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🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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In this episode of the Black Girls Heal podcast, we're having an honest conversation about something that hits deep—why we stay in relationships even when we're completely exhausted. From social media discussions to real-life experiences, we're seeing how women often find themselves caught in cycles of emotional labor and self-improvement, all while trying to make a relationship work that's draining their energy.
Through my years of coaching women, I've identified the key stages we go through in these relationships: from the initial comfort and commitment, through the stress and burnout, to the moments of clarity that finally lead to change.
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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. |
0:20.0 | Just 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 |
0:35.0 | 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 break unhealthy patterns |
0:44.4 | and grow in your self-worth. I'm Sheena Lechay, love addiction coach and trauma specialist. Let's begin. |
0:53.4 | Hello, hello, and welcome to the latest episode of Black Girls' Heal. |
0:57.5 | So, y'all, I am so nervous about today's podcast episode. |
1:03.4 | And I think I'm nervous because today's topic is such a big issue. |
1:10.7 | It is an important issue. issue is one that hundreds of thousands |
1:14.8 | of women, if not millions of women, experience every day and they don't really know what to do |
1:22.0 | about it when they've done everything that they can to try to break the cycle. And it's just not getting better. |
1:28.5 | And focusing on themselves is not making it better. And I pray before I started this episode. |
1:33.8 | I just really pray that it hits the ears of every single person who needs it. And even if it's |
1:39.0 | something that you have to listen to over and over again at different times, I pray that every time |
1:43.9 | it resonates in the way that |
1:45.5 | you need it and the way that your heart needs it. But if you're someone who has gone through |
1:51.1 | this experience and you're looking back at it, I pray that you're able to hear this with love |
1:56.6 | and with compassion and love and compassion that you can give yourself. So I'm going to talk more about |
2:02.2 | inspiration for this episode after the jump, but let me just tell you what it is. We're talking about |
2:07.5 | why we stay in relationships when we feel tired, when we feel heavy laden, burdened as if we are |
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