What ✨ RADICAL ✨ Self Care Looks Like for Black Women | My 3 Faves

[@StephaniePerry]

Hey friends. 👋🏾 Are you already doing or planning to do any of these radical forms of self care? Let us know. 💗

[@Sherry-Quite-Contrary]

Hi Stephanie, I have to say this first. I just love you! I told you so tonight as this video started.☺️For the first time (since I’ve been rocking with you on KZbin almost 2 yrs now), I wanted to cry listening to you talk about how you intentionally built Community. I was in Public Service for almost 25 years before the suffering forced me to STOP and walk away without a plan. I was sick as a result of a toxic workplace and years of feeling overwhelmed, overlooked, harassed and misrepresented. The Universe heard my internal groans and confused cries, though; and I am truly grateful. Loneliness walks with me and I’m noticing it more as I get older. A Community of similar and like-minded and spirited Black Women - I would love to exist and connect within a little group of sisters out of the larger group. Introversion Guru here.👋🤭 AND I’d be so happy to hang out with you sometime, in CR, maybe. I’m easing my way ova there.😂 Anyway, longest comment ever…lol Thank you for being you, Stephanie. You mean so much to so many of us.❤ Sherry, Bahamas Berry

[@KindaJessWellness]

Yes, currently a work in progress. I needed this today, thank you ❤

[@abimbolaiyun8575]

The people who praise you for being exhausted are not the same people who’ll praise you for wanting to rest 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃

[@woman1005]

Hard work is not my purpose 👏👏👏 💅 👠 I felt this in my spirit ❤️

[@StephaniePerry]

💗 💗

[@BlackPositivityChallenge]

"YOU CANT MANI💅🏾 PEDI YOUR WAY TO THE BETTER/THE GOOD".. 🎯💯🖤💯🎯

[@JourneywithMAMAZURI-hb8nr]

Girl! Speak on it!!! My husband is in construction and has gone four, five months at a time out of work, while I have destroyed my body working as a nurse, two jobs. Our last child just turned 19, and our youngest son and her are both in college. Finally thought I could rest, and was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. NO, NO, NO! This is and will not be the end of my story! Told my grown kids, split the mortgage four ways, and figure it out. On my way to Costa Rica.😅

[@DrCrystalHarris]

So proud of you for prioritizing yourself. Praying for your recovery and a great new chapter in Costa Rica

[@gladyswj9968]

Godspeed 🕊

[@Refreshing_Words]

Sending you love and light. Go and LIVE!❤

[@dr.johnson007]

My God is a healer! I wish you health and wealth. ❤

[@dday3322]

💜💜💜🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@toniwilliams2441]

The fact that I am 41 watching this and quit my Job and a Hospital pharmacy tech working graveyard shift. I am being spoken to in so many ways! I'm all ears 👂🏾

[@StephaniePerry]

Oh wow Toni! Hello from the future! It's wonderful over here. 💗 💗

[@iamthediapora]

Big congrats

[@myimperfectdiary890]

Stephanie, as a black man in America, this is the very thing I needed to hear today to validate my feelings. I purchased an apartment in Egypt and working on leaving america

[@Ms.Jamieh297]

🎉❤😊Congrats to you, my brutha!!! Peace, blessings and safekeeping and new life beginnings to you in Egypt 👏

[@HeatherICreateMyPath]

I moved around the world for most of my life by being in the military and then working for the federal government. I truly think the American "dream" doesn't exist in the US for us. And it's not just about money. It is also about being respected, and seen as a decent, whole human being. I retired early and chose Mexico as my home. I will maintain my US citzenship because I've earned Social Security and plan to take it as soon as I can but my home/heart is not in the US. I've found the "American Dream" outside of the US and hope many more will do the same.

[@StephaniePerry]

That's exactly right. If we're not seen as fully human, nothing else matters. Thank you for sharing your experiences on your channel Heather. 💗

[@abimbolaiyun8575]

It’s not about money. It’s about being respected. Wheeeew!! Say that again.

