Speaker 1: Hey, beautiful souls, Welcome to with Love Tasha. I'm Tasha Bradley,
Speaker 1: and this is your safe space for truth, transformation and
Speaker 1: the kind of self love that changes everything. Yes, it
Speaker 1: changes everything. Self love is so underrated and we're here
Speaker 1: to change the narrative. Welcome to the tribe and the club.
Speaker 1: This is your self love weekly reminder that you are amazing,
Speaker 1: that it's time for you to start betting on yourself.
Speaker 1: It's time for you to bet on yourself. It's time
Speaker 1: for you to root for yourself. It's time for you
Speaker 1: to cheer yourself on, and it's time for you to
Speaker 1: love your damn self. Okay, that's what we're on all
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty six, becoming the better versions of ourselves.
Speaker 1: I'm here today. This is pretty much to remind this
Speaker 1: is something that's going to uplift you all. And if
Speaker 1: you've been in a little funk lately, if you've been
Speaker 1: in the dark spot, the like a. I don't want
Speaker 1: to say depression, I hate that word, but sometimes we
Speaker 1: are depressed. You know. I'm benings to us and we're
Speaker 1: trying to fight our way out of this dark place.
Speaker 1: Because I've been that way for a few months now,
Speaker 1: and I'd like to share that with you all with
Speaker 1: a little encouragement here that first off, I'm gonna send
Speaker 1: you off a virtual flower of virtual hug. This is
Speaker 1: how I'm gonna start the show off. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: in your ear like in and out because this is
Speaker 1: a really quick, quick story that I want to share
Speaker 1: with you all from my personal experience and just like
Speaker 1: I said, encouraging you all. Sometimes yes there's a message,
Speaker 1: but sometimes I have to be real with you all
Speaker 1: and transparent and what I'm going through in my real life.
Speaker 1: And for the last few months, it's been when I
Speaker 1: say a battle, it's been a battle. It's been times
Speaker 1: when I wanted to throw in the towel that I'm over,
Speaker 1: not with the podcast, but just with things in my life,
Speaker 1: with my finances, the job situation. It's just been one
Speaker 1: thing after the other. So ah, I just want to
Speaker 1: come up for some air and I'm seeing the light
Speaker 1: at the end of the tunnel. It's been a really
Speaker 1: dark tunnel for like I said, months, since like September
Speaker 1: of last year, I've really been just battling, battling, battling.
Speaker 1: Only those really close to me. A few of my
Speaker 1: siblings and a few of my cousins know what I've
Speaker 1: been going through. But you know, it's just a big
Speaker 1: shout out to everyone who's been there for me, especially
Speaker 1: Carrying and Booby. I love you guys immensely and beyond, like,
Speaker 1: thank you all for going above and beyond to assist
Speaker 1: me in every single way that you guys have possibly
Speaker 1: assisted me. Just opening up your wallet, opening up your love,
Speaker 1: always a phone call away, for encouraging words, and just
Speaker 1: you know, saying, hey, you got to keep fighting, don't
Speaker 1: give up. You know, Karen, thank you for letting me
Speaker 1: know God is in control. Booby, thank you for letting
Speaker 1: me know that you're never too old. You can always
Speaker 1: learn something to not be afraid. So, you know, all
Speaker 1: of those things and all the encouraging words just really
Speaker 1: really touch me. I love you all. But this flower
Speaker 1: and this virtual hook it is for you, for all
Speaker 1: the silent battles you fought and the strength no one
Speaker 1: sees when I say strong is all. I know, that's it,
Speaker 1: because some days I was just like why, why why?
Speaker 1: I'm just ready to give up. I'm just tired tired
Speaker 1: of being disappointed. I'm tired of trying to figure it
Speaker 1: out and I thought I had it right and it
Speaker 1: just didn't go the way I thought things would go.
Speaker 1: So if you're going through things like that, it will
Speaker 1: get better. We have to hold on. If you have
Speaker 1: your faith, you know, stay prayed up. And if you're
Speaker 1: not into faith and you just know things are going
Speaker 1: to work out, that's okay too. Whichever whatever floats your
Speaker 1: boat here, you know. But I just want us all
Speaker 1: to know that sometimes we just need to be reminded
Speaker 1: of this too shall pass. Things will happen, and we
Speaker 1: will We'll make it through. And I want you all
Speaker 1: and I want to thank you all for listening from
Speaker 1: beginning to end each episode, so make sure that you
Speaker 1: finish out the episode. Thank you to all of you
Speaker 1: all who are constantly pushing play and you're listening from
Speaker 1: the beginning of the show to the end of the show.
Speaker 1: This is going to be a very short show, so
Speaker 1: hang in there right, make sure you stay in And
Speaker 1: thank you all for answering the polls. You guys are awesome.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for telling a friend to tell a friend,
Speaker 1: and thank you all for being a part of this
Speaker 1: self love tribe, for loving yourselves and embracing self love.
