your earthy black girl

Sanaa talks about how Black women often forget their own strength and beauty. Let this video be a reminder to stop sleeping on yourself. You are everything, you are enough, and you deserve all the good things that are coming your way.

Sanaa talks about how healing has become a buzzword recently and instead of enjoying life people obsess over healing… as if we were broken to begin with.

Sanaa talks about how we depress and stress ourselves by thinking about the past and future respectively. Neither of these exist all we have and need is the present moment and if we realized this it would alleviate a lot of unnecessary suffering we cause ourselves.

Sanaa talks about how often people think they need to be 100% healed before they get into a new relationship or new job. However, she emphasizes the importance of letting that experience fuel your hurt and healing instead of just sitting around trying to accumulate “healedness” that will never be put into practice.

Sanaa talks about how we are all eating in each other’s character development and how realizing this can help one not take actions against them as personally.

Sanaa talks about how easy it is when you are trying to develop yourself or going through a break up to hate yourself or what you’re feeling at the moment. Instead, you have to rise above these big feelings and the current state that you were in and love yourself into evolution versus hating yourself into change. Similar to you have to feel out your emotions instead of push them down or else they’...

Sanaa talks about the importance of loving your limiting beliefs into evolution during manifestation, rather hating them into change which is less effective.

Sanaa talks about how she’s been working through her most recent breakup and what that experience has taught her and shown her.

Sanaa talks about the normalization of hookup culture and being nonchalant.

Sanaa talks about why she stopped being positive. Similar to the body neutrality over body positivity movement, she shares how embracing both positive and negative emotions with no judgement has been better in the long run.

Sanaa talks about the mixed emotions of being a senior: sadness, joy, nervousness, excitement. However, as she “vents” she comes to realize that as sad as senior year and graduation is, it’s a blessing and a stepping stone into the new chapter of her life.

Sanaa talks about her hair journey AGAIN and how it’s been transformed and continued with her combing out her locs. She uses examples and shares the overarching theme that confidence is a never ending journey that has ebs and flows throughout life.. one that she’s still navigating herself.

Sanaa is back… again.. but she talks about how she wants this podcast to be a sense of accountability. She feels as though she’s a “jack of all trades” master of none and so this podcast (her newfound hobby) will help motivate her audience but her as well. Speaking of motivate her audience, she does a check in for her fellow seniors and lets them know they aren’t alone.

Sanaa talks about spiritual psychosis and how sometimes in our journey for self improvement we can get wrapped up in thinking we are broken things to be fixed.

Sanaa talks about her experience being masculinized recently after loccing up her hair and how at first this made her heavily insecure, but has now caused her to have immense self love and deep rooted, unwavering confidence.

Sanaa talks about how she balances hobbies, extracurricular, school, friends/family etc. Although falling short sometimes she uses discipline physically (not violence..) and mentally to keep herself balanced.

Sanaa talks about why you’ll never FIND happiness but how gratitude and presence can help individuals to BE happy.

Sanaa talks about why it is important that even after someone does you dirty, not to be bitter or hateful because that person is operating off of their personal mental/emotional state.

Sanaa talks about her opinion on the “sprinkle sprinkle” lady and this generations obsession with “get backs”. She delves into how we can stay true to our true nature in spite of everyone else and spread love.

Sanaa talks about how she has dealt with a relationship in her life recently where she felt she outgrew the individual and had to cut them off. For anyone else who can relate, she shares how you can cope with the spiritual loneliness afterward.

Sanaa talks about her loc journey and what that has taught her about letting go of attachments and expectations of her hair.