This is a short YouTube monologue by dating coach Anwar White (uploaded Feb 5, 2024) addressing how unresolved trauma and survival-mode behaviors—especially among Black and brown women—harm dating and relationships. The speaker explains a three-part model of the self (healed, trauma, survival) and argues that healing is necessary to form healthier relationships; the clip promotes the speaker’s coaching program.
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Millennial said, I have an irrational fear of putting myself out there due to my CIS and friends, dating and marriage trauma. Your job is to do it differently, do the healing. Here's the thing, most of our parents, many of our family members, don't do the work beforehand and have these really jacked up relationships. And then you get scared of love and dating because that's your model, and you think that that's how it's supposed to be, and it's not. That's what I do in my program, my job. Okay, so here's the gag, ladies. You have three parts to yourself. You have a healed part, you have a traumatic part or a trauma part, and you have a survival part. Now.
Just between us skin folk, the white girls are half healed, quarter survival, quarter trauma. The black girls are 40 survival, 40 trauma, and 20 healed. So why do. This is why I'm a dating coach for black and brown women. We have to heal and get out of survival mode to get into great relationships. That's why my program is focused on helping women become the best women that they can be.
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Here'S the thing. Because you have majority of survival and trauma, you will lean into people that have that as well, which create toxic and dysfunctional relationships.