Hey, what's going on y'all? You're listening to the Brown Girl self-care podcast.

My name is Bri Mitchell. I'm the host of the show as well as the founder of Brown Girl

self-care, a space for black women who are looking to get to where the healing joy and

abundance resides. I want to just go ahead and dive right into today's episode. First,

I want to go ahead and invite you to settle into the space if you can. Set an intention

for this episode as you listen. What do you want to get out of this episode? What do you

want to get out of this time that we are spending together? You and I, even though we're

not face to face, so let's go ahead and get right into it. Usually I share what I did

for self-care in the previous days or weeks, but this episode literally is all about that.

So we're not even going to make space for that because this is the space. This entire

episode is the space. I'm going to be real with you. I don't know how long this episode

is going to be, but I'm just going to put it all out there because I think it's important

and I think it needs to be talked about. What I want to talk about today is the fact that

your body says your body is the biggest truth teller that you'll ever have. Your body

is the biggest truth teller that you will ever have. So I try to be as respectful as possible

when it comes to sharing my truth because I know that my truth is attached to the truth truths

of other people that are in my life or I've dealt with or someone that I might know. You

know what I'm saying? I realize that, but it's like there's, I'm still trying to figure

out like where is the line of me being completely open and honest. You know what I'm saying?

So all that to say, you know, some things I may not be able to go into as much as I would

like to, it could be because of just my personal comfort zone or it could be because just again,

out of respect for other people. But I do try to figure out ways to share as much as possible so

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