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 ...
What Survives the Fire: Kim Burrell, Tamar Braxton, Orlando Brown, and the Performance of Pain
Overthinking with Karmen
8 minutes
5 months ago
What Survives the Fire: Kim Burrell, Tamar Braxton, Orlando Brown, and the Performance of Pain
They make us laugh. They make us cringe. Sometimes they make us mad. But what do Kim Burrell, Tamar Braxton, and Orlando Brown all have in common? They’ve all been crowned “too much.” Too dramatic. Too messy. Too unpredictable. And yet… we can’t look away. In this episode of Overthinking with Karmen, your Overthinker-in-Chief Karmen Michael Smith spirals into the performance of Black pain—on pulpits, on stages, on timelines—and asks: What happens when the armor becomes the identity? From the ...
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 ...
