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Bread For Today
by Tonesha Russell
Think: If Jesus were a Black mom; it's where race, faith and the 'hood (motherhood, womanhood) align; here we are learning to exist, survive and thrive one daily morsel at a time. A weekly show exploring the journey to find a new perspective in the seasons we all have or will find ourselves in--and tools to navigate through and become a better person. We will zero in on how to find gratitude in just one daily delight and use that as the prescription for a joyful life.
Episodes
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Let It Burn (Allow It Pt. 3)
The final stage is completing. With our allowing comes some burning. But are you willing to go into the fire to come out on the other side refined? Are you will to admit some truths, concede some notions to ensure your garden will flourish? An abnormally hot spring, paved the way to what will be…
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Allow It (Part 2)
We've crossed over into more; yet it's still spring and the seed is for an appointed time. In this sense, there is still more growing and waiting before the harvest. All you can do is allow it. Part 2.
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We've already tended to the weeds and declared this is the end of whatever end was needed. So we understand spring time as a period of burial and regrowth—a regeneration that will bring forth a harvest. You're not going through these cycles: lesson; faith; trust; work, repeat—for there to be...
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Allow It (Part 1)
We threw off the straps of the merry-go-round, finally out the penalty box and back in the race. If you have no idea what I'm talking about go back and listen to This is the End. The seasons have change which means an end is inevitable. But an end always means new beginnings, if you allow it.…
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This is the End
More than updating our belief systems, reading another self-help book or any of the other ways "they" say we should order our lives the current space and pace of our experience has come to show us: This is the End--of the ways we used to do it. And now we can begin envisioning a more robust and...
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Tend to the Weeds
As the seasons change we shift our focus to planting new seeds and revisiting the seeds already planted. This means we must head outside to contend with the weeds that have grown around and attached to our fruit. If we want to see the produce, more than simply stagnated growth, we must clear out...
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Be Still & Know
We got to winter, now what? This continued time of hibernation requires a stillness that will set us up for eventual fruit. Although there is no produce, growth is inevitable, is happening. Your task in the process: Be Still and Know.
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Revise (Get to Winter)
As we transition from one season to another, what once laid dormant can now be revived-- looked at again with new eyes. Your Bread for Today: Revise. Allow this transition to be one of revision, where new opportunities and perspectives become possible.
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Enjoy
We're all going through a cycle, because that's the inevitability of life. Your Bread for Today is to Enjoy where you are as you continue to expand and grow.
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Eyes Forward
As we run our race, sometimes we look to the left or right to see what's going on around us. That's when we stumble; that's when we fall. To run a tight, solo race, we must keep our eyes forward. Whether it feels like it or not, with each stride you are getting further to your destination. So…
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Let It Fall Away
Fall is a time of in-between: the summer sun is gone, but the ground isn't completely frozen over. In this liminal space, there is time to uncover just how deep the roots of whatever you're trying to uncover, go. It's not a time of stagnation, but an opportunity to dig up and let fall away…
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Learn the Lesson
The season is changing, there's only so much we can control. And with every cycle there is a lesson to be learned--neither good or bad; it is what it is. Your Bread for Today: Learn the Lesson. There will always be one, so we learn to embrace them.
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Celebrate/Recalibrate Pt. 3
We're coming out of a pandemic, folks is tired. I get it. So as we close out a season and enter the Summer '21, let's take a moment to celebrate: recovery, joy, peace, life and begin to recalibrate for what is sure to be your new and best phase. Celebrate these wins, y'all. Follow us on IG:...
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Let It Be (What it May)
The seasons will change; things go under ground and grow again. After you've done all the work you can to prepare, fertilize and plant, at some point you have to let it be. Always remember there is life, even in the dirt. Slow growth doesn't mean no growth. So, let it be.
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Follow the Breadcrumbs
It's easy to feel lost when the path you're on doesn't look like the path you've expected. The task is to remember that you're on the right track because you've got evidence that where you've come from and where you're going is all for your good. To follow the breadcrumbs is to remind yourself…
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Check In (with Yourself)
Amidst the many transitions we face daily, have you taken the time to check in with yourself? Body scan lately? How are your shoulders doing? In this episode of Bread for Today we talk checking in with ourselves and others about how we're really doing one year into a pandemic.
