December 29, 2024 • 57 mins
Embracing the end of a season. This is the 5th part of the five part blog collection in our Solo Season Series where we unpack how to process through and grow coming out of our space of solitude. This entry is for you if you are single and ready to begin dating again; if you are preparing for a new chapter in life; if you are on your healing journey; or simply if you are a woman that prioritizes her feelings and emotions in whatever walk of life she is on.
The journal prompt for this entry:
What would be your personal mental health mantra?
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The journal prompt for this entry:
What would be your personal mental health mantra?
You can find the blog that goes with this episode along with the previous 4 posts here:
www.sharingpinkpromos.com
My Linktree can be found here:
https://linktr.ee/BLOGQUEEN
If you are interested in the guided weight loss journey journal by Shytavia Johnson
you can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZ...=cm_sw_r_as_gl_api_gl_i_Z094KS332A63CFD66AWT?linkCode=ml1&tag=larayanderso-20
Connect with me on Instagram:
instagram.com/thoughts_of_a_blogqueen
If you are interested in any of the BetterAlt products, use my code BLOGQUEEN for an additional discount off.
https://thebetteralt.com/colle...
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/thoughts-of-a-blog-queen--2822332/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Let's do this. You're listening to the thoughts of a
blog queen podcast A woman and hey girl, So welcome
back to another entry, your thoughts of a black Queen podcast.
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Where y'all been? I know y'all not know where you been? Girl?
Where you been? I've been gone. I've been gone and
I've been getting myself together. But here I am. Welcome back.
If you're tuning in again, if you're coming back to
see me, thank you for coming back. If this is
your first time tuning in, welcome, stay awhile. The way
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we do it around here is we take this moment.
If you're tuning in to when this entry dropped, it
is self care Sunday. So you should be doing something relaxing.
You should be doing something for your self. You should
just be chilling. And let's just you know, let's chop
it up over here. Let's talk about some things. I
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want to fill you up. I want to pour into
your cup. So speaking of let's go ahead and let's
start there. Let's pour up. Okay, So this entry, your
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cup is being filled by Taysha Smith and I'm taking
this from Pursuit and Perseverance. This is chapter six embracing
self discovery. So this is the passage. Collect this gym now.
One of the most critical aspects of self discovery is
understanding that you should not be defined by what others
think of you. People will have opinions, judgments, and expectations,
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but it's essential to maintain clear understanding of who you
are and what you bring to the table. Your worth
should not be tied to materialistic possessions or societal standards
of success. You are capable of extraordinary things and your
potential knows no bounds. Okay, period. So did y'all did
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y'all hear that? Did y'all? Did y'all catch that? Jim?
Pick it up, put it in your pocket, take it
with you, show somebody else, fill somebody else up, y'all.
I am so okay. Let me slow down, because when
I have, when I get excited, I get excited when
I come back and I start talking to y'all because
I have so much that I want to tell y'all
and so much that I want to share. But relax, everybody, relaxed.
(02:43):
Let me just let me, let me do one thing
at a time, one thing at a time. So let's
talk about first of all, we just okay. Christmas just passed,
and hopefully everybody had a really good Christmas if that's
what you celebrate, or a good holiday, or just an
amazing December twenty fifth, If you don't celebrate the holiday,
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I hope that it was great. I hope that it
was amazing. I hope that it was surrounded with positivity,
good energy, love and light. Family minds. Was real, chill,
real quiet. I didn't really get to see my family.
I spent Christmas with my son, but it was very relaxing.
It was very necessary for what I needed. I've been
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kind of tired, just like overall, and I think that
that comes from just trying to connect a lot of
dots that I have going on and trying to like
just make some things happen. So I have really been
exhausted December kind of actually not even just December, I
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want to say October, November, and December, like the entire
fourth quarter pretty much like tussled with me literally whooped
my ass and one. So yeah, there's that. So I'm
kind of like in recovery. We're getting ready to go
into this new year, y'all. It is about to be
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twenty twenty five. Can you believe it. I'm actually feeling
anxious about it, but I'm kind of like ready. The
anxiety that I have going into it is because like
I have a what I would consider a very big
personal hurdle to get through in January. And you know,
when you don't really know the outcome of something, it
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kind of like leaves you feeling anxious. You don't know
what's gonna happen, you don't know what the you know,
how it's going to turn out for you with the
outcome is going to be. So that has been kind
of been sitting with me, and I'm just I'm prayed up, y'all.
I'm staying in prayer and I'm just trying to like,
you know, hope for the best and just realize that
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like everything that comes at me is something that I'm
capable of working my way through and I just have
to get through it. And so that's the kind of
that's how anxiety does you. Dirty It just like makes
you feel so worried, and even though it could be
something very big and something that you know you naturally
would be worried about, it's just that like the build
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up to it is intense, and if you struggle with
anxiety like I do. Then it is it's a lot.
So that's kind of been my own personal little struggle lately,
like the mental weight that I'm carrying. That's kind of
been what's you know, on my mind? But we're not
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here to talk about that. We're here to catch up.
We're here to talk about what's going on, all things
thoughts of a blog, queen, podcast and just the things
that I'm trying to manifest and put out there into
the world and to deliver to you guys. I want
to continue to bring you, guys, really good content and
really good just really good energy and just really good
(06:03):
positive resources to you guys. I want to make sure
that I continue to show up. This podcast platform is
something that is it's it's a part of my platform,
and it is a project that I'm working on. But
it is also very therapeutic to me because I talk
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to my audience, my community, my people. You know, I
talk to you guys, and I share things that I
need to hear for myself, right and so we're going
through all of this together. So just shout out to
the people that are working their way through with me
right along with me. So let's see, let's talk about
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how some of the things that I have going on
for starters, for starters too big things. I don't know
if I mentioned this in the last entry or not,
but I have been like constructing our pay community and
I'm excited for that. Yes, I'm excited for the Patreon
(07:08):
community to be like up and fully ready, like I've
already got some stuff loaded in there. But I have
so many ideas of what I'm going to put into
the Patreon, So look out for that. There's gonna be
different levels. We're gonna have the lobby and then we're
gonna have the penthouse levels. So obviously there's gonna be
different perks that are included in the Penthouse and then
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you have kind of like steal all of the good stuff.
But then there's just gonna be some extra good stuff
in the Penthouse. But the lobby is gonna have a
lot of good stuff for you to just because you're
over there with me. So if you so, just look
out for that always, you know, connect with my link
tree wherever you're following me, whatever social media platform that
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you're following me on, just check out my link tree
and you will see as as I'm at all of
the things that I'm working on. I got about one
hundred links okay in my land link tree that I
need to I don't know. I just want to make
sure that I have all of the resources covered for
you guys. So so there's that. So Patreon is on
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the way. And not only is Patreon on the way,
but the actual the official website, the Thoughts of a
Block Queen podcast, well not podcast, but just thoughts of
a blog Queen website is it's up. I am working
on that every day too. I'm adding things there. I'm
(08:40):
trying to get that in order for you. Because what
we're gonna do is we're going to kind of lead
the blog Queen the Thoughts of a Block Queen column,
which is on the Sharon Pink Promos website. We're going
to kind of feed that in through and move that
column over so that website isn't going anywhere, so you'll
still always be to go over there and you know,
(09:02):
look around over there and find all of the gyms
that I've dropped over there. But we're just going to
migrate all things thought of the Black Queen to the
actual website. And I'm excited about that because I want.
I literally just want to put everything over there. And
it's just going to be so many things that are
in the works that are going to be added to
the website, so many ways that you can connect with me,
(09:23):
that I can build my community, that I can give
you guys, all of the things that I want to give.
I listen, twenty twenty five. I'm putting in some work,
and I got a head start this year fourth quarter
of twenty twenty four. I got a head start. I
knew what I wanted to do. So I'm putting my
feet down in the ground and I'm going I'm writing more.
(09:45):
That is literally trying to tussle with me too, but
I'm still writing. I'm still that is still the ultimate goal.
I'm not even gonna talk about that. But you know
that with with with everything, there comes a tabbit of
I don't want to call it a struggle, but yeah,
(10:06):
it's a struggle. Yeah, I ain't gone, that's a struggle.
Hell a struggle. But so yeah, so we got Patreon,
we got the website. What do we have? So we're
going to try to I've been inspired. We were already
like talking about different books and things like that, and
so I don't know. I was recently talking to oh No,
(10:29):
I was on a I was on someone's live and
she was talking about how she did her goal, her
goal for the month. Y'all hear this. Her goal for
the month was to read fifty books. No, did she
(10:49):
say month? I can't Did she say month or year?
I don't know. I can't remember either way. I I
feel like she's said month because I was blown away.
