Black Girl Burnout
Black Girl Burnout is a podcast hosted by Kelley Bonner dedicated to helping black women manage the stress of daily living and preventing the detrimental effects of burnout. Black women often feel overburdened and undervalued, and this podcast offers palpable solutions for this undeniable phenomenon. Bonner is a licensed therapist with over 15 years of experience helping people and organizations transform, evolve, and heal burnout. Each week, she dives deep on topics around burnout including career burnout, relationship burnout, and how racism and sexism contribute to the acceleration of burnout-in just 15 minutes! Bonners helps listeners develop the tools to combat and overcome burnout. During each episode, she guides listeners through bite-sized and manageable practices that provide immediate relief by leaning into their own intuition and becoming more engaged and connected with themselves and their surroundings.
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Opt-Out of Distraction
Today I want to talk to you about opting out of three types of distractions. We will focus on relationships, family, and meaningless work distractions. In our daily lives, it is so easy to become distracted. However, I will be presenting tools to help...
18 min
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Opt-Out of Parenting Parents
Today I want to talk to you about opting out of parenting, your parents. This is something that is very much a part of the black experience. To remain in alignment with opting into patterns that are healthy, we're going to talk about five ways to set...
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Opt-Out of Avoiding Therapy
Today I want to talk to you about opting out of therapy avoidance. Yes, that’s right. It is officially time to stop avoiding therapy. Opting in to your true birthright to live a life filled with happiness, financial abundance, and healthy...
18 min
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Opt-Out of Covid Anxiety
Today I want to talk to you about opting out of Covid Anxiety. I am going to share 5 strategies with you, to help you to reduce covid related anxiety. Do I have a cold? Do I have a cough? Or is it Covid? If you are stuck in a state of constantly...
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Opt-Out of Uneven Friendships
Today I want to talk to you about opting-out of uneven friendships. However, I also want to talk to you about optin- into the process of building meaningful ones. If you are tired of repeatedly dealing with friendships where you are giving one hundred...
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Whose Burdens Are You Carrying?
Today I want to ask you a very simple question, whose burdens are you carrying? If you have been feeling a heaviness in your gut, or in your heart due to carrying other people’s burdens, this episode is for you. Releasing other people’s burdens is all...
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Opt-Out of Mediocrity
Today I want to talk to you about deleting mediocre connections and intentionally living your best life. When we exist in state of mediocracy, we tend to lack confidence in ourselves, we don’t invest in ourselves, and we often hate our jobs. If you...
16 min
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Visualize Your Success
Today I want to talk to you about visualizing your success. Visualization is a very powerful tool, especially when it is paired with writing down what you desire to achieve on paper. If you are experiencing life hurdles, self-doubt or imposter...
16 min
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Opt-Out Of Pain
Today's episode is all about opting out of physical pain by building a meaningful self-care practice for your body. Black women are more commonly diagnosed with diabetes and heart disease. We also have a disproportionately high rate of incidence of...
22 min
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Opt-Out Of Struggle: Unlock & Exit
Today I want to revisit the concept of the Struggle with you. This time we will cover unlocking yourself from even the concept of struggle so that you can fully exit. If you are exhausted, feel like you're constantly trying to keep your head above...
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Caregiver Burnout
Today I want to talk to you about caregiver burnout. Being a caregiver often leads to periods of overwhelming stress and depression. If you are a black woman who is caregiving, I want to talk to you about what that looks like when you're experiencing...
17 min
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Level Up
Today I want to talk to you about three signs to look for when determining if you are living life at the most optimal level. Many of us hold back from living up to our full potential. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. I want to walk you...
19 min
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Unplug Haters, Period
Today I want to talk to you about five strategies that will help you to eliminate the impact that haters have on your life. Being intentionally undermined, diminished, or disappointed by people that you've trusted, results in a special kind of pain....
17 min
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Maintain An Attitude of Gratitude
Today I want to talk to you about five gratitude practices that will help you to maintain an attitude of gratitude. I believe that gratitude heals burnout, and it helps prevent it. It's a really powerful tool for relieving stress and de-escalating...
18 min
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Eliminate Invisible Distractions
Today I want to talk to you about identifying distractions that are associated with racism. In reality, racism is a distraction. It keeps you in a disruptive cycle of proving and explaining yourself, repeatedly. However, as Toni Morrison says, “there...
18 min
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Release The Past
Today I want to talk to you about 5 key techniques that will help you to finally let go of things that no longer serve you. As black women, we face a lot of disappointment. And we are constantly attacked, vilified, and sexualized. If you are feeling...
17 min
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Transcend Escapism
Today I want to talk to you about three critical skills that will help you to work through the pain and avoid escapism. When the pain becomes too much to bear, we tend to run away from it. I have, and in some way, we all have. But in the end, we still...
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Engage in Self Kindness
Today we are going to talk about self-kindness. I want to focus on self-kindness because I think it's the one thing that we as black women just don't get enough of. This episode is for you if you are constantly forcing yourself to do things....
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Breakaway from self-judgment
Today I want to talk to you about 5 tips that will help you to finally put an end to self-judgment. It's something that I have struggled with all my life. If you have a pattern of setting extremely high standards for yourself, you know what I mean. I...
17 min
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Conquer Family Burnout
Today I want to talk to you about 10 healthy survival strategies to help you with navigating gatherings with family and friends. Perhaps, you know that you're going to see your family members and you experience tension just thinking about having to...
17 min
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Be Good To You
Today I want to talk to you about Self-Compassion and three pillars designed to teach you how to treat YOU better. We will focus our self-healing exercises on mindfulness, common humanity, and self-kindness. If you are struggling with a harsh inner...
15 min
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Opt-Out of The Struggle
Today I want to talk to you about the Struggle, and the Four Pillars that will help you to Opt-Out of Struggle with consistency. It’s time to affirm who you are, write your own story, be intentional, and establish a positive environment. This episode...
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Identifying Burnout
Today I want to talk to you about the three things, what burnout is, the symptoms of black girl burnout, and what burnout specifically means for black women. You have likely felt the impact of burnout before. It is the knots in your shoulder. It is...
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Introducing Black Girl Burnout
My name is Kelley Bonner, and welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. This podcast is dedicated to helping black women manage the stress of daily living while preventing the detrimental effects of burnout. As black women we often feel overburdened...
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