#255: Hard Lessons Learned After 10 Years in Love Addiction Recovery

Black Girls Heal

Shena Lashey

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Black Girls Heal, I dive deep into the lessons I've learned over my 10 years of recovery from love addiction. This journey has been incredibly personal and transformative. Many of you have watched and supported me through it all—clients, friends, and those who know me through this podcast. I reflect on the challenges, the growth, and the relationships that have shaped me, culminating in a discussion inspired by a poignant poem that has guided me.

Join me as I share my story, my insights as a therapist, and the lessons that have helped me build a stronger, healthier relationship with myself. Whether you're just starting your journey or have been here for a while, I hope my experiences resonate with you and offer inspiration for your own path to self-acceptance and self-love.

In this episode, we cover…

00:57 My journey of love addiction recovery
02:09 The poem that changed everything
03:37 My personal background and struggles with love addiction
06:56 Lessons from my love addiction recovery journey
13:08 The turning point in my love addiction recovery journey
15:29 How I embraced self-love and independence
39:03 Final reflections and takeaways

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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 whatever
0:26.4	means necessary.
0:28.4	Welcome to the Black Girls Hill podcast where we talk about healing our intimacy disorders,
0:34.3	and resolve trauma, and building a healthy relationship with first ourselves and
0:38.4	then others. Every episode we will talk about advice you can apply today to break unhealthy patterns
0:44.3	and grow in yourself work. I'm She Nelachee Love Edition coach and trauma
0:48.9	specialist. Let's begin.
0:57.3	Hello, hello and welcome to the latest episode of Black Girls Heal. So in today's episode, I'm going to share with you lessons that I have learned over my 10 years in recovery from love addiction.
1:06.0	This has been a very deep and important road of recovery for Lee and many of you have been here along the journey with me as my client
1:15.0	some of you know me personally and you've watched the things from the ground floor
1:19.1	and you've watched the change the transformation you have watched the relationships improve, you've watched my relationship with myself
1:26.5	improved, and depending on when you have joined me on this podcasting journey, you've had seven to eight years of me sharing a lot of the
1:35.5	lessons of tools and things that I have learned here on this platform as well and in my
1:41.6	love junkie platform which is where I first started
1:43.7	podcasting about sex and a prediction.
1:45.9	So today's episode was inspired by,
1:49.4	I was reminded about a poem, which I'm pretty sure
1:51.9	I've talked about here on the podcast before but I talked about love edition so
1:56.2	many different places in so many different ways and I kind of confused okay
1:59.6	does share this with my clients did I share this on the podcast to share this on social media? Did I share this on the podcast? I don't know, but it is so good that it
2:08.0	it bears repeating. I'm going to share with you a poem that I found right before I actually entered my recovery process with
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