But she had a goal of fifty fifty books and
she actually did seventy five. So and I can't remember
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now whether or not she said that that was for
the month, where that was for the year. Either way,
for the month for the year is phenomenal if you're
able to get through seventy five. But I feel like
she said for the month, if I'm not mistaken. But anyways,
so when she said that, I was like, well, damn, okay,
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what am I doing? What am I not doing? And
I'm yeah, so listen, we're gonna try to get through
a book a month. I was trying to break it
down and do break it down for the for the
four quarters. I don't know, y'all, but all I know
is that we're gonna start we're gonna start We're gonna
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start the year off with a book that is one
of my favorite authors, Brianna Weist. She is the writer
of one hundred Essays to Change the Way You Think.
She is the author of When You're Ready, This is
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How You Heal, which if you know me, you know that.
Oh I stand for that book. I've talked about that
book a lot. That book has really been impactful to
me in my own personal healing journey. And I always,
I always, always, always share that book. So this book
is and this book, and there's another book that she has,
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the Pivot Year. I want to read that one too,
But we're gonna start with The Mountain Is You? So
that's gonna be something that we're gonna dive into for
January and we'll see, We'll see how this goes. Y'all listen.
Shout out to the people that actually can can do it.
As much as I love to read books, I am
not a fast reader. And I can be a fast reader,
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but it's just that I'm not making the time to
do it. So yeah, there is that. So we talked
about Okay, so what did I give you guys? I
gave you guys, Patreon. I gave you guys the website.
I gave you guys the book of the month for January.
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What else has been going on? Oh, Sizsa fans, my
Scissor fans. Okay, here's something to know about me. Here's
a little get to know me fact. I absolutely love
me some Scissor do y'all like SISSM. Some people think
Siss is hella crazy and toxic, and you know what
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she is. She has Sissy it can be. But let
me tell you something. I can relate to this woman
on so many levels through her writing, through her lyrics,
through her music, her first well not her first album,
but her last album as so as that got me
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through Okay when I say that that got me through,
it got me through my healing journey'll I don't know
if if you're listening to this and if you're a
big siss fan or not, but I'm always talking about her.
I'm always playing that listen. I So I listened to
my music through Apple and at the end of the
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year they kind of do a wrap up of you
know what you played the most and all of that listen.
Sissa was all up and through there, and they basically
told me that you I played Sissa more than anything
for the entire twenty twenty four year, and I believe
it because Homegirl got me through that healing. Like listen,
she was with me in the darkest of times, and
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in the lightest of times. That rollercloster that I was on,
she was right there with me, and so she just
drow Lana finally, Oh my god. If you're a fan,
you know that we've been waiting for that project. We
have been waiting for Lana to drop. She finally dropped it,
and it's everything I knew that it was gonna be,
and more so now I'm really convinced that, like I
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gotta go see her in concert somewhere. So I'm trying to,
you know, put a little bit of you know, put
some plans in motion to see how I'm do a
little one and two step and see where I can
go see Sissy because I didn't get to see her
on her first tour. But anyway, so yeah, I just
wanted to like shout out, I wanted to see who
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uh you know. I wanted to let y'all know how
I feel about that because hopefully I'll be able to
come back on one of these entries and talk about
my experience because I'm really debating on going and doing
this as on my next solo trip. So you got
So my first solo trip was this past July. I
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made it out of the state and I had a
really great time. And so now I'm like, I'm ready
for my next trip, and so I'm really debating on
making her concert my next solo trip, and I've narrowed
it down to a few different places. I've got three
places that I'm interested in going to see, one more
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than the other two just because I know that I
can connect with a couple people. So we'll see, we'll see.
But I look forward to being able to give y'all
some updates and content and stuff on my experience doing that.
The touring doesn't start until April, so which will be
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here before you know it. So I really got to
get my shit together and see how I can try
to put this trip together. But anyways, so with that
being said, talking about solo trips solo dating, I did
get my December solo date out of the way. I
went to dinner and I actually was productive on my
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solo dates. So I went to one of my favorite restaurants.
I got me a nice, nice little dip, little uh
drink on the side, and I was actually able to
completely fill in and plug in my content for January already.
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So I told you guys, like I got a little
head start, and I'm excited about that. That's what we
need to do whenever we can be. And honestly, when
I go on my solo dates, it's not really I
don't really choose to like like it's not really a
time for me to feel like I want to be
productive and like do work related things. But in this
particular case, I just wanted to start working on getting
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my my planner filled in and I actually thought it
was just gonna be some content that I was gonna do,
and I got everything filled in, so I have everything
mapped out for how my days are gonna go as
far as content goes for January. So shout out to me,
pat on my back for getting that done, because I
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didn't think I was gonna be able to get that
done as fast as I did, and in one sitting
in on my solo date. So if you are thinking
about doing a solo date, why the hell not? Why
not do it? Just go and you can you can
you know, some people they feel like funny about you know,
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being somewhere by themselves or you know, but you can
still keep yourself busy. And that's why one of the
one of the ideas that you can do for a
solo date. You can go to like a cafe if
it's earlier time of day, or like a coffee house
or something like that, and you can you know where
they have in you know, where it's normal to get
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work done and you can be productive. But I mean, personally,
I feel like for your solo dates should just be
like a time for you to just like be with
yourself and you know, just like think about things and
reflect and eat and just treat yourself really really good
and get all the things that you want to get.
But like I said, a date is a date, A
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solo date is a solid day. Just make it. Just
make it about you, all right, Just make it about you.
What else did I want to tell you guys about? Oh? So,
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I think let's go ahead and get it. We're doing
a blog breakdown. So if you're tuning in for the
first time, you guys, a blog breakdown means that I
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have written a blog that goes with this particular entry.
I'm gonna get into that because I've been rambling for
long enough. I've already been rambling for twenty minutes before
even getting into the blog breakdown. So I'm gonna try
to I'm gonna try to get through this fairly quickly.
We're talking about. This is the the fifth part of
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our five part blog series going into her solo season. Right, So,
if you are unfamiliar or if you're like I said
that this is your first time tuning in, check out
the links in the description notes of this episode. If
you're tuning in on Apple, you'll be able to find it.
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But again, find my link to you guys. Everything that
you need will be there. So I did a five
part blog series on going into her solo season, and
so this particular one is embracing the ending of a season.
This is the last part. So I'm wrapping this part up,
but you can go back. I really really really recommend
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you going back and starting from the beginning. So the
first part two it was going into her solo season
deeper than her singleness, and then part two was signs
you may need to go into a season of soliditude.
Part three was the end of an era that's er
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ego resentment and attitude, letting go of ego resentment and attitude.
And part four was the Black Girl Day Off. And
so now we are in part five, which is embrace
the end of a season. So we're wrapping this up
and again we're just talking about just go back and
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check those previous posts out because I'm Todd break everything down.
I'm breaking down what your season of solitude means, what
it might look like, how you know you might need
one signs and things like that, and we're just we
go through it and it's just broken down. It's a
really good series. I'm super proud of it, and I
want you guys all to to check that out. I
(24:36):
think you'll find some really good gyms. So let's go
ahead and let's get through this. Let's try to go
ahead and get through this blog breakdown. I'm sorry for
rambling so much before even getting to this. I have
so much to catch you guys up on. That's what
I get for being gone for so long, all right,
So anyways, let's go ahead and let's do this, all right,
(24:58):
Embrace the end of a season. So, just like with
most things in life, there comes an ending. The ending
will look different for everyone. Some will be unexpected, some
will be scary, but some endings will also be beautiful
and necessary. When a season of your life ends, this
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is a pivotal time in your world. It means that
you are inevitably going to begin a new season and
hopefully a new and more refreshed outlook on your future,
whether that be short or long term. As you process
through this solo season, you should have experienced multiple moments
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of reflection, moments where you were faced with really deep
diving into your thoughts on certain areas of your life,
and hopefully you were able to resurface with clarity if
you come to a point where you believe you are
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ready to end a phase or cycle or a season
as you've known it to be. I think it's always
helpful and self serving to ask yourself some self reflecting questions, right.
You always like every time we go through something like
anytime we're changing things, or anytime we want to enter
into something new or we want to phase into something new,
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we need to reflect about it, right. We don't want
to just dive into something without really thinking about things.