Speaker 1: And bragging on yourself, feeling good about yourself and admitting
Speaker 1: when things just aren't going well as I'm doing today,
Speaker 1: and I ran across this that I'd like to share
Speaker 1: what you are because this is pretty much what I
Speaker 1: am going through Every night I sit back and think
Speaker 1: about my life. Have you all been doing that lately
Speaker 1: or is this just something that you do just all
Speaker 1: the time. Not lately, But you know, at the end
Speaker 1: of the night, when you're sitting back and you're going
Speaker 1: over your day and you're thanking God, if you thank
Speaker 1: God for you know, his gratitude, your gratitude towards him,
Speaker 1: for what your day has been, like, what you've encountered,
Speaker 1: and the things that you're trying to become stronger in
Speaker 1: and things that you're trying to accomplish and just all
Speaker 1: those things. So every night, when you sit back and
Speaker 1: you think about life, you think what I did right?
Speaker 1: What did I do right? What did I do right?
Speaker 1: What do I have to finish, what do I have
Speaker 1: to fix? What moves I need to make next? You know,
Speaker 1: these are some of the things that go on at night,
Speaker 1: like should I have done this? Like this? Was this
Speaker 1: the correct way of doing this? Of saying this, I
Speaker 1: can become better at this. I can. I'm a little
Speaker 1: stronger in this area. I'm weak over here. I need
Speaker 1: to fix this. I need to work on that. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's just like a never end in battle. And then
Speaker 1: sometimes we're wondering what moves we have to make next?
Speaker 1: What's my next move? What's my next play? What does
Speaker 1: that look like for me? How am I gonna make
Speaker 1: it work? Am I gonna be successful at this? Is
Speaker 1: this going to work on my behalf for the embedterment
Speaker 1: of my life? You know it's just oh, just word
Speaker 1: words of encouragement to yourself, question after question, you know,
Speaker 1: self reflection, don't lie. As long as we're locked then
Speaker 1: to becoming better every single day, things are gonna work out.
Speaker 1: We just have to remember that we need to work
Speaker 1: on becoming better every single day. Like I said, what
Speaker 1: can I do? More of? What do I need to do?
Speaker 1: You know? Get rid of this, less of this, more
Speaker 1: of this, implement this, stay on the course, bet on yourself,
Speaker 1: don't throw in the towel, don't fold. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: hard times, but it's okay, you know, strong as all
Speaker 1: we know, they'll be battle after battle. That's just what
Speaker 1: life does. Sometimes everything runs smoothly and life is beautiful.
Speaker 1: I look and I go, damn, some people do they
Speaker 1: really just have it so simple and easy, or you
Speaker 1: know they're hard times. Not everybody wear their heart on
Speaker 1: their sleeves. Not everybody's gonna be breaking down crying every
Speaker 1: time you see them, or have a sad story or
Speaker 1: gonna tell you, oh, I've gone through this. I've gone
Speaker 1: through that. Like my mom said, nobody likes to dead
Speaker 1: be so a lot of us are masking what we're
Speaker 1: going through because you know, I'm gonna always smile, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna always appear to be happy. If you see me,
Speaker 1: You'll never know what I'm going through unless I've confided
Speaker 1: in you, and I don't do that often with folks.
Speaker 1: I'd rather not because I don't want people to see
Speaker 1: me coming and be like damn, there she goes, or
Speaker 1: see me calling and go oh lord, no, not again.
Speaker 1: You know, I just I don't want to be that friend.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be that family member, so I'm
Speaker 1: always holding on. I could be speaking to someone crying.
Speaker 1: I've recorded this podcast at times with tears rolling down
Speaker 1: my face, depending on different things, and just pray that
Speaker 1: it didn't sound you know, my voice didn't sound like
Speaker 1: what's going on with her? You know. And I've been
Speaker 1: at work at times where tears rolling down my eyes
Speaker 1: as I'm dealing with the customers that I'm dealing with.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's all types of ways that we
Speaker 1: can mask what we're going through, but at some point
Speaker 1: you have to be open. This is mine. I will
Speaker 1: saw moment to say, you know, it hasn't been easy,
Speaker 1: but I've been hanging in there. And you have to
Speaker 1: make it look good no matter what you're going through.
Speaker 1: You make that shit look good. You make it seem
Speaker 1: as though it's all okay. But it's not okay just
Speaker 1: to pretend things are okay because you do need an outlet.
