Ep. 3: Healing Black Love

Published: June 30, 2020, 9:30 a.m.

This episodes challenges black women to reconstruct their relationship with black love, understanding it to be something more expansive than a one-on-one relationship or a feeling of desirability. I will briefly cover the history of the divide between the black man and black woman as a result of systemic racism, beginning with the boarding of the slave ships. We will explore the the impact of systemic racism on the impact of the black family, and how these practices look in our community structure. Then, we will cover the importance of forgiveness in our progression as a black community on our road to self-acceptance. With deep self-hatred in the black psych, I will unfold the danger of shame on our mental health. We will take steps back in the process of love, discovering that we have been loving backwards as black women, uncovering a few toxic myths, and begin to start loving forward. I will conclude this podcast with a few tips for women to carry along with them in their journey through entrusting black love.