So self reflective questions. As a season or a cycle ends,
how am I feeling about this ending? How are your
feelings like? It's very important for you to round up
with yourself and just acknowledge exactly how you're feeling. Where
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are you at mentally and emotionally, if there were any
deep feelings of turmoil or confusion or frustration throughout this season,
have you since been able to resolve those feeling So,
anything that you were feeling that felt uncomfortable, have you
figured out a way to work through those things while
you sat in that moment, while you were in this
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season of solitude, anycomfortable moments that you may have, because
they will come, they will come. You may question yourself,
you may be unsure, you may be feel in a
certain type of way. So any discomfort in the moment
or in the space that you were in, you need
to figure out how you can maneuver through those things
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on your own. And when I say on your own,
I mean I don't mean that you have to get
through it, because you know there are other alternatives to
how you work through things, and you may need to
connect with someone else, like a third party, to talk
about some of your feelings or things like that. But
whatever it is, that's the point of that, how are
you feeling like? You need to be able to circle
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up with yourself right, And then the next question that
you might want to ask is what have I learned?
No matter what the circumstances are there, should and will
always be lessons to learn from any process that we
go through. The key is to recognize them and learn
from them and find the value in them. So anything, okay,
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do y'all hear me, Anything that you go through there
is there should be a lesson somewhere instilled in that experience,
and it's your job. Especially when you're sitting in a
space of solitude and you're trying to sort things out
in your life, it is very important for you to
identify certain points. Right, So you recognize and you find
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those lessons and you learn from them. How do they
translate over into where you're at now? How can you
take those lessons or whatever you learned in that lesson
in that experience, the wisdom that you can extract from
that experience, how can you apply it going forward? Okay?
The next question that you can ask yourself is what
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changes for the better do I expect to come from this?
And that's very simple. What's the best possible outcome you
could achieve in this season? And did you achieve it? Remember,
your solo season is a season where you are supposed
to be reflecting, You were supposed to be having time
with yourself, you were supposed to be figuring out what
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you want and what you need for yourself in this
at this point in your life, and there has to
have been some positive to come from that. And so
that is what this self reflective question is, asking you
what was the best possible outcome when you just when
you went into when you decided that you needed to
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go into this season of solitude, you always knew that
there was going to be up here where you were
going to come out of it. Right, there's always like
the end of the tunnel, the end of the rold,
the end of the season, And so what was the
best possible outcome for you when you came out of it?
That means that everything that you attached to yourself going
through it before you got to the end of it,
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what's the best possible outcome and did you achieve it?
So you were acknowledging your accomplishments here, you were acknowledging yourself.
You are acknowledging what you've gone through, and that is
a very very important part of this process. And then
the next question to ask is how have I grown
through this season. It's extremely important that you're able to
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answer this question. The fruit of your labor in this
season is through growth. If you don't think you've grown
it all, should this season really end at this time?
So when you just coming out of a season, coming
out of a space where you feel like you need
to end something and start something new, where you feel like, Okay,
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maybe you have decided that you wanted to just be
single in this season, and then you get to a
space where you're like, Okay, I think that I'm ready
to start putting myself out there and start seeing what's
out They're what, you know, what I'm going to attract
into my life? What do I really want? But in
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order to do that, you should have, in some form
have grown through this process. And if you feel the
exact same way, if you're making the same decisions, because
everything is gonna shift, everything is gonna shift in this time,
you're not going to be making the same kind of decisions.
You're not going to want to do the same things.
Things are going to elevate for you. I guarantee it.
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And if things have not, then it is probably not
time for this season to end. You still got some
more work that you need to do. Really, there's more
that needs to be done. Remember that some endings are
forced and we have no choice but to find a
form of closure in them. But when we speak about
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the solo season and it's ending, we're actively making a
decision to come out of this period where we chose
keyword chose, where we chose to intentionally focus solely on ourselves,
and where healthy isolation should have allowed us to focus
on self care, self awareness, and self love. When we
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come out of our solo season, it is with hopes
that we have been able to prepare ourselves for the
next season, the next chapter, or hell, simply just the
next day, because we're gonna take things day by day.
We don't have to try to rush everything. We don't
have to try to rush through the process. We don't
have to try to pull everything out of the process.
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We just have to take things day by day. Remember,
this is your journey, so this is your pace. This
entire season was supposed to be about you and your needs.
You gave yourself the permission to be a little selfish,
but for a good cause. We should always be working
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to be the best version of ourselves, and some times
that requires you to go inward in order to find
out how to do that. Okay, so here's another self
reflective question. What personal goals am I going to now
prioritize for myself that I may have been putting off.
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Taking the intentional time to focus on how you are
showing up for yourself and the world will also allow
you to better define your own goals. Maybe there's been
some things in your life that you have set aside
because you've been dedicated to showing up for other parts
of your life as a priority. Things like your career,
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your family, your friends, relationships are all commonly seen as
a priority to us. And even though they are of importance,
the priority still has to always be you and your
self care. This is how you are able to or
into other people. This season was intentional. I cannot say
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that enough. This season was intentional. This season was about you.
This season was a time for you to be alone
and to be happy. This was not about trying to
tap into a feeling of loneliness, because you can't feel
lonely if you like who you are with. Did y'all
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catch that you cannot be lonely if you like who
you are alone with, which is yourself? And that is
what we're doing. We are growing to like things about ourselves.
We're growing to love things about ourselves, and we are
growing to embrace things about ourselves. So the solo season
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should not be a time where you should ever feel
any sense of loneliness. If you are, or if you do,
then you're not quite doing it right. Loneliness is not
allowed in your solo season. Now. Is it a natural
feeling that some of us may have, Yes, as we're
adjusting to a new process, a new season. Yeah, but
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it's not allowed there. So it just as fast as
that feeling comes in, I need you to be able
to show for that feeling right on out. Loneliness is
not allowed in your solo season. I hope that in
your season you're really able to gain clarity about your
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goals and your purpose and truly nurture them on your own. Okay,
here's the next self reflective question. How has this season
helped me to communicate and coexist with others? Now, Again,
even though this is a season of solitude, even though
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this is a season where we are focusing on ourselves,
this is still going to directly have an impact on
how you communicate with other people, how you show up
for other people, how you allow other people to show
up for you, how you set boundaries, how you just
move forward in your connections with other people. So, even
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though the solo season was designed to bring self fulfillment
into your life, it is still okay to acknowledge how
the season can and will have an impact on your
relationships with other people. You work on yourself for yourself,
but there is always an investment that you are making
into other relationships to show up in those connections fully
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and positively, and most importantly, as a more effective communicator.
To be able to effectively communicate to those that you
choose to die during this time plays a role in
this season as well. Did y'all catch that last part?
To be able to effectively communicate to those that you
choose it is a choice you are choosing in this season.
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You have a right to choose. To be able to
effectively communicate to those that you choose to dialogue with
during this time plays a role in this season as well.
Remember this is a season of healthy isolation, which means
that there may be some individuals that you will want
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to open up to on how you're actively working on yourself,
always keeping in mind that this is at your discretion.
So you guys, choose who you want to share anything
that you experience in your solo season, or you keep
it to yourself. Right, y'all still following me. I'm I'm
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getting to the end of this. We're wrapping this up
because I feel like I felt like I rambled too
much at the beginning, so I'm trying to go I'm
trying to get through this through this blog fairly fast.
For you, guys, let's talk about transparency and closure. So
for me, me personally, my personal solo season has been
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about healing, healing parts of my heart that were damaged,
and restoring the self love that was dissolved. In the process.
I recognized that I allowed a sense of loyalty to
everyone but myself to choose the narrative of my life,
and so choosing to go into a solo season has
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given me a different perspective of my life for the better.
Making that choice to go into a solo season, it
should empower you. It should empower you because you're literally saying,
I'm going into the season of solitude, and I'm planned
by my own rules. I'm writing this story, I'm writing
this chapter. I'm the director of this film. However you
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want to whatever you want to call it is, this
is how I'm managing this time and this space. Now
almost two years into my solo season. My ability to
create healthy boundaries for myself has been one of the
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most important aspects and lessons I could have learned. Did
y'all catch that part? My ability to create healthy boundaries
for myself has been one of the most important aspects
and lessons I could have learned healthy boundaries. I struggled
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with that. I struggled with that because that meant that
I let I always let the feelings of others or
the fear of missing something to control my mindset to
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a certain extent, right, But I was able to figure
out just in moving forward and in communicating with different
people how literally, that that's not something that I'm going
to be okay with. This is me talking to someone
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that you know, I'm not gonna be okay with this.
I'm not going to do this just simply stating what
the boundaries are and just embracing the fact that if
me setting my boundaries bothered someone that much, then that
that's on that person. So if you setting a boundary
for yourself, it's something that someone else can't seem to
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accept or have as a problem with, or doesn't want
to deal with, or seems to be bothered by, or
seems to be any type of way other than what
you want. What you want that to be, you don't
have to continue to occupy that space. Set your healthy
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boundaries where you see fit. So my ability to create
healthy boundaries for myself has been one of the most
important aspects and lessons I could have learned. With that
came a refreshed and revived sense of self love. I
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am relearning how to enjoy my own company, identify my
own needs, and gain uninterrupted clarity on what I want
the next few years of my life to embody. That
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last part, really, it really resonated with me as I
was writing it. When I was originally doing this blog,
I you know, it took me a minute to get
through this. It actually which when I when I write
a blog, it it I get it done the same day.
