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Black Girls Heal

#277: 3 Ways to Not Move Too Fast in a New Relationship

Black Girls Heal

Shena Lashey

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

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Black Girls Heal podcast, we're diving into something that many of us struggle with—protecting our individuality when new love enters the picture. You know that excitement when someone new comes into your life and suddenly you want to share every moment with them? Today, we're talking about why that impulse, though natural, needs some healthy boundaries.


Through my years of coaching women through love addiction recovery, I've discovered three powerful strategies that can help you maintain your identity while building meaningful connections. These aren't just tips —they're practical tools that can transform how you approach new relationships and protect your emotional wellbeing.


In this episode, we cover…

  • 03:46 The importance of slowing down
  • 05:17 Tip 1: Share your joy with friends first
  • 14:52 Tip 2: Set scheduled times and dates
  • 19:46 Tip 3: Hold off on sexual intimacy


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0:00.0

My job is to somehow make them curious enough or persuade them by hook or crow to get more aware of themselves and where they came from and what they are into and what is already there is to bring it out. This is what

0:22.1

compels me to compel them. And I will do it by whatever means necessary. Welcome to the Black

0:30.2

Girls Hill podcast where we talk about healing our intimacy disorders and resolve trauma and building a

0:36.2

healthy relationship with first ourselves and then

0:38.6

others. Every episode, we will talk about advice you can apply today to break unhealthy patterns

0:44.4

and grow in your self-work. I'm Sheena Lachay, love addiction coach and trauma specialist.

0:50.0

Let's begin. Hello, hello, and welcome to the latest episode of Black Girls Heal. I am so happy to be with

1:00.0

you today. It is a great day for healing and for love and for calling in all the things that

1:05.4

you've always deserved and cutting out the things that have been keeping you burdened and stuck.

1:10.2

And I hope that you are getting all of those things.

1:12.5

I hope that you are surrounded by love, by people that pour into you, by free drinks,

1:19.6

by blessings at work, by just doing nothing time on the couch.

1:25.0

I pray that whatever brings you joy that you're getting more of that this season

1:29.4

and then the seasons to come because, again, you are so worth it.

1:33.4

So in today's episode, I am going to be talking about three ways to not lose yourself

1:39.9

or to not move too fast, especially in a new relationship.

1:45.0

So even though these are things that you can probably try to apply retroactively to new

1:49.9

romantic partnerships that you're in, if you are feeling that you're starting to lose yourself,

1:54.5

if you're feeling as if you're starting to become too dependent on the attention and the

1:58.5

time of the person that you are with. You can take some of the concepts

2:03.6

I'm going to say here and either do what I'm suggesting or take what you need and kind of amend it,

2:09.6

whatever works best for you. But for those of you who are, you just happen to find this podcast

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