[@MrMrzLPC]

I went on disability feb 2023 and have been out since. I am 57 and have decided my husband and I will be moving to Portugal in 2025. doing a scouting trip to Portugal in June. Being off I had the opportunity to write and publish a book, start a KZbin channel and coaching biz. I feel more accomplished in this past yr than I have in my over 35 yrs of working in corp America .

[@GoldaaSmith]

Congratulations on this journey and I believe you have many more accomplishments coming!

[@agelessbeautee5.04]

I work as little as possible…..period

[@eternalabundance39]

Me too.

[@Itsthetruth360]

I look the other way.

[@sabrinamadison8769]

wow. In tears watching this. 49 years and I feel so lost. I have always thought the US government has never cared about its people. I packed my bags and have been moving around to see other countries. Two bags laptop and backpack Wow. so glad I am not alone

[@kimnewsom6640]

Good morning 🌞. I left my FT job six and a half months ago. I was sad and heavy in the beginning, but knew it was the best decision I made.

[@JasenomadeTV]

Hard work is definitely not my purpose. I thank God for you and this community. Today, I am able to push back against all the pressure put on me. ❤ I’m planning my first 1 year sabbatical and can't wait.

[@camiathomeyoutube]

Yep! Moving abroad was a form of rest for me. Because of you, Stephanie, I retired myself at the age of 31 last year. Now, in living in another country not worried about work, and doing whatever I want. I was even able to create my KZbin channel because of this, where I encourage others to live life on their terms. Thank you, Stephanie🫶🏿🥹 because I wouldn't have this life now if it wasn't for you and your videos

[@Luvurselffirst]

now subscribed to your channel. Stephanie echo's my sentiments regarding working or not working and no longer living in a country funding a genocide. my income is tied to my job and so is my healthcare. costa rica seems like a good idea so did panama and mexico until i learned about what's happening with the Haitians

[@kerenshantey8073]

I love your hair, this is ONE of your looks.

[@StephaniePerry]

Thank yooouu! 💗

[@ThrivingNotDying]

Yes, yes and yes! I'm currently looking for a fully remote job so I can frolick world wide. I was also underemployed for years. More so because of health reasons and it was amazing. I jumped back into full time work and immediately regretted it.

[@nylorac1984]

The biggest concept that stood out to me was the entire theme of rest. I was once part of a religion that heavily focused on honoring the Sabbath. I think when it comes to health and wellness rest is so underrated. I think a lot of Western Society has found ways to work more with the technological advances instead of finding ways to truly incorporate rest. Rest is seen as something for the ill, or the weak versus in understanding that it is vital to all people to thrive. ❤

[@LisaSoulLevelHealing]

Im bringing my 7 year old to france. All of the pubs i go to have children and said i can bring mine. They are integrated in society. Ill update on my channel about the experience, but being a single mom doesnt mean isolation outside of the united states. Im learning and moving away from individualism. Very nice video. I hope more black women do it before it becomes trendy so they can get settled.

[@Nacole_Lashoun]

❤❤❤ Yes radical to self care!! Former overworked nurse here, and yes to investing in yourself is worth it !!❤❤

[@msakeeba]

I’ve been so inspired by watching your channel. I’ve wanted to leave US since I visited Portugal in 2016. You pushed me, and I’ve got my one way ticket in October!

[@rosechambers1844]

I am so delighted to have accidently found you on utube, I was feeling like a black woman living on a lonely Island

[@deirdrejones7107]

I interested in all three. I am currently looking at work visa options. I want to take a month off to travel more. I realized that aging in the US is not a thing for single childless no family individual.

[@Kozette007]

I understand. Furnished apartments are convenient but I'm ready for my own decorations. It's time.

[@StephaniePerry]

It's time! 💗

[@DenyceGartrell]

The same people who like to see you exhausted, are not the same people who want to see you rest. WHEW that was loaded! As I am in the beginner's stage of embarking upon this journey, I have a lot of research to do. I want to learn what countries Black women who travel solo have had the most favorable experiences, and the best places for seniors. I'm getting my funds together to start this journey hopefully this year, so more information on the inexpensive locations that you mentioned would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for inspiring us in so many ways, Stephanie!!!

