This is not a farewell—it’s a sacred pause. A moment to honor the spirals we've taken together: through fear and fatigue, freedom and faith, grief and becoming. In this last offering, Karmen reflects on what it means to follow divine instruction when you don't know the next step, to trust rest as sacred, and to live not just by grind, but by grace. If you’ve ever needed permission to stop striving, to stop performing, to simply be—this is that permission slip. The spiral doesn’t end here. It ...
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This is not a farewell—it’s a sacred pause. A moment to honor the spirals we've taken together: through fear and fatigue, freedom and faith, grief and becoming. In this last offering, Karmen reflects on what it means to follow divine instruction when you don't know the next step, to trust rest as sacred, and to live not just by grind, but by grace. If you’ve ever needed permission to stop striving, to stop performing, to simply be—this is that permission slip. The spiral doesn’t end here. It ...
DC Black Pride, Chasing Pleasure, and Freedom Ain't Free
Overthinking with Karmen
9 minutes
5 months ago
DC Black Pride, Chasing Pleasure, and Freedom Ain't Free
This week, your Overthinker-in-Chief Karmen Michael Smith spirals into a layered reflection on freedom—not just political, but personal, embodied, and spiritual. From a conversation about emotional well-being, to the joy and tension of DC’s Black Pride, to the cost of sexual liberation in a world that polices Black queer bodies, this episode asks: What are we calling “freedom”… that’s actually just well-dressed captivity? Karmen weaves scripture, history, and lived experience into a moving re...
Overthinking with Karmen
This is not a farewell—it’s a sacred pause. A moment to honor the spirals we've taken together: through fear and fatigue, freedom and faith, grief and becoming. In this last offering, Karmen reflects on what it means to follow divine instruction when you don't know the next step, to trust rest as sacred, and to live not just by grind, but by grace. If you’ve ever needed permission to stop striving, to stop performing, to simply be—this is that permission slip. The spiral doesn’t end here. It ...
