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Black Girls Heal

#327: 3 Tips to Cope With a Breakup

Black Girls Heal

Shena Lashey

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

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Breakups are painful.

But when you struggle with love addiction, trauma bonding, or unresolved childhood wounds, breakups can feel devastating, consuming, and nearly impossible to move through.

In this episode, I break down how to navigate heartbreak when your nervous system is deeply activated and your attachment patterns are involved.

This conversation is about compassion and not criticism.

Awareness and not shame.

And breaking generational patterns, not repeating them.

If you relate to symptoms of love addiction, love avoidance, or love deprivation, download our free roadmap.



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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 Lachay, love addiction coach and trauma specialist. Let's begin.

0:52.7

So you're heartbroken. He taught your best in this relationship to stay open to make it

0:57.3

work and you have to cut it off. Or maybe you let go when the disrespect, the neglect, the back

1:03.3

and forth got to be too much. Whatever it is, the heartbreak is real. It is here and you're

1:08.3

wanting to know how do I work through this and especially how do I

1:11.0

work through this if I have symptoms of love addiction which makes breakouts 10 times harder.

1:15.4

I wouldn't give you three tips today to work through breakups and hopes that it helps you get

1:19.0

in the right direction. So love addiction is a persistent obsession of a person, a relationship,

1:23.3

or the fantasy of who that person or that relationship could possibly be and mistaking that intensity and that obsession for love.

1:30.0

And because of that intense relationship, you may self-abandoned,

1:32.7

you may continue to stay in a relationship past the expiration date,

1:36.2

you may return back to it,

1:37.5

or you may find that you're consistently in relationships of that nature.

1:40.7

And so usually people who experience love-addictive relationships

1:43.6

when it comes to

1:44.5

breaking ties with people, they don't do it because of the extreme pain that happens when they try

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