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In Your Own Strength
We've already been equipped with everything we need to live this life successfully. We must stop looking for more information, knowledge, access and start looking to the strength we already have. Your Bread for Today: Go In Your Own Strength. Follow us on IG: @bread_fortoday
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Free Yourself ft. Rosie Washington
The past year may have felt daunting, but if there's anything that we've learned it's that we have to let go of some of our preconceived notions and open ourselves up to creating a new thing. This only happens when we free ourselves and let go of how we think things should be. Listen as Rosie…
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Try Something New
This week we talk what it means to try something new as we end a challenging and beautiful year and move into even more of the unknown. What does it mean to let go of the survival patterns that have kept us here, open ourselves us to the newness that is waiting for us amidst and on the other side...
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Faith, Pt. 2
On this episode of Bread for Today we talk transitions, breadcrumbs and mending broken pieces. What carries us through it all is Faith. Your Bread for Today is to have Faith that every experience is bringing you closer to where you want (and need) to be.
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Live Honestly ft. Tiffani Marie
Our risk taking doesn't come without a cost. Sometimes the work is to live into the most honest representation of yourself and your purpose that you can fathom. But it's a process. Your Bread for Today: Live Honestly. Follow Bread for Today on IG: @bread_fortoday
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Receive
Are you living with your fists opened or clinched? Body tense or facing the sun? Whatever your posture, open yourself up to receive. Consider: what has been holding you back from receiving all the good that is meant for you? If you've got it, share with us what you're open to receiving, today....
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Protect Yourself feat. Trineka Greer
In order to live fully and authentically, it's important to fiercely protect your time, talents and treasure. To accomplish this, you must first protect yourself. At all cost. Your Bread for Today: Protect Yourself--know what a valuable asset you are and go from there. Follow us on IG:...
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Trust the Process
Quarantine 2020. We're so ready to be back outside. But what if I told you inside is where you're meant to be and there's something beautiful happening--you just have to Trust the Process. Enjoy this Bread all week and remember: you're growing. Check out Vestabrooke Acres and A Knitters…
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Celebrate/Recalibrate Pt. 2
This week's episode wraps up our 2nd season with a reminder to check-in. We've experienced major changes in the past 7 weeks, but that doesn't undo all the good and the things that got us to this point. So as we take a quick break, your Bread for Today is to Celebrate and Recalibrate. What...
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Just Keep Walking
Description: We're on a journey. There's no two ways to think about it. The challenge is how we fair as we make our way down the road. The only way we are going to make it to our destination is Your Bread for Today: just keep walking. One foot in front of the other; slow down around the bend and...
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Speak Good
It's so easy to get caught up in the cycle of negativity that seems to be surrounding us in these times. But we challenge you today, this week, to Speak Good. What you say has a profound effect on how you feel. Change your atmosphere by speaking good into it. Your Bread for Today: Speak Good
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Find P.E.A.C.E
We can't do anything about what's happening in the world today, but we can control our response to it. We can make P.E.A.C.E with it. Today, consider how you can Prepare now for when this is all over; it what ways can you Empower yourself and others around you? What Action can you take, today to...
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Consider the Birds
There are times when we can get caught up in what is or isn't happening in our lives; most times it may cause us to worry about whether or not we've been forgotten--by our Creator. This week's episode is a challenge to you, to consider the birds (and other living creatures) that do not worry…
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Be A Friend
A friend must show themselves friendly. It's easy to get comfortable in our circles and comfort zones. How often are you aware of the impact you have on others outside your personal relationships? Your Bread for Today: Be a Friend. Take the time to make someone else's day, with a smile or kind...
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Make Time (Take Time)
It's very easy to get caught up in the daily grind. You then look up days, months, years later and ask: well, what about me. Your Bread for Today: Make time and take some time, for yourself, your needs and priorities. And the rest will fall into place.
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Live, Today
For everything there is a season. A time to live and a time to die. In this episode of Bread for Today, we talk about living life fully, to the best of your ability and in your own unique sense of purpose. Your Bread for Today: Live, Today.
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Strengthen Your Core Pt. 2
If we feel off-kilter, disaligned and otherwise out of balance, it's often because we lack a stable center. This week we talk about how we can strengthen our core; how having a strong, stable core helps us to prevent injuries (of life) and allows us to perform at our best. Your Bread for Today:...
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Strengthen Your Core Pt. 1
If we feel off-kilter, disaligned and otherwise out of balance, it's often because we lack a stable center. This week we talk about how we can strengthen our core; how having a strong, stable core helps us to prevent injuries (of life) and allows us to perform at our best. Your Bread for Today:...