[@PS-mt5rp]

That's so true any job takes your time

[@adevineartist]

That view does deserve a thumbs up! 😍👍🏾

[@MsPeggyCruise411]

Where are you settling in Costa Rica? A US passport❤ 🇺🇸 has gotten me into countries without a visa. I am enjoying retirement. I worked my but off‼️It was a real stressorrrr. I ran three businesses. I gained and loss 120 pounds😮 I am now enjoying the fruits of my labor now💃🏾🤸🏾‍♂️🥂🛩️⛴️✈️🚢 🎉❤ ✅ However, I may require your services depending on the 🗳️ election results‼️ I will look for your videos❤🌸💝Today is 5/19. My great-grandmother used to rock me in her rocking chair. Watching you rock is very relaxing. 🤘🏽 rock on😄

[@DrCrystalHarris]

You look fabulous today. I’m celebrating this week. I’m counting down to retirement and everyone at work knows it. My career break is just around the corner. It’s opening minds to new ways of being.

[@AmysExquisiteGifts]

This video just really broke me down in tears. I’ve been saying this for months and no one around me gets it. I’m just not meant to work for someone else and only work for my whole life and I know if I didn’t have everyone else’s noise I would be just fine with how my life is. But no one gets its. I keep saying if all of the ppl who claim to be in my corner would put half as much energy into me living my best life according to my own terms as they do encouraging me to work some whack job the results would be a lot better for me the person they claim to support and love. However, I am at a point where I realize I cannot expect others to conform to what I need them to be to be happy. I am responsible for me and it’s up to me to shut the noise down. It has just felt so lonely. I know this is an older video and I hope the groups you named seagull around because I am definitely going to seek them out. Thank you for this video.

[@jaiyabyrd4177]

🌿🌿Hi Stephanie. It's so fantastic that you are back in your home having fun and working in the most advantageous manner. I Love this Channel. Thank you for sharing this information with us Foundational Black American Women. God Bless You 🌺🌷🌺🌷 Residency in Costa Rica is coming👍🏾

[@StephaniePerry]

Thank you so much Jaiya! 💗

[@monharris28]

the sabbatical really hit home with me. i teach at a community college and always work during the summer. i live alone. this past summer, i took off--i was exhausted. now im thinking about taking another summer off so it's not a one deal thing--taking off was very good for me--moving at a slower pace without anything to do (no grading, no emailing students) was so good for me and now im hesitant to return to working during the summer even though im trying to build my emergency fund. i think if i teach this summer i may only teach two classe...even still i don't feel like doing anything.

[@Skinny-Fries]

thank you stephanie , you have helped me reimagine my life

[@valdamitraanderson2714]

Yes, this is my plan! Saving for it now.

[@terashaking4119]

Great colors Stephanie! Your lipstick and top color look great.

[@StephaniePerry]

Awww thanks so much Terasha!! 💗

[@kiandraplummer2095]

And the color 😍 ❤

[@PS-mt5rp]

I need all of that

[@younkairamzah8380]

OMG, Stephanie, I have been a silent listener now for at least two years. I appreciate your channel so much! My future career break is 3 years away, and I'm so excited about this future! Thank you for making this normal because it's necessary. I am also making friends with like-minded people. Self-care 🙌🙌🙌

[@PS-mt5rp]

I'm ready to put it into action

[@ninawestlake14]

Hey, Steph. I've been watching your content for over a year now. I love it! I've never felt that struggle and excessive labor was part of life. I actually detest it to be quite frank. I would love to get out of it completely, however housing is my main problem. Has been all my life. Not everyone can house sit for reasons out of their hands and i haven't found my millionaire loving hubby yet(i'm dead serious about that😅). So....yes. I mean, working to only afford rent and then get by until the next check is just evil imo. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Also, i sincerely want to live where there's less blacks as thry are the most petty and toxic. They pick on you for literally everything. It's sickening.

