#319: How to Put Yourself First Pt. 1
Black Girls Heal
Shena Lashey
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In this episode, I dive into the foundational steps of learning how to truly put yourself first without guilt, fear, or feeling like you’re letting others down.
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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 bring 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. Today we are talking about |
| 0:57.5 | prioritizing ourselves and putting ourselves first. We are our most important relationship. |
| 1:02.7 | How we feel about ourselves, how we treat ourselves, what we say to ourselves, what we give to |
| 1:07.2 | ourselves, what we allow ourselves to receive shows up in every single area of our |
| 1:12.1 | life and every domain in our life. And so we have to learn how to see a relationship with |
| 1:17.7 | ourselves as our most important relationship. There are multiple different ways that people approach |
| 1:22.0 | this. There are so many domains that we can look at. We can look at our mental health. We can |
| 1:26.4 | look at our physical health. We can look at our financial health. We can look at our physical health. We can look at |
| 1:27.9 | our financial health, our sexual health, right? And I'm sure there's other domains of health that I |
| 1:33.2 | haven't listed. And so what I want to do for today and for the next couple of episodes is really |
| 1:38.9 | focus and hone in on what does it look like to put ourselves first specifically. Why is it important? Where are the places |
| 1:46.4 | that we can expect to see change when we do so? What are some examples of it? And also, how might this |
| 1:52.2 | show up in our relationships where it may apply? Now, let me be clear that focusing on ourselves |
| 1:57.7 | as our most important person is the answer to any and all of our relationship |
| 2:02.1 | else. If we are in a relationship that is really conflictual and we're feeling neglected and we're |
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