This particular one I w it. It took me a
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few days to complete it because I wanted to make
sure that I got my words delivered to you as
best as possible. But let's let's go back and I
and I need you guys to catch collect this gym too,
take this one with you too. With that came a
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refreshed and revived sense of self love. I am relearning
how to enjoy my own company, identify my own needs,
and gain uninterrupted clarity on what I want the next
few years of my life to embody. Wow. So my
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hope for the person reading this is that you are amazing.
You feel good. I hope that you are happy and
healthy and leveling up your self care indefinitely. I hope
that you have peace of mind and your well being
is intact. Should you feel as though you lack anything
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that you know you need for yourself, give yourself the
honor and the grace to retreat into a season of
solitude and embrace getting back to you. That's what we
need to do. And that's exactly what the Solo season
is about. It is about finding how to get back
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to you. It is about how life has been crazy
and so much has been going on, and there's so
many things that have been happening, and it's just like,
oh my god. And it is it is after that
that you may realize that you need a season to reset.
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You've been pulled this way and pulled that way and
all of your priorities involved everybody but yourself, and you
need to know what you need, what you want going forward.
You want to know what is next for me in everything,
in life and love and relationships, for careers, what is
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going to be next for me? So this solo season,
just writing, the doing the blog, I mean, just being
in this series. We're going to be in this series
until entry forty nine. So we have five more I
don't know why I couldn't think of that just now.
We have five more entries of the Solo season series
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and then we're going to start a new I don't
know if we're gonna do a new series or not.
I don't know. Well, I don't I know what we're
gonna talk about, but I don't know if I'm gonna
make it into a a series or not. But we'll see.
I'm not We're not gonna talk about that just yet.
But yeah. So it's it's about getting back to you.
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It's about embracing you and who you are, where you are,
what you need, what you want, how you're fulfilled, how
you're unfulfilled. All of those things are allotted to you,
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They are owed to you. You just have to be
the one to initiate it right. You gotta get it going.
I I like I was saying, like writing this, doing
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this particular blog series, this five part series, this was
very personal to me, from the beginning to the end.
It was very personal. So I definitely recommend this for
I recommend, excuse me you going into your solo season.
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If you are in need of intentional pouring into your
cup by yourself, you doing it because it starts there.
Anybody else can tell you all of these amazing things.
They can do a lot of amazing things for you,
and but it is really it starts with how you
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feel about yourself, how you love yourself, how you handle yourself,
how you carry yourself, what you need, identifying those needs,
all of those things. It starts with you. And so
I want you to take what you are old. You
are old, time off, you are old, a period to
rest you are old self reflectory moments. So yeah, that
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is that wraps up that blog. I want you guys
to really check that out. I want you guys to
head over to the link that's in the description notes
sharing pink Promos dot com and you will be able
to find this particular blog entry and you'll be able
to go back and read the previous four. I really
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enjoyed writing this particular blog blog series. It was very
it can I resonated really well with this. So I'm
really hoping that you guys will be able to like
listen to this. And that's the whole purpose of me
doing the blog breakdowns is because, like you know, I
want to I want to tell you guys where my
head was at when I wrote certain things. I want
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to give you a little bit more of my emotion
when I you know, when I go through these blog
break now or I want you to know where my
head was at when I write these things. So again,
that was very That was very Uh that was that
was a good series, So check it out. So I
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really want to try to get through. Let's see, oh
our December. Let's okay, So before I get into the
journal prompt for this week, and we're gonna I'm gonna
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make this all the line, so we're not gonna do
something separate, but let's talk about the December journal challenge.
So if you're following me like on Instagram, you will
see that I have been doing a December journal challenge.
So this is a thirty one day Challenge. We are
now at day twenty eight, and well it would technically
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be if you're depending on when you're tuning into this,
it would be past that. But as I'm recording this,
it is day twenty eight. And so the December Journal Challenge.
The theme for this particular challenge is self care awareness.
Last time it was self love notes. We're doing self
care awareness and we are doing thirty one days of
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journal prompts. Shout out to everybody that has been engaging
with the with the challenge that has been giving me feedback.
And most importantly, if you're actually doing your journaling at
home and you're following along with this, shout out to you,
I'm so proud of you. This challenge is designed to
help you build a habit of journaling because I know
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that it can be hard, and so I felt like
after thirty one days, if you know, if you have
to be intentional about it, but it should have helped
you to develop more of a habit when it came
down to like writing and things like that. So and
I've just been enjoyed joining like putting the content out
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there for the December Journal prompt and so I'm gonna
go ahead and give you, guys what our next one
is going to be. Our next one is going to
be what would be your personal mental health mantra? And why?
So that will be our December twenty ninth journal challenge.
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So you heard it here first before I even put
it on the social media platforms. So again, that journal
prompt for day twenty nine is what would be your
personal mental health mantra? And why So? I'm gonna go
ahead and get out of here. Now. Before we get
out of here, I got a couple of shout outs.
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I felt like I might want to do kind of
some shout outs at the end of the entry. But
I have two very specific shout outs that I want
to give, and I want to give a little bit
of background into these particular shout outs. So the first
one that I want to shout out is Dominique Glisten.
She is a published author and she has a collection
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called the Pink Trilogy. I do have one of her
books that I bought a few years back, her first one,
which is Pink Canvas, and she has two more that
go in the trilogy, and it is listen. It's some
How can I explain this? It is if she is
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a very young This young lady is a very sensual
and erotic type of right, and so I'm excited to
get into it. But this is gonna be this's gotta
be some exclusive content. I can't I can't put it
on the social media. This content and how we're gonna
break down and go through her trilogy is going to
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be exclusive content that you guys are gonna find on Patreon.
So there's another perk we're gonna get into that, and
I mean it's gonna get spicy over there in her sensuality. Okay,
it's gonna get spicy. So shout out to her for
completion of her her Pink trilogy. I can't wait to
get the other two, the other two books, so that
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I can go through that. It's gonna be that's gonna
be fun. I'm looking forward. I'm so excited about my Patreon,
you guys, I'm so excited to add this exclusive content
over there, and really really because that's I believe that
is really a good way to build up a community.
Obviously there's other ways, but I feel like that's really
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a good way to build community up. And so my
second shout out you guys have heard me talk about
her several times. Shatavia Johnson is a published author as well,
and she has a weight loss journey journal and it
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is a fifty two week journal. It is called Lose Weight,
Not Your Mind. I'm so excited about this when I
was just gifted this particular book by her, and I listen. So,
Shatavia is a certified holistic nutritionist. That's one thing about her.
So she is definitely certified to give this information. She
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does give her disclaimer to consult with your physicians and
things like that in the beginning before you start anything.
But she has an amazing journal. I can't wait. There's
so many different charts and things in there. You gotta
workout log in there, your breakfast, lunch, and dinner calendar
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when you're jogging. So much stuff, so much stuff that
she has in there for you to like follow along with.
And it's accountability in a journal is what I think
it is. And I love how I mean she she gives.
There's just so many there's just so many good little
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gems in here. She gives you fun ways to work
your brain, fun ways to sweat meal ideas your dudes
and don't don't. She has a lot of things in
this journal, so I'm excited to actually start working through
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this one and doing some content so that I can
share this with you. So shout out to Schatavia and
thank you again for all of your support. You guys,
I'm going to wrap this up. This is This is
a long entry, but I guess it's okay. It's technically
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under an hour. I just really try to make these
entries shorter than that. But I think I caught myself
rambling and given a lot of information in the beginning.
So but with that being said, you guys again, check
the show notes. The description notes for all of everything
(55:31):
that I've mentioned will be down there. You'll be able
to find it. If you're tuning in on Apple Podcast,
if you're tuning in on another platform, it depending on
which one it is, you will see some of the information.
But outside of that, you will have to check out
my link tree and get all of those things from
(55:52):
the link tree. You know, you'll have to go through there,
and whatever it is that you're looking for, I will
have linked I'll have shay Tavia's Weight Loss Journey j
a journal which is a it's a perfect time to
grab her journal right, because we're getting ready to go
into a new year, and you know, typically that is
when a lot of people decide that they're gonna, you know,
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do their little New Year's resolutions and they want to
start working on way. And I happen to have my
hand up because I am one of those people. Okay,
I want to start getting my fitness together too, So
I'm excited to start going through that book and see
what I can work out. So anyways, you guys, thank
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you guys for coming back. Thank you guys for tuning in.
