#149: Enabling vs Empowering
Black Girls Heal
Shena Lashey
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the difference between disempowering helping (enabling) and empowerment.
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| 0:00.0 | My, my job is to somehow make them curious enough and persuade them by hookah crew to get |
| 0:14.4 | more aware of themselves and where they came from and what they are into and what is already |
| 0:19.3 | there just to bring it out. This is what compels me to compel them and I will do it by whatever |
| 0:26.4 | means necessary. Welcome to the Black Girl's Hill podcast where we talk about |
| 0:32.4 | healing or intimacy disorders, members of trauma and building a healthy relationship with |
| 0:37.1 | first ourselves and then others. Every episode we will talk about advice you can apply today |
| 0:43.0 | to break unhealthy patterns and grow your self-worth. I'm Shrinella Shay, love addition coach and |
| 0:48.6 | trauma specialist. Let's begin. Hello, hello and welcome to the latest episode of Black Girl's |
| 0:57.6 | Hill. So in today's episode we are going to talk about the difference between enabling behavior |
| 1:06.1 | which is being disempowering to the people that we love and being actually empowering to them |
| 1:12.9 | and allowing them to make their own decisions. This is very hard for us to figure out |
| 1:20.8 | what is the actual boundary with it, what is appropriate because with the people that we love, |
| 1:27.5 | friendship, romantic partners, family members especially, we want to help them. In fact that's |
| 1:33.9 | actually the main definition of to enable to have enabling behavior when you look it up is actually |
| 1:41.0 | to assist to support it doesn't really get into the negative connotation that we think of and we |
| 1:46.8 | think of those who are enablers to poor decision making into bad behavior. However when we talk about |
| 1:56.1 | as those of us who are enablers the reason why that is actually not helpful to people which |
| 2:03.2 | basically is you're helping someone too much, you're assisting them too much, you're doing way |
| 2:08.6 | too much and being in their corner is because it stops them from actually being able to grow |
| 2:15.5 | and to make their own decisions and to mature. Thanks for listening to this week's podcast |
| 2:22.1 | before we get started let's take a small break to say thank you to this week's sponsors. |
| 2:29.7 | Thanks for listening to this week's podcast before we get started let's take a small break to |
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