#337: Summer Sabbatical Relationships for Self Love

Black Girls Heal

Shena Lashey

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

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What would change if you truly believed you were worthy of love, peace, and care?

In this episode of the Black Girls Heal Podcast, I am inviting you into a deeper conversation about self-love, emotional healing, and reconnecting with the relationship you have with yourself.

Through guided reflection, journaling prompts, and future-self visualization, you'll explore the beliefs, experiences, and relationships that have shaped your sense of worth. This episode is designed to help you slow down, nurture yourself, and create space for the version of you that feels more grounded, secure, peaceful, and connected.

In this episode, you'll explore:

✨ Taking an honest inventory of your relationship with yourself

✨ Examining the voices that have shaped your self-worth

✨ Releasing beliefs and relationships that no longer align

✨ Learning how to receive love, support, and affirmation

✨ Defining the future version of yourself you want to become

✨ Visualizing life after healing and inner growth

✨ Giving yourself permission to grow, heal, and evolve

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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.
0:52.8	Hello, hello. Welcome to the latest episode. Today we are talking about optimizing
0:58.4	our summer to focus on our self-love, to grow, and to feel more connected to our inner child,
1:04.6	our inner person, our highest self. So in today's episode, I'm going to be going over several
1:09.2	steps that you can follow to process
1:11.4	this on your own and to work through it this summer. Now, this is inspired by the fact that I am going
1:16.7	on sabbatical. This is actually a part two last week. I talked about the reasons why I'm going
1:21.9	on sabbatical and the short verse is to focus on being with my son, to focus on grounding my nervous system,
1:29.2	taking a break, all that jazz, and hopes of returning back at the end of fall, or whenever I feel
1:34.2	inspired to do so, rejuvenated and ready to continue to teach and serve and all that.
1:40.2	But I wanted to leave some real tangible task, tools, homework for you to do to go deeper in the things that we talk about here.
1:49.3	So last week, I did summer homework for us when it comes to relationship goals.
1:53.5	For those of us who want to cultivate and grow healthy relationships, I gave homework there for you to write out, for you to do.
2:04.0	It was a lot. And so if you've done it,
2:08.2	I hope that you have found a lot of relief from it. If you have started it, but you had to take some pauses, that is to be expected. It is a lot to work through and a lot to process.
2:13.8	So go ahead, be patient with yourself, allow yourself to take the amount of time needed.
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