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The Pressure to Create Balance Is Wearing You Out
When the Pressure to Create Balance Starts Wearing You Down
If you’ve been waking up every day feeling like you’re falling behind before the day even starts, this Support Pause is for you. So many Black women are carrying the pressure to “create balance,” even though our lives were never built to be balanced in the first place.
In this Pause, Shirl takks about the truth behind that pressure and what it looks like to stop chasing balance and start giving yourself a healthy portion instead. A portion that matches your capacity. A portion that honors the day you’re living. A portion that lets you breathe without guilt.
A lot of us have been carrying the pressure to create balance without even realizing it, and it’s exhausting.
If you’ve been stretched thin, overwhelmed, or questioning why balance keeps slipping through your hands, this is your reminder that nothing is wrong with you. You’re not coming up short. You’re choosing what’s real.
Take a moment. Take your portion. Let that be enough for today.
Take a moment. Take your portion. Let that be enough for today.
Got a story about what it’s cost you to be the strong one? We’re collecting real, lived stories for the Black Women Storytelling Series, and we want to hear yours.
Submit your story here → https://forms.gle/VsfFMjNjMt6eVLJp7
Come back every weekday for a new Support Pause — short, soul-soothing reflections made just for you.
About Shades of Strong®
Shades of Strong® is a space where Black women come to breathe, reflect, and reclaim strength without the struggle. Support Pauses are short, soulful reminders that you don’t have to carry it all alone. New episodes drop every weekday.
Resources to Support You:
Let’s Stay Connected:
Shirl is the creator of Support Languages™ and host of Shades of Strong® — a movement shifting the narrative from Strong Black Woman to Supported Black Woman™ through language, rest, and real support.
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By ShirlWhen the Pressure to Create Balance Starts Wearing You Down
If you’ve been waking up every day feeling like you’re falling behind before the day even starts, this Support Pause is for you. So many Black women are carrying the pressure to “create balance,” even though our lives were never built to be balanced in the first place.
In this Pause, Shirl takks about the truth behind that pressure and what it looks like to stop chasing balance and start giving yourself a healthy portion instead. A portion that matches your capacity. A portion that honors the day you’re living. A portion that lets you breathe without guilt.
A lot of us have been carrying the pressure to create balance without even realizing it, and it’s exhausting.
If you’ve been stretched thin, overwhelmed, or questioning why balance keeps slipping through your hands, this is your reminder that nothing is wrong with you. You’re not coming up short. You’re choosing what’s real.
Take a moment. Take your portion. Let that be enough for today.
Take a moment. Take your portion. Let that be enough for today.
Got a story about what it’s cost you to be the strong one? We’re collecting real, lived stories for the Black Women Storytelling Series, and we want to hear yours.
Submit your story here → https://forms.gle/VsfFMjNjMt6eVLJp7
Come back every weekday for a new Support Pause — short, soul-soothing reflections made just for you.
About Shades of Strong®
Shades of Strong® is a space where Black women come to breathe, reflect, and reclaim strength without the struggle. Support Pauses are short, soulful reminders that you don’t have to carry it all alone. New episodes drop every weekday.
Resources to Support You:
Let’s Stay Connected:
Shirl is the creator of Support Languages™ and host of Shades of Strong® — a movement shifting the narrative from Strong Black Woman to Supported Black Woman™ through language, rest, and real support.