Love Rehab: Healing, Loving, and Thriving with Kia
Self Love with Kia Smith
🌿 Oasis: Tribe with the Vibes E16
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Description:
In this powerful, full circle OTWV episode, we sit down with Kia Smith, author of Love Rehab Vol 1 & 2 and a creative force in Black literature, to talk about self-love, healing, creativity, and turning pain into purpose. Kia opens up about her glow-up season, getting past writer’s block, and how periods of hibernation often lead to powerful comebacks. We celebrate her newest book, released in December, and the upcoming April Cali Author Takeover in Los Angeles, while also honoring the joy of being an avid reader—from Pizza Hut reading challenges to today’s vibrant Black writer’s community.
The conversation flows through love, dating, and relationships, including why men should be clearer about commitment, thoughts on public proposals, co-parenting with intention, and why familiar pain can feel safer than unknown growth. Kia reads a powerful excerpt from Love Rehab 2, reminding us that healing starts with the self, self-love is sacred and must be cultivated daily. We also explore ways to process loss, loving your clinicians, literary citizenship, and focusing on what could go right instead of what might go wrong.
This episode also touches on Kia’s #writeyourselfaloveletter challenge, the role and influence of social media, spiritual recharging through solitude, and what it means to move with purpose in love, career, and creativity. From Chicago to Valentine’s Day releases, Black author spaces like The Black Writer’s Room on Facebook, and the exciting news of OTWV Season 2 going abroad, this episode is packed with inspiration, heart, and real talk about what it means to truly love yourself with Kia leaving this nugget for the audience, “It’s going to require a lot from you, it’s going to be hard, but it’s going to be worth it.”
🎧 Tune in for a soulful conversation about self-worth, writing, relationships, and healing—because self-love is the ultimate form of abundance.
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode includes themes of stress, anxiety, toxic work environments, abuse, relationship trauma, divorce, covid, loss, and physical neglect. Please listen with care.
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