This has been a long awaited entry. I promise you
guys are going to do better with the spaces in
between the you know, hopefully it won't be another two
three full weeks before I do another entry. But I
can't make no promises. I can't make no promises. I can't.
So anyways, you guys, thank you so much. I love
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you so much for tuning in. Thank you to everybody
who has shared the platform, spread the platform by word
of mouth, just anything that you've done to engage with me.
I appreciate you, guys. I'm going to wrap this up
and until next time, you guys, piece and blessings, let's
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do this. You're listening to the thoughts of a blog
queen podcast Renee a woman and
Let's do this. You're listening to the thoughts of a
blog queen podcast A woman and hey girl, So welcome
back to another entry, your thoughts of a black Queen podcast.
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Where y'all been? I know y'all not know where you been? Girl?
Where you been? I've been gone. I've been gone and
I've been getting myself together. But here I am. Welcome back.
If you're tuning in again, if you're coming back to
see me, thank you for coming back. If this is
your first time tuning in, welcome, stay awhile. The way
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we do it around here is we take this moment.
If you're tuning in to when this entry dropped, it
is self care Sunday. So you should be doing something relaxing.
You should be doing something for your self. You should
just be chilling. And let's just you know, let's chop
it up over here. Let's talk about some things. I
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want to fill you up. I want to pour into
your cup. So speaking of let's go ahead and let's
start there. Let's pour up. Okay, So this entry, your
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cup is being filled by Taysha Smith and I'm taking
this from Pursuit and Perseverance. This is chapter six embracing
self discovery. So this is the passage. Collect this gym now.
One of the most critical aspects of self discovery is
understanding that you should not be defined by what others
think of you. People will have opinions, judgments, and expectations,
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but it's essential to maintain clear understanding of who you
are and what you bring to the table. Your worth
should not be tied to materialistic possessions or societal standards
of success. You are capable of extraordinary things and your
potential knows no bounds. Okay, period. So did y'all did
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y'all hear that? Did y'all? Did y'all catch that? Jim?
Pick it up, put it in your pocket, take it
with you, show somebody else, fill somebody else up, y'all.
I am so okay. Let me slow down, because when
I have, when I get excited, I get excited when
I come back and I start talking to y'all because
I have so much that I want to tell y'all
and so much that I want to share. But relax, everybody, relaxed.
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Let me just let me, let me do one thing
at a time, one thing at a time. So let's
talk about first of all, we just okay. Christmas just passed,
and hopefully everybody had a really good Christmas if that's
what you celebrate, or a good holiday, or just an
amazing December twenty fifth, If you don't celebrate the holiday,
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I hope that it was great. I hope that it
was amazing. I hope that it was surrounded with positivity,
good energy, love and light. Family minds. Was real, chill,
real quiet. I didn't really get to see my family.
I spent Christmas with my son, but it was very relaxing.
It was very necessary for what I needed. I've been
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kind of tired, just like overall, and I think that
that comes from just trying to connect a lot of
dots that I have going on and trying to like
just make some things happen. So I have really been
exhausted December kind of actually not even just December, I
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want to say October, November, and December, like the entire
fourth quarter pretty much like tussled with me literally whooped
my ass and one. So yeah, there's that. So I'm
kind of like in recovery. We're getting ready to go
into this new year, y'all. It is about to be
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twenty twenty five. Can you believe it. I'm actually feeling
anxious about it, but I'm kind of like ready. The
anxiety that I have going into it is because like
I have a what I would consider a very big
personal hurdle to get through in January. And you know,
when you don't really know the outcome of something, it
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kind of like leaves you feeling anxious. You don't know
what's gonna happen, you don't know what the you know,
how it's going to turn out for you with the
outcome is going to be. So that has been kind
of been sitting with me, and I'm just I'm prayed up, y'all.
I'm staying in prayer and I'm just trying to like,
you know, hope for the best and just realize that
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like everything that comes at me is something that I'm
capable of working my way through and I just have
to get through it. And so that's the kind of
that's how anxiety does you. Dirty It just like makes
you feel so worried, and even though it could be
something very big and something that you know you naturally
would be worried about, it's just that like the build
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up to it is intense, and if you struggle with
anxiety like I do. Then it is it's a lot.
So that's kind of been my own personal little struggle lately,
like the mental weight that I'm carrying. That's kind of
been what's you know, on my mind? But we're not
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here to talk about that. We're here to catch up.
We're here to talk about what's going on, all things
thoughts of a blog, queen, podcast and just the things
that I'm trying to manifest and put out there into
the world and to deliver to you guys. I want
to continue to bring you, guys, really good content and
really good just really good energy and just really good
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positive resources to you guys. I want to make sure
that I continue to show up. This podcast platform is
something that is it's it's a part of my platform,
and it is a project that I'm working on. But
it is also very therapeutic to me because I talk
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to my audience, my community, my people. You know, I
talk to you guys, and I share things that I
need to hear for myself, right and so we're going
through all of this together. So just shout out to
the people that are working their way through with me
right along with me. So let's see, let's talk about
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how some of the things that I have going on
for starters, for starters too big things. I don't know
if I mentioned this in the last entry or not,
but I have been like constructing our pay community and
I'm excited for that. Yes, I'm excited for the Patreon
(07:08):
community to be like up and fully ready, like I've
already got some stuff loaded in there. But I have
so many ideas of what I'm going to put into
the Patreon, So look out for that. There's gonna be
different levels. We're gonna have the lobby and then we're
gonna have the penthouse levels. So obviously there's gonna be
different perks that are included in the Penthouse and then
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you have kind of like steal all of the good stuff.
But then there's just gonna be some extra good stuff
in the Penthouse. But the lobby is gonna have a
lot of good stuff for you to just because you're
over there with me. So if you so, just look
out for that always, you know, connect with my link
tree wherever you're following me, whatever social media platform that
(07:55):
you're following me on, just check out my link tree
and you will see as as I'm at all of
the things that I'm working on. I got about one
hundred links okay in my land link tree that I
need to I don't know. I just want to make
sure that I have all of the resources covered for
you guys. So so there's that. So Patreon is on
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the way. And not only is Patreon on the way,
but the actual the official website, the Thoughts of a
Block Queen podcast, well not podcast, but just thoughts of
a blog Queen website is it's up. I am working
on that every day too. I'm adding things there. I'm
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trying to get that in order for you. Because what
we're gonna do is we're going to kind of lead
the blog Queen the Thoughts of a Block Queen column,
which is on the Sharon Pink Promos website. We're going
to kind of feed that in through and move that
column over so that website isn't going anywhere, so you'll
still always be to go over there and you know,
(09:02):
look around over there and find all of the gyms
that I've dropped over there. But we're just going to
migrate all things thought of the Black Queen to the
actual website. And I'm excited about that because I want.
I literally just want to put everything over there. And
it's just going to be so many things that are
in the works that are going to be added to
the website, so many ways that you can connect with me,
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that I can build my community, that I can give
you guys, all of the things that I want to give.
I listen, twenty twenty five. I'm putting in some work,
and I got a head start this year fourth quarter
of twenty twenty four. I got a head start. I
knew what I wanted to do. So I'm putting my
feet down in the ground and I'm going I'm writing more.
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That is literally trying to tussle with me too, but
I'm still writing. I'm still that is still the ultimate goal.
I'm not even gonna talk about that. But you know
that with with with everything, there comes a tabbit of
I don't want to call it a struggle, but yeah,
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it's a struggle. Yeah, I ain't gone, that's a struggle.
Hell a struggle. But so yeah, so we got Patreon,
we got the website. What do we have? So we're
going to try to I've been inspired. We were already
like talking about different books and things like that, and
so I don't know. I was recently talking to oh No,
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I was on a I was on someone's live and
she was talking about how she did her goal, her
goal for the month. Y'all hear this. Her goal for
the month was to read fifty books. No, did she
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say month? I can't Did she say month or year?
I don't know. I can't remember either way. I I
feel like she's said month because I was blown away.
But she had a goal of fifty fifty books and
she actually did seventy five. So and I can't remember
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now whether or not she said that that was for
the month, where that was for the year. Either way,
for the month for the year is phenomenal if you're
able to get through seventy five. But I feel like
she said for the month, if I'm not mistaken. But anyways,
so when she said that, I was like, well, damn, okay,
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what am I doing? What am I not doing? And
I'm yeah, so listen, we're gonna try to get through
a book a month. I was trying to break it
down and do break it down for the for the
four quarters. I don't know, y'all, but all I know
is that we're gonna start we're gonna start We're gonna
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start the year off with a book that is one
of my favorite authors, Brianna Weist. She is the writer
of one hundred Essays to Change the Way You Think.
