Hey, what's going on? You are listening to the Brown Girl Self Care Podcast. My name is Bree and I'm the host of the show,

as well as the founder of Brown Girl Self Care. Brown Girl Self Care is a platform in space of intentional healing,

joy and abundance for black women.

Today I want to talk about how it's okay to let people struggle.

Now hear me out, hear me out, it's probably not what you think,

but it is okay to let people struggle, number one, and number two, I guess as an

aside, it's also okay to make room for people to miss you and the way that you always chip in.

So I'm going to talk about that today because I know a lot of us struggle with that.

We want to step in and fix things and things like that, but I'm going to tell you why that is a detriment, okay?

And also I guess give you permission in case you need it,

which I don't feel like you do,

but sometimes we just need to hear someone else say this

and be real with us, that it is okay for you to step back,

step away and again allow people to struggle. So before I go into that really quickly,

first of all I want to shout out a listener, her name is Zaire, hey girl, hey, hopefully you're listening to this episode.

I just wanted to shout her out.

She's been listening to the podcast for a minute.

So once again, say hey.

And then second of all, sometimes I do like to share what I have done in regards to my own personal self-care in the last few days, weeks, or just this month if there's an area of focus or whatever so I will just

say there have been several things that I have done for myself or in regards to

self-care one thing that instantly comes to mind is that I went on kind of like a nature walk.

There is a park, a huge huge park near my home and I have, I've only been there maybe like, well there's

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