#260: Doing No Contact with a Co-Parent

Black Girls Heal

Shena Lashey

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Black Girls Heal, I delve into the intricacies of implementing a no-contact process while co-parenting. This much-requested topic focuses on maintaining emotional neutrality and setting firm boundaries when you have to communicate with a co-parent for the sake of your children.

I’ll share practical steps and tips designed to help you stay centered and avoid the emotional triggers that led you to this place.

Disclaimer: This advice is not suitable for relationships involving physical domestic violence; please seek appropriate support if that is your situation.

In this episode, we cover…

01:41 Challenges of co-parenting during no-contact
03:23 An important disclaimer
05:50 Importance of emotional neutrality
11:48 Seeing your co-parent as a co-worker
24:13 Using parenting apps for communication
27:00 How to set boundaries to avoid emotional traps
31:40 How to deal with toxic relationships
39:28 Communicating with children during no contact

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Listen to Episode 253: The 4 Steps of No Contact
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Transcript

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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	unresolved trauma, and building a healthy relationship with first ourselves and then
0:38.6	others. Every episode we will talk about advice you can apply today to bring unhealthy patterns
0:44.3	and grow in your self-worth. I'm Sheena Lache, Love Edition coach and trauma
0:48.9	specialist. Let's begin. Hello, hello, welcome to the latest episode of Black
0:55.8	Girls Heel. So in today's episode I'm going to be talking about a very
0:59.6	requested topic. It has actually been more requested behind the scenes whenever I'm talking about no contact.
1:06.4	So for those of you don't know, I teach a no contact process that is based on your healing
1:11.6	as a love addict.
1:13.2	When most of us think about no contact,
1:15.0	we automatically know that that usually means blocking someone
1:18.2	and not talking to them for a while,
1:20.3	you know, kind of removing access,
1:22.3	but I teach about no contact being a full
1:24.8	detox healing process that is multiple steps that's not really even focus on the
1:29.3	person as a whole but more focus on the trauma that brought you into this place your
1:34.1	patterns and your habits around this person what makes it hard for you to let go of
1:37.6	this trauma bond and the places in your heart that this is serving right so as
1:41.9	I've taught this over the years, one question that comes up often is,
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