Dr. Shainna Ali: mental health counselor, educator, advocate, and bestselling author of The Self-Love Workbook — joins Samantha to talk about her newest book, Generational Healing: Shifting Patterns, Creating Change.In this conversation, Dr. Shainna shares the real clinical definition of self-love (“the practice of accepting, caring for, and intending to yourself”), why parenthood reawakens generational patterns and why that isn’t backsliding, her own story of living with undiagnosed childhood anxiety, and the rushing pattern she traced back through her Guyanese heritage — and how she now answers it with “I am safe now.”They also get into the practical stuff: what to do when you have zero bandwidth (surviving is the healing), why boundaries are gates with key codes rather than walls, why the book never asks anyone to forgive or reconcile, what it means that you are already an ancestor, how to reparent yourself while actively parenting your kids, and how to tell mom burnout apart from just being tired. She closes with the book’s final line — “the radiance was always within you” — and one thing to do differently at the dinner table tonight.Links mentioned in this episode:

• Dr. Shainna Ali’s website: https://drshainna.com/
• Pre-order Generational Healing: Shifting Patterns, Creating Change on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1646048989/ref=as_li_ss_tl
• The Mental Wellness Practice Podcast: https://drshainna.com/thementalwellnesspracticepodcast
• Follow Dr. Shainna on Instagram: @drshainna

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