[@OrdinaryGreatnessTrashTalk]

Omg I'm so so interested in it all 31 years I'm so ready for radical self care

[@oodatooitis6714]

Seeing this video has encouraged me in a time that I'm struggling to rediscover my own purpose overall. Thank you for sharing this.

[@virtualcreativecollaborations]

♥️ Beautiful Blessings

[@bonniearmstead3690]

Hello Stephanie! You were part of my inspiration to move to Chapala Mexico in 2021! I thank you ❤. I did not know you were from Dover! I’m originally from West Chester, Pa. We need you in our world! So happy that I am practicing my radical self-care!

[@kathrynbuschan]

I like the sabbatical self care the most!

[@PS-mt5rp]

I am so ready to do this what a concept i need a nontraditional income flow like now

[@fdoctor79]

Hello fellow phantom coming from a PhD student, I can relate. I need relief! 😅 The background setting looks amazing! Tfs

[@2B-Steele]

You are talking facts….. the KZbin community is real.

[@laydgaga6710]

Hello… listening and looking for my black woman dream . Certainly didn’t find it in the US and I think it’s time for a radical change in my life. I’m definitely interested in all of the above living abroad ,and taking time to rest. I’m definitely there.

[@saidatoke3124]

Love it. Thank you for sharing ❤

[@alightforyourpath]

Fellow Delawarian here ❤ You inspire me, Stephanie. Traci Fick

[@glamazini]

Hi Stephanie Perry 💛✨

[@nonadaze]

😊 I want this.

[@rubylimey7614]

Awesome n inspiring content as always Stephanie. Blessings🙏

[@StephaniePerry]

Thanks so much Ruby! 💗

[@PS-mt5rp]

that's the truth

[@CaribbeanQueen513]

Love your lipstick color Stephanie 😃

[@NicianNia]

That sounds amazing! I took a week off work a month ago and just stayed home. It felt so good to come back to myself and deprioritize work. So I can only imagine what a sabbatical does. ❤ Do you still plan to house sit once you have your own home? Do you plan to rent or own there?

[@PS-mt5rp]

all 3❤❤❤❤❤

[@nylorac1984]

What a beautiful and truly powerful journey you are on. So inspiring. ❤❤❤

[@explorertoya3578]

Hi Stephanie!

[@StephaniePerry]

Hey Toya! 👋🏾

[@Queenvoney]

I will see you in two days. I can't wait.

[@Chance-ew3rn]

Great video! Actually going on a sabbatical is the one I choose! ❤

[@cutecalmcozy]

I appreciate these videos so much!✨️

[@dwalker6868]

Thank you

[@debratorres6682]

Active community!

[@moriahproctor951]

I was just in San Jose, I wish I could have met you!

[@StephaniePerry]

I hope we'll get to meet up soon Moriah. 💗

[@eternalabundance39]

Congratulations Stephanie on getting your place abd thank you for the video.

[@travelbymrs.v3599]

I would love to house sit ! Im in the Exodus summit community we had a meet up in Oakland the bay area! It was fabulous. I need some radical self care!

[@PS-mt5rp]

That's tomorrow thank God for replays

[@adjoachilds6074]

I love you and your mission.

[@aprilvirgil9604]

Hello Stephanie. 😊

[@StephaniePerry]

Hello April. 💗

[@Itsthetruth360]

Thank you for showing us how to love and support each other🎯

[@milard6756]

Thank you! This is inspiring. Im attending the summit snd im looking forward to hearing you speak as well! 😊

[@anisafrombreuklen406]

I relocated to Hawaii. I think 🤔 i need to explore other islands 🏝 in Hawaii. I relocated from NYC.

[@Jj-rq9sp]

Actively forming community. I'm not quite sure how to do this. I have been thinking about this for some time but more urgently over the past year I talked with a friend about it. However all my friends are married and they don't quite get it as it isn't an issue for them. I am an introvert and I also am not on social media and not comfortable with the idea for myself though I appreciate/support others like yourself who are on it. It would be easier i think if I had the money aspect figured out. Other than rest, that needs to be my number 1 focus.

