What One Year of No Contact w/ My Mother Taught Me

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

**** This episode has cussing and also goes into detail about childhood trauma/abuse****

It’s been one full year since I went no contact with my mother. In this episode, I’m reflecting on how I spent the day, the grief and grounding I’ve moved through, and three lessons I’ve learned since choosing distance over dysfunction. This isn’t about being strong or unbothered—it’s about what happens when you choose peace and refuse to shrink, even when people expect you to go back.

I’m sharing this episode for anyone who's navigating estrangement, emotional distance, or rebuilding themselves after breaking ties. You’re not alone. And no, you’re not wrong for choosing yourself.

In this episode, I share:

How I spent the one-year anniversary
3 real lessons from going no contact
The ways I’ve learned to honor myself
How people will try to guilt you

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, what's going on? You are listening to the Brown Girl Self Care podcast.
0:07.8	My name is Bree. I'm the host of the show as well as the founder of Brown Girl Self-Care.
0:13.0	Brown-Girl self-care is a platform and space of intentional healing, joy, rest, and abundance for black women. Let's go ahead and jump right on into today's
0:24.0	episode, sis, because it is a doozy. This is a part of my truth. This is a part of my healing
0:31.4	journey. I know for a fact that there are other black women out there right now listening to
0:36.9	the sound of my voice that
0:37.8	are going through or have gone through something similar. If you guessed by the title,
0:43.1	I am sharing part of my go like no contact journey. I've mentioned it here and there in little
0:52.3	pieces over the last year on the Brown Girl Self-Care podcast, but because today, as of this recording, because today is the exactly one year anniversary, a full year has gone by that I have not spoken with my parent at all. There's been no
1:13.5	communication, no contact, no text, no phone calls, no nothing, okay? It has been exactly one
1:22.4	full year as of this recording. And so I said to myself, self, I want to talk about this a little bit more.
1:31.9	I want to share a little bit about this a little bit more because, again, I know for a fact
1:37.4	that there are other black women right now, many, many black women right now that are in a similar situation, have gone through a
1:48.8	similar situation, or are considering this type of thing for their life or this type of boundary
1:57.4	for their life. So yeah, girl, today is one full year. And I'm going to share with you
2:03.6	three things I have realized along the way in this last year. Okay. So I'm not here to,
2:14.5	just I guess a disclaimer. I'm not here to justify my decision. I don't need people telling me
2:22.5	what to do. I don't need people sending me messages saying anything in regards to what I have
2:30.0	chosen other than support. If you decide to leave a comment, if you decide to reach out,
2:37.2	great. But I will not respond if it requires me to justify anything that is discussed in
2:46.1	this episode, okay? Because that's just, I'm not doing that. I don't need to do that and neither do you if you're
2:53.4	going through a similar situation okay i'm here sharing this with you i am literally opening up my
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