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Be Still
Your Bread for Today is to Be Still. You've planted and watered and now is the time to be still and know that your efforts are enough. Today, don't do. Be still.
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Break Tradition
In this episode we grapple with the question of how much of our lives are dictated by what's been tradition and what we feel we're supposed to be doing? In what ways can we use #megxit to break free from some of the traditions to which we ascribe and just change our minds about the ways we live…
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Embrace You
In this episode of Bread for Today we talk coming back from what seems like utter disaster, how surrendering to the circumstance doesn't mean defeat, but forces you to reevaluate how you see yourself and create space for you to accept the help that has been there all along. Your Bread for Today…
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Be Open
Ever feel closed off to the world, new experiences and opportunities? Your Bread for Today: Be Open. One day at a time, take a chance at opening your hands to receive the beauty and newness that life is trying to offer you. Be open to all the good that's in your view, because it is indeed there.
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Look Again
Your Bread for Today: Look Again. We tend to count ourself out because of the place we were in then. But each day we're a new person with new opportunities. What is that you need to see again? What do you need to reinvestigate, reinvigorate? What did you think was dead that was just dormant? Is…
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Trust Yourself
Your Bread for Today: Trust Yourself. In this BFT episode, we discuss the challenge of letting go of where you think you're supposed to be and embracing where you are. What does it look like to be comfortable in your own skin? And can you trust that this journey you're on is just where you're…
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Recalibrate (Celebrate)
We take a look back on the past 8 weeks and do a check-in with ourselves. Where are you now? Have you been taking it one day at a time? Your Bread for Today: Recalibrate and Celebrate how far you've come. No matter the destination, you're not in the same spot. Have faith, know you're worthy of...
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For Your Good
Today is for your good. Do you ever have days where nothing seems to go right? Where Murphy's law is the theme of your life: whatever could go wrong, will. And at an avalanche's pace? And then something happened: I decided to believe. Believe that everything is always working out for me. That all...
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Keep Pressing
Your Bread for Today: Keep Pressing. In this episode we talk about Tyler Perry's come up and how a relentless pursuit will take you from dilapidation to manifestation--if only you keep pressing.
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Worth(y)--Part 2
In this 2nd part of our Worthy podcast, we talk India Arie and her #worthytour. How can exist in a society where scrutiny is the name of the game? That's where the notion of worthy comes in. We look at the difference between identifying with your pain or as you pain. And we declare that no matter...
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Worth(y)--Part 1
In part 1 of this 2-part series of Bread for Today, we take a look at what it means to be worthy just for today--in the time, moment and path that you're uniquely on. What does it mean to thrive in transition and how can you hold on to your sense of self-worth when everything around you tells you...
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Eternal Optimist or Nah?
In this episode of Bread For Today, we talk optimism, realism and people pleasing. How can we be conscious of how people view us and still show up as our authentic selves? In the end, we want to be doing the work of becoming our best selves, not for anyone else, but because that quest for...
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Surrender
In this episode tribute to Toni Morrison we discuss what it means to live a liberated life. How can we use the act of surrender to begin to take flight? Morrison says, if you wanna fly, you've got to give up the shit that's weighing you down. Your Bread for Today: Surrender. Your surrender is the...
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Faith (Part 1)
We've all heard it: you have to have faith. If you would only believe. No matter your faith tradition, there is a level of belief required to attain any sort of success (more on the differing notions of success); so then, what do you do when you feel like you've run out of the capacity to…
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Bread for Today---Welcome to the Podcast
Welcome to the Bread for Today podcast! We're gonna take life one morsel at a time. I'm so excited you've decided to tune in. Like, share, subscribe! Thanks for listening!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Think: If Jesus were a Black mom; it's where race, faith and the 'hood (motherhood, womanhood) align; here we are learning to exist, survive and thrive one daily morsel at a time. A weekly show exploring the journey to find a new perspective in the seasons we all have or will find ourselves in--and tools to navigate through and become a better person. We will zero in on how to find gratitude in just one daily delight and use that as the prescription for a joyful life.
HOSTED BY
Tonesha Russell
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Think: If Jesus were a Black mom; it's where race, faith and the 'hood (motherhood, womanhood) align; here we are learning to exist, survive and thrive one daily morsel at a time. A weekly show exploring the journey to find a new perspective in the seasons we all have or will find ourselves in--and...
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