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Black Girls Heal

#283: How to Host a Healing Circle With Friends

Black Girls Heal

Shena Lashey

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Black Girls Heal podcast, I'm diving deep into how healing circles can transform your journey through love addiction recovery. After years of coaching women through attachment struggles, I've seen firsthand how creating the right community can accelerate healing in ways individual work simply can't.


We explore exactly how to build your own healing circle—from finding the right participants to establishing crucial ground rules that create safety for vulnerability. I share practical tips for structuring your meetings, developing a curriculum that promotes real growth, and navigating the inevitable conflicts that arise when people are doing deep healing work together.


In this episode, we cover…

  • 02:35 - The sisterhood effect on healing
  • 03:56 - How to create your own healing circle
  • 09:16 - Setting your healing circle up for success
  • 17:16 - Ground rules for safety
  • 29:13 - Ways to structure your healing circle
  • 34:41 - How to ask and provide for feedback 
  • 45:42 - How to find your circle sisters


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0:00.0

Free audio post-production by Alphonic.com.

0:10.0

My job is to somehow make them curious enough

0:16.0

or persuade them by hook or crow

0:20.0

to get more aware of themselves and where they came from and what

0:23.9

they are into and what is already there just to bring it out. This is what compels me to compel

0:30.6

them and I will do it by whatever means necessary. Welcome to the Black Girls Hill podcast, where we talk about healing our intimacy disorders,

0:40.6

unresolved trauma, and building a healthy relationship with first ourselves and then others.

0:46.0

Every episode, we will talk about advice you can apply today to break unhealthy patterns and grow in your self-work.

0:52.9

I'm Sheena Lachay, love addiction coach and trauma

0:55.3

specialist. Let's begin. Hello, hello, and welcome to the latest episode of Black

1:02.4

Girls Heal. I'm overjoyed to be with you again this week, sharing more topics around building

1:08.8

healthy friendships. Now, I am talking specifically about friendships

1:13.6

here on the podcast because though we focus on love addiction and love avoidance here on

1:18.7

Black Girl's heel and a trauma that causes it, your friendships are going to be the missing

1:22.9

key, your sisterhood tribe, the people who are around you holding space for you, your chosen family,

1:29.1

they are going to be one of the biggest keys in making sure that you break these cycles

1:33.6

because they will hopefully become your home base or a very significant part of your home base.

1:40.5

They are most likely going to be your main relationships that you're starting to practice,

1:44.6

being open with, being honest with, letting people in, working through conflict with, being fully

1:49.5

seen, loving each other when that other person can't really do anything for you through the good

1:55.6

and the bad and also learning how to receive love from people. Sometimes we wait to try to practice this in romantic

2:02.1

relationships and idolize that, but these sisterhood friendships are so key, especially if you

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