting on our self, and then learn the tools to kind of take some weight

off so that we can begin to heal and be our best selves.

When I talk about this topic of whose burdens are you carrying and what is that weight you're

feeling, so many things in popular culture and just in our culture speak to me about bringing

up this topic.

For example, Zorneal Heston, In one of my favorite books of all time,

their eyes are watching God. She talks about, she gives a story, really, about how white men and

white people don't carry heavy loads. And she said, so the white man hands his load off to the black man.

But she makes a really interesting comment in this extended kind of metaphor. She says, but the black man,

he may pick it up, but he doesn't carry that load. Instead, he turns it and gives it to black women.

And the real crux of that story is that she ends by saying that the black woman is the

mule of the world. And historically, mules have been associated with beasts of burden. That's

literally what they're called sometimes. They carry goods

and crops and people. They're an animal used for work. And when we're talking about what burdens

are you carrying and what Zora Neil Hurston really has to say, she really tells a story about the fact that

black women carry a disproportionate amount of weight. And what is that weight? Is it the weight of

legacy and familial weight? For example, maybe you're the most educated person in

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