#314: You Don't Have to Be the Family Savior
Black Girls Heal
Shena Lashey
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
For those who have felt they have given up much to take care of those in their family and it has become increasingingly overwhelming, this is for you.
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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 others. |
| 0:39.5 | Every episode, we will talk about advice you can apply today to bring unhealthy patterns and grow |
| 0:45.1 | in your self-work. I'm Sheena Lechay, love addiction coach and trauma specialist. Let's begin. |
| 0:52.8 | Hello, hello, and welcome to the latest episode of Black Girls' Heal. |
| 0:56.1 | I am so happy to be with you today. |
| 0:58.4 | So this is a special intro that is not on the YouTube version of this podcast. |
| 1:04.0 | I want to show up here just to share a disclaimer that this episode, I'm talking about |
| 1:09.6 | how you do not have to be the family savior for those |
| 1:12.4 | of us who feel like we have been an impossible decision when it comes to family and for those of us |
| 1:18.3 | are the family saviors and we may not have clocked it and so there are a lot of things that we feel |
| 1:23.0 | our responsibilities that have been told are our responsibilities and it feels very overwhelming, and it's |
| 1:29.3 | very stressful, and it's hard to know what we can let go, if anything, because if we don't do it, |
| 1:35.2 | who will? And so at the beginning of this episode, I will be sharing my story. I will be sharing |
| 1:40.7 | what it has looked like for me to be the family savior. We'll give me a little bit of family tea with that. |
| 1:47.8 | No worries, everything is good now, but there's a little bit of my backstory and also talking |
| 1:55.8 | about my mom's passing, so I wanted to let y'all know that, as I know the holiday season |
| 2:00.4 | can be really sensitive for |
| 2:02.9 | so many of us. And so just wanted to share that before we jump in. But that's it. I'll see you on the |
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