She is the author of When You're Ready, This is
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How You Heal, which if you know me, you know that.
Oh I stand for that book. I've talked about that
book a lot. That book has really been impactful to
me in my own personal healing journey. And I always,
I always, always, always share that book. So this book
is and this book, and there's another book that she has,
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the Pivot Year. I want to read that one too,
But we're gonna start with The Mountain Is You? So
that's gonna be something that we're gonna dive into for
January and we'll see, We'll see how this goes. Y'all listen.
Shout out to the people that actually can can do it.
As much as I love to read books, I am
not a fast reader. And I can be a fast reader,
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but it's just that I'm not making the time to
do it. So yeah, there is that. So we talked
about Okay, so what did I give you guys? I
gave you guys, Patreon. I gave you guys the website.
I gave you guys the book of the month for January.
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What else has been going on? Oh, Sizsa fans, my
Scissor fans. Okay, here's something to know about me. Here's
a little get to know me fact. I absolutely love
me some Scissor do y'all like SISSM. Some people think
Siss is hella crazy and toxic, and you know what
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she is. She has Sissy it can be. But let
me tell you something. I can relate to this woman
on so many levels through her writing, through her lyrics,
through her music, her first well not her first album,
but her last album as so as that got me
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through Okay when I say that that got me through,
it got me through my healing journey'll I don't know
if if you're listening to this and if you're a
big siss fan or not, but I'm always talking about her.
I'm always playing that listen. I So I listened to
my music through Apple and at the end of the
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year they kind of do a wrap up of you
know what you played the most and all of that listen.
Sissa was all up and through there, and they basically
told me that you I played Sissa more than anything
for the entire twenty twenty four year, and I believe
it because Homegirl got me through that healing. Like listen,
she was with me in the darkest of times, and
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in the lightest of times. That rollercloster that I was on,
she was right there with me, and so she just
drow Lana finally, Oh my god. If you're a fan,
you know that we've been waiting for that project. We
have been waiting for Lana to drop. She finally dropped it,
and it's everything I knew that it was gonna be,
and more so now I'm really convinced that, like I
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gotta go see her in concert somewhere. So I'm trying to,
you know, put a little bit of you know, put
some plans in motion to see how I'm do a
little one and two step and see where I can
go see Sissy because I didn't get to see her
on her first tour. But anyway, so yeah, I just
wanted to like shout out, I wanted to see who
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uh you know. I wanted to let y'all know how
I feel about that because hopefully I'll be able to
come back on one of these entries and talk about
my experience because I'm really debating on going and doing
this as on my next solo trip. So you got
So my first solo trip was this past July. I
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made it out of the state and I had a
really great time. And so now I'm like, I'm ready
for my next trip, and so I'm really debating on
making her concert my next solo trip, and I've narrowed
it down to a few different places. I've got three
places that I'm interested in going to see, one more
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than the other two just because I know that I
can connect with a couple people. So we'll see, we'll see.
But I look forward to being able to give y'all
some updates and content and stuff on my experience doing that.
The touring doesn't start until April, so which will be
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here before you know it. So I really got to
get my shit together and see how I can try
to put this trip together. But anyways, so with that
being said, talking about solo trips solo dating, I did
get my December solo date out of the way. I
went to dinner and I actually was productive on my
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solo dates. So I went to one of my favorite restaurants.
I got me a nice, nice little dip, little uh
drink on the side, and I was actually able to
completely fill in and plug in my content for January already.
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So I told you guys, like I got a little
head start, and I'm excited about that. That's what we
need to do whenever we can be. And honestly, when
I go on my solo dates, it's not really I
don't really choose to like like it's not really a
time for me to feel like I want to be
productive and like do work related things. But in this
particular case, I just wanted to start working on getting
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my my planner filled in and I actually thought it
was just gonna be some content that I was gonna do,
and I got everything filled in, so I have everything
mapped out for how my days are gonna go as
far as content goes for January. So shout out to me,
pat on my back for getting that done, because I
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didn't think I was gonna be able to get that
done as fast as I did, and in one sitting
in on my solo date. So if you are thinking
about doing a solo date, why the hell not? Why
not do it? Just go and you can you can
you know, some people they feel like funny about you know,
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being somewhere by themselves or you know, but you can
still keep yourself busy. And that's why one of the
one of the ideas that you can do for a
solo date. You can go to like a cafe if
it's earlier time of day, or like a coffee house
or something like that, and you can you know where
they have in you know, where it's normal to get
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work done and you can be productive. But I mean, personally,
I feel like for your solo dates should just be
like a time for you to just like be with
yourself and you know, just like think about things and
reflect and eat and just treat yourself really really good
and get all the things that you want to get.
But like I said, a date is a date, A
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solo date is a solid day. Just make it. Just
make it about you, all right, Just make it about you.
What else did I want to tell you guys about? Oh? So,
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I think let's go ahead and get it. We're doing
a blog breakdown. So if you're tuning in for the
first time, you guys, a blog breakdown means that I
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have written a blog that goes with this particular entry.
I'm gonna get into that because I've been rambling for
long enough. I've already been rambling for twenty minutes before
even getting into the blog breakdown. So I'm gonna try
to I'm gonna try to get through this fairly quickly.
We're talking about. This is the the fifth part of
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our five part blog series going into her solo season. Right, So,
if you are unfamiliar or if you're like I said
that this is your first time tuning in, check out
the links in the description notes of this episode. If
you're tuning in on Apple, you'll be able to find it.
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But again, find my link to you guys. Everything that
you need will be there. So I did a five
part blog series on going into her solo season, and
so this particular one is embracing the ending of a season.
This is the last part. So I'm wrapping this part up,
but you can go back. I really really really recommend
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you going back and starting from the beginning. So the
first part two it was going into her solo season
deeper than her singleness, and then part two was signs
you may need to go into a season of soliditude.
Part three was the end of an era that's er
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ego resentment and attitude, letting go of ego resentment and attitude.
And part four was the Black Girl Day Off. And
so now we are in part five, which is embrace
the end of a season. So we're wrapping this up
and again we're just talking about just go back and
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check those previous posts out because I'm Todd break everything down.
I'm breaking down what your season of solitude means, what
it might look like, how you know you might need
one signs and things like that, and we're just we
go through it and it's just broken down. It's a
really good series. I'm super proud of it, and I
want you guys all to to check that out. I
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think you'll find some really good gyms. So let's go
ahead and let's get through this. Let's try to go
ahead and get through this blog breakdown. I'm sorry for
rambling so much before even getting to this. I have
so much to catch you guys up on. That's what
I get for being gone for so long, all right,
So anyways, let's go ahead and let's do this, all right,
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Embrace the end of a season. So, just like with
most things in life, there comes an ending. The ending
will look different for everyone. Some will be unexpected, some
will be scary, but some endings will also be beautiful
and necessary. When a season of your life ends, this
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is a pivotal time in your world. It means that
you are inevitably going to begin a new season and
hopefully a new and more refreshed outlook on your future,
whether that be short or long term. As you process
through this solo season, you should have experienced multiple moments
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of reflection, moments where you were faced with really deep
diving into your thoughts on certain areas of your life,
and hopefully you were able to resurface with clarity if
you come to a point where you believe you are
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ready to end a phase or cycle or a season
as you've known it to be. I think it's always
helpful and self serving to ask yourself some self reflecting questions, right.
You always like every time we go through something like
anytime we're changing things, or anytime we want to enter
into something new or we want to phase into something new,
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we need to reflect about it, right. We don't want
to just dive into something without really thinking about things.
So self reflective questions. As a season or a cycle ends,
how am I feeling about this ending? How are your
feelings like? It's very important for you to round up
with yourself and just acknowledge exactly how you're feeling. Where
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are you at mentally and emotionally, if there were any
deep feelings of turmoil or confusion or frustration throughout this season,
have you since been able to resolve those feeling So,
anything that you were feeling that felt uncomfortable, have you
figured out a way to work through those things while
you sat in that moment, while you were in this
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season of solitude, anycomfortable moments that you may have, because
they will come, they will come. You may question yourself,
you may be unsure, you may be feel in a
certain type of way. So any discomfort in the moment
or in the space that you were in, you need
to figure out how you can maneuver through those things
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on your own. And when I say on your own,
I mean I don't mean that you have to get
through it, because you know there are other alternatives to
how you work through things, and you may need to
connect with someone else, like a third party, to talk
about some of your feelings or things like that. But
whatever it is, that's the point of that, how are
you feeling like? You need to be able to circle
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up with yourself right, And then the next question that
you might want to ask is what have I learned?
