Black couch podcast

This episode speaks about the African phrases that are used to describe men that then deprives them on acknowledging their vulnerability and also that they are emotionally beings.

This episodes speaks about people pleaser and fixers . Their emotional unavailability to themselves . Their resentment towards self for over extending themselves . How they have defined the function to people around them . Recovering from people pleasing and going for therapy.

Understanding the human in healers that they cannot always be accessible as they also need to take care of themselves to still serve . Healers also have lives and exist outside of the role of being healers . Healers also need to recharge and live and just be.

This episode speaks about the mental health of mothers that try to be perfect in their parenting as opposed to being a good enough parent . Mothers have kids with a mental illness .It also speaks about mothers that have lost their babies through still birth and miscarriages . Mothers that have chosen not to keep their babies through abortion . The grieving of their babies .

Sometimes we look for qualities in other people that we are unable to give to ourselves . So we would then want our partners to over extend themselves even in spaces in a relationship that we need to be stepping in . When you haven’t learnt to give yourself what you ask from others you wouldn’t know how to be your own reference .

This episode speaks about inner child wounds . How they result in us being the adults that we are . How we navigate the relationship with ourselves and also with others .

This episode speaks about the underlying meaning of why people usually say they do not believe in therapy and what therapy really is . Context play a huge role on how we end up defining what therapy really is .

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