#1: 5 Reasons Why Intimacy is So Hard
Black Girls Heal
Shena Lashey
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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If you have a problem getting close to others or letting others in, this is the episode for you. We discuss 5 reasons why intimacy can be so hard, even when it's what we truly want.
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| 0:00.0 | My job is to somehow make them curious enough or persuade them by Hooker Crow to get more aware of themselves and where they came from and what they are into and what is already there just to bring it out. |
| 0:21.0 | This is what compels me to compel them and I will do it by |
| 0:26.0 | whatever means necessary. Welcome to the Black Girls Hill podcast where we talk |
| 0:32.1 | about healing our intimacy disorders and |
| 0:34.4 | resolve trauma and building a healthy relationship with first ourselves and |
| 0:38.5 | then others. Every episode we will talk about advice you can apply today to break unhealthy patterns |
| 0:44.4 | and grow in your self-worth. I'm She Nelachee love addition coach and trauma |
| 0:48.9 | specialist. Let's begin. Hey ladies, welcome to the latest episode of Love Junkies. |
| 0:56.0 | So today I am going to be talking all about what makes intimacy so hard, the ever elusive ways of connecting to others |
| 1:08.0 | emotionally and letting people in. And what's really hard about this or what's really frustrating is sometimes we can have such a hard time letting people in and trusting them, even though all we really want is that happy ever after, we want to be fully known, we want to feel safe, |
| 1:27.7 | but we can't let our walls down. |
| 1:29.8 | Sometimes it's even being intimate with ourselves to be able to admit that that's what we actually want. |
| 1:35.6 | You know, we've been hurt so many times, we don't believe that it's possible for us, and so we continue to just minimize what we need and so we can't even be honest with us |
| 1:47.2 | so that we can actually move forward to get what we want. It's just another fancy self protective measure. |
| 1:54.3 | And so today I want to talk about where problems with intimacy comes from. |
| 1:59.6 | And then also give you a couple of labels to help you going forward. |
| 2:04.6 | If you can relate to that, really wanting intimacy and to be connected or |
| 2:10.4 | and being aware of it or even the other extreme wanting it but pushing it down and not be honest with yourself |
| 2:16.7 | Let me know tag me on IG |
| 2:19.7 | Let's talk about it in a Facebook group. You can find the group at black girls heel.org |
| 2:24.4 | slash group. |
| 2:26.2 | We'd love to hear what other people's experiences are |
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