June Theme

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June’s theme is about decompressing/relieving stress, or if you are from East Philadelphia born and raise — chillin’ out, maxin’, relaxin’ all cool. It’s natural for us to reserve relaxation for the summer. We’ve been conditioned to behave this way since we were four years of age. Yet we need to learn that we can’t hold onto stress and wait for the “perfect moment” to invest in ourselves and relieve ourselves from the stress in our life.

As you saw last Friday, BGF had to announce that we wouldn’t be posting our typical Friday content. In part, this was because we were giving ourselves permission to deal with higher-level stuff. Helping you all navigate college is important to Krista and Ayrielle, however, we can’t help you if we needed to step back and help ourselves. Ayrielle does want to take this time to share her appreciation for all of you during her time of need and your understanding for pulling back from the blog and social media posts last week.

Pulling back is one way to deal with stress. It’s not recommended every time you have a stressful moment, but we hope this month we can share with you different ways to deal with different levels. We should give you the first content about decompressing this Friday, and we will follow up with the delayed blog about Purdue on Saturday. As always 2 pm eastern.

Cheers friends

-BGF