Thriving while Black in systems designed for whiteness is hard. We must have a strong foundation supporting our sense of self, and we must engage in ongoing calibration, healing, and community care. Liberated Love Notes™ is a starting point for integrating self and community affirmations into your daily practices. Liberated Love Notes center the experiences of Black folks existing in white systems and speak to overcoming imposter syndrome, disrupting injected & internalized forms of oppression, embodying an abundance mindset and building a healthy racial identity. Tune in for a new episode every Monday wherever you listen to podcasts!
Brittany Janay reminds us of our inherent brilliance. She affirms that not only are we our ancestors’ wildest dream, we are a manifestation of their gifts, their resourcefulness, their brilliance. Brittany Janay shares a few historical and present day anecdotes as example of how Black people have and continue to share their brilliance in community…
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Brittany Janay affirms that our time is sacred and our own … and we don’t owe any more time nor patience to people and environments that do not serve our humanity. Brittany channels the words of our ancestor, James Baldwin, as he calls out the absurdity of requests for more time for progress. Brittany Janay…
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Brittany Janay is back this week with a timely affirmation, “Our Refusal is Divine.” She declares that we deserve to be unapologetic about our “no’s,” naming them as spiritual and our divine right. Brittany makes the connection to tennis player Naomi Osaka’s decision to prioritize her mental well-being and a recent story of a Black…
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Brittany Janay kicks off this episode with some announcements that relate to the topic of this week’s liberated love note: amplification and abundance mindset. She shows some love and shouts out a few Black women – IG tags in the show notes – and shares a story about how Liberated Love Notes ended up on…
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Brittany Janay shares her reflections on the power in REMEMBERING–remembering the richness of our history, our lineage, the stories and values of our parents, elders, ancestors. She shares ALL the feels she got after watching, “In our Mothers’ Gardens,” (IG: @inourmothersgardens) a documentary on Netflix directed by Shantrelle P. Lewis (IG: @apshantology). Brittany Janay names…
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Brittany Janay lifts up one of her intentions from the top of the year: to move and make decisions from a place of ease, not urgency (in other words, not feeling the need to DO THE MOST). This episode she does something different…a little less “challenging” and “unpacking” and a lotta more affirming. Inspired by…
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Brittany Janay picks up on last week’s episode and offers some related reflections around work, worth, and purpose. She shares her reflections on sayings like, “if you are walking in your purpose, it won’t feel like work,” or “if it is your purpose, you’ll do it for free,” and offers a reframe, affirming that we…
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Brittany Janay shares her personal reflections on productivity, work, and worth. She offers a delineation between who we we and what we do as model of self-love and disruption of internalized colonialism, capitalism, and anti-Blackness. Brittany draws from the wisdom of ancestors Audre Lorde and Lucille Clifton, and ends with an affirmation reminding us that…
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Brittany Janay shares a liberated love note of accountability, challenging the the injected forms of oppression that suggest Black bodies are only worthy or deserving IF. Our worthiness needs no qualification. She shares that we must reject those lies and calls on us to affirm our inherent worthiness despite the broader social order or the…
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Brittany Janay shares her timely and vulnerable reflections upon learning of the killing of Daunte Wright. She REMEMBERS the words of Fannie Lou Hamer, “America is desperately ill, and man is on the critical list,” and offers a Liberated Love Note of affirmation as we grieve and mourn: We are not deficient. We are not…
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