No matter what the circumstances are there, should and will
always be lessons to learn from any process that we
go through. The key is to recognize them and learn
from them and find the value in them. So anything, okay,
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do y'all hear me, Anything that you go through there
is there should be a lesson somewhere instilled in that experience,
and it's your job. Especially when you're sitting in a
space of solitude and you're trying to sort things out
in your life, it is very important for you to
identify certain points. Right, So you recognize and you find
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those lessons and you learn from them. How do they
translate over into where you're at now? How can you
take those lessons or whatever you learned in that lesson
in that experience, the wisdom that you can extract from
that experience, how can you apply it going forward? Okay?
The next question that you can ask yourself is what
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changes for the better do I expect to come from this?
And that's very simple. What's the best possible outcome you
could achieve in this season? And did you achieve it? Remember,
your solo season is a season where you are supposed
to be reflecting, You were supposed to be having time
with yourself, you were supposed to be figuring out what
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you want and what you need for yourself in this
at this point in your life, and there has to
have been some positive to come from that. And so
that is what this self reflective question is, asking you
what was the best possible outcome when you just when
you went into when you decided that you needed to
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go into this season of solitude, you always knew that
there was going to be up here where you were
going to come out of it. Right, there's always like
the end of the tunnel, the end of the rold,
the end of the season, And so what was the
best possible outcome for you when you came out of it?
That means that everything that you attached to yourself going
through it before you got to the end of it,
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what's the best possible outcome and did you achieve it?
So you were acknowledging your accomplishments here, you were acknowledging yourself.
You are acknowledging what you've gone through, and that is
a very very important part of this process. And then
the next question to ask is how have I grown
through this season. It's extremely important that you're able to
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answer this question. The fruit of your labor in this
season is through growth. If you don't think you've grown
it all, should this season really end at this time?
So when you just coming out of a season, coming
out of a space where you feel like you need
to end something and start something new, where you feel like, Okay,
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maybe you have decided that you wanted to just be
single in this season, and then you get to a
space where you're like, Okay, I think that I'm ready
to start putting myself out there and start seeing what's
out They're what, you know, what I'm going to attract
into my life? What do I really want? But in
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order to do that, you should have, in some form
have grown through this process. And if you feel the
exact same way, if you're making the same decisions, because
everything is gonna shift, everything is gonna shift in this time,
you're not going to be making the same kind of decisions.
You're not going to want to do the same things.
Things are going to elevate for you. I guarantee it.
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And if things have not, then it is probably not
time for this season to end. You still got some
more work that you need to do. Really, there's more
that needs to be done. Remember that some endings are
forced and we have no choice but to find a
form of closure in them. But when we speak about
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the solo season and it's ending, we're actively making a
decision to come out of this period where we chose
keyword chose, where we chose to intentionally focus solely on ourselves,
and where healthy isolation should have allowed us to focus
on self care, self awareness, and self love. When we
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come out of our solo season, it is with hopes
that we have been able to prepare ourselves for the
next season, the next chapter, or hell, simply just the
next day, because we're gonna take things day by day.
We don't have to try to rush everything. We don't
have to try to rush through the process. We don't
have to try to pull everything out of the process.
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We just have to take things day by day. Remember,
this is your journey, so this is your pace. This
entire season was supposed to be about you and your needs.
You gave yourself the permission to be a little selfish,
but for a good cause. We should always be working
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to be the best version of ourselves, and some times
that requires you to go inward in order to find
out how to do that. Okay, so here's another self
reflective question. What personal goals am I going to now
prioritize for myself that I may have been putting off.
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Taking the intentional time to focus on how you are
showing up for yourself and the world will also allow
you to better define your own goals. Maybe there's been
some things in your life that you have set aside
because you've been dedicated to showing up for other parts
of your life as a priority. Things like your career,
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your family, your friends, relationships are all commonly seen as
a priority to us. And even though they are of importance,
the priority still has to always be you and your
self care. This is how you are able to or
into other people. This season was intentional. I cannot say
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that enough. This season was intentional. This season was about you.
This season was a time for you to be alone
and to be happy. This was not about trying to
tap into a feeling of loneliness, because you can't feel
lonely if you like who you are with. Did y'all
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catch that you cannot be lonely if you like who
you are alone with, which is yourself? And that is
what we're doing. We are growing to like things about ourselves.
We're growing to love things about ourselves, and we are
growing to embrace things about ourselves. So the solo season
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should not be a time where you should ever feel
any sense of loneliness. If you are, or if you do,
then you're not quite doing it right. Loneliness is not
allowed in your solo season. Now. Is it a natural
feeling that some of us may have, Yes, as we're
adjusting to a new process, a new season. Yeah, but
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it's not allowed there. So it just as fast as
that feeling comes in, I need you to be able
to show for that feeling right on out. Loneliness is
not allowed in your solo season. I hope that in
your season you're really able to gain clarity about your
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goals and your purpose and truly nurture them on your own. Okay,
here's the next self reflective question. How has this season
helped me to communicate and coexist with others? Now, Again,
even though this is a season of solitude, even though
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this is a season where we are focusing on ourselves,
this is still going to directly have an impact on
how you communicate with other people, how you show up
for other people, how you allow other people to show
up for you, how you set boundaries, how you just
move forward in your connections with other people. So, even
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though the solo season was designed to bring self fulfillment
into your life, it is still okay to acknowledge how
the season can and will have an impact on your
relationships with other people. You work on yourself for yourself,
but there is always an investment that you are making
into other relationships to show up in those connections fully
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and positively, and most importantly, as a more effective communicator.
To be able to effectively communicate to those that you
choose to die during this time plays a role in
this season as well. Did y'all catch that last part?
To be able to effectively communicate to those that you
choose it is a choice you are choosing in this season.
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You have a right to choose. To be able to
effectively communicate to those that you choose to dialogue with
during this time plays a role in this season as well.
Remember this is a season of healthy isolation, which means
that there may be some individuals that you will want
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to open up to on how you're actively working on yourself,
always keeping in mind that this is at your discretion.
So you guys, choose who you want to share anything
that you experience in your solo season, or you keep
it to yourself. Right, y'all still following me. I'm I'm
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getting to the end of this. We're wrapping this up
because I feel like I felt like I rambled too
much at the beginning, so I'm trying to go I'm
trying to get through this through this blog fairly fast.
For you, guys, let's talk about transparency and closure. So
for me, me personally, my personal solo season has been
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about healing, healing parts of my heart that were damaged,
and restoring the self love that was dissolved. In the process.
I recognized that I allowed a sense of loyalty to
everyone but myself to choose the narrative of my life,
and so choosing to go into a solo season has
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given me a different perspective of my life for the better.
Making that choice to go into a solo season, it
should empower you. It should empower you because you're literally saying,
I'm going into the season of solitude, and I'm planned
by my own rules. I'm writing this story, I'm writing
this chapter. I'm the director of this film. However you
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want to whatever you want to call it is, this
is how I'm managing this time and this space. Now
almost two years into my solo season. My ability to
create healthy boundaries for myself has been one of the
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most important aspects and lessons I could have learned. Did
y'all catch that part? My ability to create healthy boundaries
for myself has been one of the most important aspects
and lessons I could have learned healthy boundaries. I struggled
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with that. I struggled with that because that meant that
I let I always let the feelings of others or
the fear of missing something to control my mindset to
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a certain extent, right, But I was able to figure
out just in moving forward and in communicating with different
people how literally, that that's not something that I'm going
to be okay with. This is me talking to someone
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that you know, I'm not gonna be okay with this.
I'm not going to do this just simply stating what
the boundaries are and just embracing the fact that if
me setting my boundaries bothered someone that much, then that
that's on that person. So if you setting a boundary
for yourself, it's something that someone else can't seem to
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accept or have as a problem with, or doesn't want
to deal with, or seems to be bothered by, or
seems to be any type of way other than what
you want. What you want that to be, you don't
have to continue to occupy that space. Set your healthy
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boundaries where you see fit. So my ability to create
healthy boundaries for myself has been one of the most
important aspects and lessons I could have learned. With that
came a refreshed and revived sense of self love. I
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am relearning how to enjoy my own company, identify my
own needs, and gain uninterrupted clarity on what I want
the next few years of my life to embody. That
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last part, really, it really resonated with me as I
was writing it. When I was originally doing this blog,
I you know, it took me a minute to get
through this. It actually which when I when I write
a blog, it it I get it done the same day.
This particular one I w it. It took me a
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few days to complete it because I wanted to make
sure that I got my words delivered to you as
best as possible. But let's let's go back and I
and I need you guys to catch collect this gym too,
take this one with you too. With that came a
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refreshed and revived sense of self love. I am relearning
how to enjoy my own company, identify my own needs,
and gain uninterrupted clarity on what I want the next
few years of my life to embody. Wow. So my
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hope for the person reading this is that you are amazing.
