#282: How to Heal in Community (7 Tips to Make Sisterhood Work)

Black Girls Heal

Shena Lashey

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Black Girls Heal podcast, I'm diving deep into something that's essential for our healing journey but often overlooked—the power of sisterhood and community. As someone who's experienced both the isolation of healing alone and the transformative power of healing in community, I'm sharing seven practical tips to help you build and nurture meaningful friendships that support your growth.

In this episode, we cover…

01:00 The importance of community in healing
04:45 Where to find friends
15:41 Why you should invest in friendships
18:24 Challenges in building friendships
26:29 Finding friends with a good track record
32:20 How to handle rejection and ghosting
35:37 Accepting different levels of friendship
42:42 Prioritizing self-care and avoidance to grow your friendships

Resources mentioned in the episode:

Listen to Episode 56: Starting A Healing Circle: https://www.blackgirlsheal.org/podcast/episode-55-starting-a-healing-circle
The Black Girls Healing Circle Workbook: https://amzn.to/3Dx3uDj
Listen to Episode 108: How to Make Adult Female Friendships with Danielle Bayard Jackson: https://www.blackgirlsheal.org/podcast/episode-108-how-to-make-adult-female-friendships-with-danielle-bayard-jackson
The Healed and Loved Woman Retreat: https://www.blackgirlsheal.org/retreat
Join our email list: https://www.blackgirlsheal.org/mailing-list
How to Pick Partners for Love Addicts book: blackgirlsheal.org/books
Ready to heal your Love Addiction & Love Avoidance? Join The Recovery School, my signature coaching program to help you become love balanced, love available, and fulfilled: blackgirlsheal.org/love-addiction-recovery
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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 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.
0:52.3	Hello, hello, and welcome to the latest episode of Black Girls' Heal.
0:56.5	So today we're talking about sisterhood.
0:58.9	We are talking about friendship.
1:00.7	In these current times, something that I've heard over and over again, more so than we
1:05.7	already heard, is the importance of community.
1:08.5	The importance of building our social network, our friendships,
1:12.6	our chosen family, and our community resources to feel supported, to feel safe, to feel seen.
1:19.8	And all of that is absolutely true. And I know for those of us who are listening, some of us are
1:26.1	very lucky. When it comes to this, we have
1:29.0	deep friendships that we may have had for a long time from childhood, or we may have found our chosen
1:35.4	family and friends older in life as adults, older adults, or somewhere in between. And some
1:42.3	others of us, we are still on their journey. We may be people
1:45.2	who know lots of people, but we don't really have people who are our best friends or people that we
1:49.4	know that we can count on. We may be folks who don't quite know a lot of people, and so we don't
1:55.5	have that community. And people who are a little bit in between, you know, people that you don't
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