[@siyandankundla-mgudlwa1888]

Love this❤

[@llm5673]

I Love This Stephanie! Thank you for this! This seems so wonderful and farout! I'm 62 and in good shape! I'm wondering how I can do this! Trying to wrap my head around all of what you are saying! I want to create or become a part of a community! I'm going to look at more of your content

[@PS-mt5rp]

WOW I could imagine seeing how other people are living

[@pariskanioros9262]

When and where is your next meet up? I feel like I’m suffocating here in California as a black woman and I need community! 😢

[@andreamuse2002]

Hi Stephanie! I’m so glad that you came across my feed. So much of what you’ve shared resonates with me. I now realize I am not alone in desiring a different way of living. Can you share if there’s anything in particular that you did to save that amount of $ for your sabbatical?

[@shanellori]

Do you believe this is something that black women who are single parents can do?

[@RandomVideoz514]

Marriage under parental pressure || Acharya Prashant (2024)

[@PS-mt5rp]

Beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@debratorres6682]

House set! How

[@t.f.6297]

The people who you for being exhausted = my family

[@glennproby8416]

Hello Stephanie. I'm a married retired man wanting to travel with my wife. I saw several of your videos on international house sitting. Is this something a couple can get into? I don't have to house sit but if I can travel and house sit to cut expenses, I'm happy to do that. Any advice on traveling to some of your locations, I'd appreciate it.

[@JoyRoute]

I love road trip (nature) sabbaticals and enjoy watching videos from people like you who take Sabbaticals out of the country. I'm Houseless, Zipcodeless and all of that good jazz. Housesitting interest me but I prefer to house sit pools over pets.😊 I would house sit a rabbit or gold fish.

[@rosechambers1844]

I have gotten so much push back and rejection with no support as a black woman in america by the way I am a licensed nurse means nothing here❤

[@nylorac1984]

When you came to the decision to take your Sabbatical from work what were some of the things that lead you to the mindsets of I am going to save, I am going on a world travel adventure, I am going to take off from work?

[@debratorres6682]

Is joining the summit free?

[@susanalexander4683]

How important is it to your journey to have a safe place to land when you return to the US?

[@sassykewl9914]

I tried to join the Facebook group several times. I have not been excepted. I think I maybe because you can't tell i am a Black woman. I don't post on social media and little to no presence. Is there another qualifier I can use to become a part of the group?

[@VeronicaLovesAI]

No the "dream life" is not possible in the United States. I, as an Army Brat, grew up in different parts of the world. I have always kinda known this, even if subconsciously. Time to move on, Ladies. The whole world is in a migration phase if you pay attention...

[@gladyswj9968]

Matthew 6:33. We can thrive inside-out; intentionally build and support community; vote in person or while abroad via absentee ballot as we cling to our U.S. passport and its benefits; and rest.

[@debratorres6682]

Help How do I get started living the life of my dreams. How to find women of color that are on my side. How do I actively find friends. Are all the links free? How do I find the financing? Even jobs that can help! I look at your videos but can’t find anything that helps women with no support!

[@FleurRebelle]

She listed resources right in this video..exodus summit, etc. Watch it again

[@doll.ov.poetrii4682]

Her videos are about black women, not "women of color".

[@Ms.Billie1234]

you saved $14 THOUSAND+ in 15mos?? in order to "stick under the $12 HUNDRED a month budget"?? just making sure you meant to say that you saved $14,400 in 15months and not $1440 in 15 months? of course it's possible -- i just wanna make sure you meant to say the amount you actually said. ~ b.

[@PS-mt5rp]

Get me started

[@PS-mt5rp]

Do you still pay taxes with the summit youtube and all other income

[@PS-mt5rp]

How's the airfare

[@PS-mt5rp]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@PS-mt5rp]

I can see that white washed all the way that's what I'm looking for a community that's nurturing and loving