You feel good. I hope that you are happy and
healthy and leveling up your self care indefinitely. I hope
that you have peace of mind and your well being
is intact. Should you feel as though you lack anything
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that you know you need for yourself, give yourself the
honor and the grace to retreat into a season of
solitude and embrace getting back to you. That's what we
need to do. And that's exactly what the Solo season
is about. It is about finding how to get back
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to you. It is about how life has been crazy
and so much has been going on, and there's so
many things that have been happening, and it's just like,
oh my god. And it is it is after that
that you may realize that you need a season to reset.
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You've been pulled this way and pulled that way and
all of your priorities involved everybody but yourself, and you
need to know what you need, what you want going forward.
You want to know what is next for me in everything,
in life and love and relationships, for careers, what is
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going to be next for me? So this solo season,
just writing, the doing the blog, I mean, just being
in this series. We're going to be in this series
until entry forty nine. So we have five more I
don't know why I couldn't think of that just now.
We have five more entries of the Solo season series
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and then we're going to start a new I don't
know if we're gonna do a new series or not.
I don't know. Well, I don't I know what we're
gonna talk about, but I don't know if I'm gonna
make it into a a series or not. But we'll see.
I'm not We're not gonna talk about that just yet.
But yeah. So it's it's about getting back to you.
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It's about embracing you and who you are, where you are,
what you need, what you want, how you're fulfilled, how
you're unfulfilled. All of those things are allotted to you,
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They are owed to you. You just have to be
the one to initiate it right. You gotta get it going.
I I like I was saying, like writing this, doing
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this particular blog series, this five part series, this was
very personal to me, from the beginning to the end.
It was very personal. So I definitely recommend this for
I recommend, excuse me you going into your solo season.
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If you are in need of intentional pouring into your
cup by yourself, you doing it because it starts there.
Anybody else can tell you all of these amazing things.
They can do a lot of amazing things for you,
and but it is really it starts with how you
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feel about yourself, how you love yourself, how you handle yourself,
how you carry yourself, what you need, identifying those needs,
all of those things. It starts with you. And so
I want you to take what you are old. You
are old, time off, you are old, a period to
rest you are old self reflectory moments. So yeah, that
(47:19):
is that wraps up that blog. I want you guys
to really check that out. I want you guys to
head over to the link that's in the description notes
sharing pink Promos dot com and you will be able
to find this particular blog entry and you'll be able
to go back and read the previous four. I really
(47:41):
enjoyed writing this particular blog blog series. It was very
it can I resonated really well with this. So I'm
really hoping that you guys will be able to like
listen to this. And that's the whole purpose of me
doing the blog breakdowns is because, like you know, I
want to I want to tell you guys where my
head was at when I wrote certain things. I want
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to give you a little bit more of my emotion
when I you know, when I go through these blog
break now or I want you to know where my
head was at when I write these things. So again,
that was very That was very Uh that was that
was a good series, So check it out. So I
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really want to try to get through. Let's see, oh
our December. Let's okay, So before I get into the
journal prompt for this week, and we're gonna I'm gonna
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make this all the line, so we're not gonna do
something separate, but let's talk about the December journal challenge.
So if you're following me like on Instagram, you will
see that I have been doing a December journal challenge.
So this is a thirty one day Challenge. We are
now at day twenty eight, and well it would technically
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be if you're depending on when you're tuning into this,
it would be past that. But as I'm recording this,
it is day twenty eight. And so the December Journal Challenge.
The theme for this particular challenge is self care awareness.
Last time it was self love notes. We're doing self
care awareness and we are doing thirty one days of
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journal prompts. Shout out to everybody that has been engaging
with the with the challenge that has been giving me feedback.
And most importantly, if you're actually doing your journaling at
home and you're following along with this, shout out to you,
I'm so proud of you. This challenge is designed to
help you build a habit of journaling because I know
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that it can be hard, and so I felt like
after thirty one days, if you know, if you have
to be intentional about it, but it should have helped
you to develop more of a habit when it came
down to like writing and things like that. So and
I've just been enjoyed joining like putting the content out
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there for the December Journal prompt and so I'm gonna
go ahead and give you, guys what our next one
is going to be. Our next one is going to
be what would be your personal mental health mantra? And why?
So that will be our December twenty ninth journal challenge.
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So you heard it here first before I even put
it on the social media platforms. So again, that journal
prompt for day twenty nine is what would be your
personal mental health mantra? And why So? I'm gonna go
ahead and get out of here. Now. Before we get
out of here, I got a couple of shout outs.
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I felt like I might want to do kind of
some shout outs at the end of the entry. But
I have two very specific shout outs that I want
to give, and I want to give a little bit
of background into these particular shout outs. So the first
one that I want to shout out is Dominique Glisten.
She is a published author and she has a collection
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called the Pink Trilogy. I do have one of her
books that I bought a few years back, her first one,
which is Pink Canvas, and she has two more that
go in the trilogy, and it is listen. It's some
How can I explain this? It is if she is
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a very young This young lady is a very sensual
and erotic type of right, and so I'm excited to
get into it. But this is gonna be this's gotta
be some exclusive content. I can't I can't put it
on the social media. This content and how we're gonna
break down and go through her trilogy is going to
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be exclusive content that you guys are gonna find on Patreon.
So there's another perk we're gonna get into that, and
I mean it's gonna get spicy over there in her sensuality. Okay,
it's gonna get spicy. So shout out to her for
completion of her her Pink trilogy. I can't wait to
get the other two, the other two books, so that
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I can go through that. It's gonna be that's gonna
be fun. I'm looking forward. I'm so excited about my Patreon,
you guys, I'm so excited to add this exclusive content
over there, and really really because that's I believe that
is really a good way to build up a community.
Obviously there's other ways, but I feel like that's really
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a good way to build community up. And so my
second shout out you guys have heard me talk about
her several times. Shatavia Johnson is a published author as well,
and she has a weight loss journey journal and it
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is a fifty two week journal. It is called Lose Weight,
Not Your Mind. I'm so excited about this when I
was just gifted this particular book by her, and I listen. So,
Shatavia is a certified holistic nutritionist. That's one thing about her.
So she is definitely certified to give this information. She
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does give her disclaimer to consult with your physicians and
things like that in the beginning before you start anything.
But she has an amazing journal. I can't wait. There's
so many different charts and things in there. You gotta
workout log in there, your breakfast, lunch, and dinner calendar
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when you're jogging. So much stuff, so much stuff that
she has in there for you to like follow along with.
And it's accountability in a journal is what I think
it is. And I love how I mean she she gives.
There's just so many there's just so many good little
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gems in here. She gives you fun ways to work
your brain, fun ways to sweat meal ideas your dudes
and don't don't. She has a lot of things in
this journal, so I'm excited to actually start working through
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this one and doing some content so that I can
share this with you. So shout out to Schatavia and
thank you again for all of your support. You guys,
I'm going to wrap this up. This is This is
a long entry, but I guess it's okay. It's technically
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under an hour. I just really try to make these
entries shorter than that. But I think I caught myself
rambling and given a lot of information in the beginning.
So but with that being said, you guys again, check
the show notes. The description notes for all of everything
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that I've mentioned will be down there. You'll be able
to find it. If you're tuning in on Apple Podcast,
if you're tuning in on another platform, it depending on
which one it is, you will see some of the information.
But outside of that, you will have to check out
my link tree and get all of those things from
(55:52):
the link tree. You know, you'll have to go through there,
and whatever it is that you're looking for, I will
have linked I'll have shay Tavia's Weight Loss Journey j
a journal which is a it's a perfect time to
grab her journal right, because we're getting ready to go
into a new year, and you know, typically that is
when a lot of people decide that they're gonna, you know,
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do their little New Year's resolutions and they want to
start working on way. And I happen to have my
hand up because I am one of those people. Okay,
I want to start getting my fitness together too, So
I'm excited to start going through that book and see
what I can work out. So anyways, you guys, thank
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you guys for coming back. Thank you guys for tuning in.
This has been a long awaited entry. I promise you
guys are going to do better with the spaces in
between the you know, hopefully it won't be another two
three full weeks before I do another entry. But I
can't make no promises. I can't make no promises. I can't.
So anyways, you guys, thank you so much. I love
(56:58):
you so much for tuning in. Thank you to everybody
who has shared the platform, spread the platform by word
of mouth, just anything that you've done to engage with me.
I appreciate you, guys. I'm going to wrap this up
and until next time, you guys, piece and blessings, let's
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do this. You're listening to the thoughts of a blog
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