The Great Exhale

Today is one of the best days EVER!! Not only is it #Juneteenth, but it's also our first anniversary!! 🎉😊💚 We made it, y'all!! Thanks so much to our beautiful community members (we love you!! 💚💚💚), and to every single person who has supported us in any way, publicly as well as behind the scenes. We're celebrating quietly today - it's kind of our thing - but there is so much joy, love, gratitude, excitement, and bliss in our heart. Looking forward to even more wonderful years supporting our wonderful community. Happy birthday to us, and happy Juneteenth to you! 🖤❤️💛💚🖤 #TheGreatExhale

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We're feeling the love!! Thanks so much to our good sis and community member Maliesa Cadogan for this lovely Happy Anniversary message! 💚😊🙏🏾 #TheGreatExhale

Happy Anniversary to The Great Exhale and Lisa Hurley! So excited for what is to come for this phenomenal community of #support, love, and #growth. You dreamed it and built it, you did that! With much love, I salute you and wish you many more. Now, in true The Great Exhale form, #breathe, you’ve earned it. #thegreatexhale

Happy Juneteenth and Happy birthday to The Great Exhale!! 💗🎉 Lisa Hurley I hope you are having some much deserved rest today. I’m frolicking outside and in our online spaces (SPILL has spades now! 👀♠️) so I hope y’all are doing the same.

What a day we're having!! It's our first anniversary, and we're 100% in celebration mode. 🎉💚🙌🏾 Part of what we're celebrating is being featured in Sharon's Anti-Racism Newsletter! Our Founder Lisa Hurley was interviewed by her sis, and Curator-In-Chief of SARN, Sharon Hurley Hall (she/her) as part of SARN's "Building Our Own Table" series. Here's an excerpt: "The Great Exhale (TGE) is more than a community, it is a movement that centers Black women, supporting them in prioritizing self-care. We encourage Black women to put their proverbial mask on first, remove their superwoman cape, take a breath, and rest. It’s time for us to stop being the “strong Black woman.” It is time for us to relax. This is why the community focuses on self-care, soft living, and seeking joy. By providing a safe private space for Black women to be in community with each other away from harmful gazes, The Great Exhale promotes much-needed sisterhood and psychological safety. It is ideal for Black women who are ready to say no to hustle culture and yes to a life of ease." To read the full interview, go here 👉🏾: https://lnkd.in/ebdsq5iS #TheGreatExhale #Juneteenth

I can hardly believe that this week on Wednesday, (aka #Juneteenth) The Great Exhale will be 1 year old! 🎉💚💃🏾 What a ride it has been and continues to be. I’m so very grateful to everyone who has supported and is supporting me, and the community. 🙏🏾💚🙏🏾 There is no better affirmation with which to kick off this milestone week than this one: 🙏🏾 I am choosing to exhale 🙏🏾 I am choosing to exhale 🙏🏾 I am choosing to exhale In that spirit, I don’t have a big celebration planned—this time around. I’m actually on a health-related sabbatical, so I’m taking my own advice and doing less. So the turn up will be muted, but no less heartfelt. Looking forward to continuing to serve my community in divinely aligned ways. Asé 🙏🏾 #TheGreatExhale