The Great Exhale’s Post

We don’t talk enough about the power that lies in trusting yourself. Especially in a system and society that positions you to conform to survive. We look outside for confirmation. We look outside for validation. We look outside for direction. Whole time, all we need to do is look within. Because more times than not, we know best. Episode 41 is about reclaiming the power that lies within. Link in the comments 💕

Happy Friday, Beloved! Keep breathing... your story gets better 🙏🏾✍️🏾📚😊

💰💰 Say It With Your Checks 💰💰 On the penultimate day of Black Business Month, I want to share a reminder and a call to action: Black Business Month is every month, so support Black businesses all year round. That means myriad things, including putting your money where your mouth is. It also means supporting each other, and providing each other with opportunities. Case in point: I was given the opportunity by pocstock to contribute to their instock newsletter for this month. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 Here's an excerpt: "What does “being the change” look like, you ask? The answer is simple. Right now in your circle, in your connections, in your spheres of influence, there are Black business owners that you know. Support them. Support us. Not only with tags and likes, but also with funds and purchases. We cannot sustain our businesses with comments and kudos. We cannot pay our bills with exposure. Get active. Use some verbs: ✅ Hire. ✅ Fund. ✅ Donate. ✅ Promote. ✅ Purchase. ✅ Subscribe. Want to support us? Say it with your checks! Support a Black-owned business today, and tomorrow, and the day after that..." To read the full piece, and the entire edition, link is in the comments. And because pocstock always has the sauce, you know they came out with a #BlackJobs collection. Make sure to check it out. #SayItWithYourChecks #pocstock #TheGreatExhale Thanks to Steve Jones and the pocstock team for amplifying my voice!

Very gentle, very mindful, very demure. 🙏🏾 🌸 🙏🏾 Have a wonderful Monday, y’all. [Captions:] Today’s affirmation; repeat three times: I am choosing to be gentle with myself 🙏🏾 I am choosing to be gentle with myself 🙏🏾 I am choosing to be gentle with myself 🙏🏾 Namaste 🙏🏾 #TheGreatExhale

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Tfw the code switch is set to the “off” position. ✊🏾 I understand why FLOTUS Michelle said what she said in 2016. I appreciate that now she’s no longer bound by the weight and requirements of the office—she’s letting ‘em have it. #BlackJob

Imma say this louder for those of y’all in the back that are willfully hard of seeing and hearing: IF IT DON’T APPLY, JUST WALK ON BY. You see the title of this here page, if you can’t be bothered to do any other due diligence. If the title alone makes you scrunch up your face, roll your eyes, or think to yourself, “but what about…?,” walk on. This ain’t for you. Put all that wasted energy you’re chucking over here to post some subtle as a skunk in a perfume store “all lives matter” propaganda to better use. You ain’t clever and you ain’t fooling anyone. I’d suggest unlearning your very loud and conscious bias, but I know that is a lost cause. So might I propose yoga, Pilates or whatever your favorite pastime is?—other than trolling other people, obviously. Go do that nowhere else. You are the reason spaces like this absolutely have to exist. This space is first and foremost for Black women—*gasp* I know, right?—AND for all allies, advocates, supporters, defenders, protectors, and lovers of who we are and what we stand for. This place is inclusive of anyone who gets it and isn’t offended when Black women are centered, not to the exclusion of all others, but, you know, for once. If you can’t understand the difference, all I got for you is the GIF below. #iykyk #isaidwhatisaid #psa