BEST MOMENTS of Ep. 157 with Bashea Williams
Express Yourself Black Man
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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In XYBM 157, we sit down with Bashea Williams, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Bashea breaks down what he sees most in his sessions with men — from emotional suppression rooted in traditional masculinity to the communication breakdowns that slowly damage relationships over time. Drawing from couples therapy, personal experience, and clinical frameworks, he helps us better understand validation, mirroring, boundaries, and the impact childhood trauma can have on the way we love as adults.
If you’ve ever struggled to communicate in relationships, felt misunderstood, or realized your past may be affecting the way you love today, this episode will leave you thinking differently about yourself, your relationships, and your healing
journey.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of husbands and fathers have been coming into session. |
| 0:03.2 | Okay. |
| 0:04.1 | Right. |
| 0:04.5 | Like, am I being a good father? |
| 0:06.3 | Okay. |
| 0:06.8 | Am I doing the right thing? |
| 0:07.9 | Because maybe they didn't have the example of a father. |
| 0:11.0 | Okay. |
| 0:11.6 | And they're comparing what they're doing to what they didn't get. |
| 0:16.5 | And so now there's this constant rat race of fatherhood and identity as a man in a home is saying, like, am I providing enough, right? |
| 0:24.6 | Am I spending enough time because I remember my dad wasn't there at all or my dad was just there when it was time to get off work, but he sat in a chair and he had his coffee or had his drink, but he wasn't connected. |
| 0:35.4 | What are you? |
| 0:35.6 | I'm missing that. |
| 0:36.8 | And so they're literally teaching them how to reparent themselves as a parenting them child, their child, their children. So reparenting is essentially like you didn't, you had an parenting, you had an experience with your parents, right? And maybe it was healthy, maybe it wasn't, right? If we're looking at the unhealthy parenting, then you want to |
| 0:55.2 | repair that, right? Okay. And they say, okay, I'm an adult now. Like, there's a little inner child |
| 0:59.9 | in me that still remembers the times that I got hit, the times where I didn't eat, the times where I |
| 1:05.5 | was neglected. And now that, sometimes that voice of your parents becomes yours. Right. |
| 1:11.6 | And so you're telling yourself something. |
| 1:12.6 | So now I get to speak that because as an adult, |
| 1:15.6 | I get to tell my younger self and give my younger self what it needs because it pops up. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.6 | So what you say for us, reparenting is a lot of, is a lot of, like, affirming our younger selves? |
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