Speaker 1: You have to speak to someone, you have to journal,
Speaker 1: you have to you know, confess to someone this is
Speaker 1: what I'm going through, because sometimes holding everything inside and
Speaker 1: bottling all up isn't good. That's how I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people get to the edge and they just
Speaker 1: like it's over for me. And I'm not suggesting that
Speaker 1: for anyone to just hold on without sharing. There are
Speaker 1: a few people that you should be able to trust
Speaker 1: in your life, and if you don't have folks that
Speaker 1: you can trust, then you need to get a new
Speaker 1: set of folks around you. You should be able to
Speaker 1: go to your you know, your family, extended family, whether
Speaker 1: it be your siblings, your parents, your cousins, childhood friends
Speaker 1: that you've grown up with, somebody that you could really trust,
Speaker 1: church members if there's pastor you know, if you have
Speaker 1: a church family with someone, their hotlines now that you
Speaker 1: can call and just talk to a stranger and just
Speaker 1: let it out. You know, life is overwhelming. Everything isn't
Speaker 1: gonna appear to be perfect, or it won't be perfect
Speaker 1: in our lives. And that's okay. There's gonna be times
Speaker 1: when we're gonna be fighting and fighting fighting, We're gonna
Speaker 1: look back and that's our testimony that whoo, when I
Speaker 1: went through this, when I tell you there was some dark,
Speaker 1: dark days and then the sun was shining and everything
Speaker 1: was working out, everything was turning around and working in
Speaker 1: my favor. But I stood in the paint and I
Speaker 1: didn't throw in the towel. So if you needed this motivation, encouragement,
Speaker 1: if you've just recently started a new job, lost a job, relocated,
Speaker 1: thinking of relocating, you know, end of the relationship, no
Speaker 1: matter what lovers or you know, marriage and family member,
Speaker 1: just anything that just wasn't good for you, and that
Speaker 1: was just you have to let go. Sometimes sometimes we're
Speaker 1: not what people need, They're not what we need, you know,
Speaker 1: so you have to just say this isn't working. And
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. I'm okay what's starting over. The
Speaker 1: beauty of life is every single day we get to
Speaker 1: start over. And I have to tell myself that today
Speaker 1: can be much different than yesterday. Today will be different
Speaker 1: than what tomorrow may bring. But I'm gonna give it
Speaker 1: my alle I'm going to be positive. I'm going to
Speaker 1: look forward to amazing things happening for me. To me,
Speaker 1: we can't throw in the towel. It's just a fourth
Speaker 1: month in the year and we have what is that,
Speaker 1: eight more months to go, and in the next eight
Speaker 1: months we could be sitting in a different position ending
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six going who I made it. I made
Speaker 1: it and it all worked out for me. Everything has
Speaker 1: changed life. The way we start the ear, the way
Speaker 1: you start the year isn't necessarily how we'll end the year.
Speaker 1: Just remember that. But we have to stay persistent, we
Speaker 1: have to stay positive. We have to surround ourselves with
Speaker 1: folks who are going to cheer for us the way
Speaker 1: we're cheering for ourselves, and just stay and the knowing
Speaker 1: of knowing that it's going to work out. Everything's going
Speaker 1: to be all right, Everything is going to be all right.
Speaker 1: I hope you all needed this motivation because I needed
Speaker 1: to get that off my chests. And also I'd like
Speaker 1: to send love all the way to the heavens and
Speaker 1: the sky. Another reason why I'm going through it this
Speaker 1: week is because on you know, April thirteenth, which is
Speaker 1: next Monday, is the day my baby got her wings Jass,
Speaker 1: and I've been in my feelings, you know how that
Speaker 1: is when we're grieving and healing and staying strong and
Speaker 1: pushing through and you know, just going through all those
Speaker 1: emotions and ah, they say, I'm not okay, but I'll
Speaker 1: be okay. I know all it's going to work out
Speaker 1: for me, and I hope all works out for you.
Speaker 1: Like I said, if you needed this motivation to say,
Speaker 1: everybody's going through something and you're not alone, and how
Speaker 1: you're feeling, things will get better. They most for surely
Speaker 1: will get better. Okay, believe in that that was all
Speaker 1: I had to say today because, like I said, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to get that off my chest. I also
Speaker 1: want you to know that With Love Tasha podcast isn't
Speaker 1: just a show. It's a movement. It's a reminder, it's
Speaker 1: a mirror. Thank you for every download, thank you for
Speaker 1: listening to the show from beginning to end. Thank you
Speaker 1: for every share, thank you for every message, thank you
Speaker 1: for answering the polls, and thank you for this episode
Speaker 1: helped me. You know, there'll be little hiccups along the
Speaker 1: way here, but hopefully my point gets across to you
Speaker 1: all that this too shall pass. We're going to make it.
Speaker 1: We're going to see the light at the end of
Speaker 1: this dark tunnel. And bad times don't last forever, neither
Speaker 1: the good times. They're gonna be good times bad times,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be us. We're gonna be fighting through
Speaker 1: to get back to the good times and have an
Speaker 1: amazing spring and spring time. How could we not be
Speaker 1: in a good movies. You understand things have to change,
Speaker 1: but I love you all more importantly, love your damn self.
Speaker 1: Don't forget the polls. At the end of the show,
Speaker 1: thank you for telling a friend to tell a friend
Speaker 1: about the show, and I just love you all. I
Speaker 1: love you all for hanging in there with me, for
Speaker 1: pushing play, and for telling a friend to tell a friend. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't forget to love your damn self and surround yourself
Speaker 1: with people that love you. One love