Self Love Lounge is a space to remind you to be yourself. Areena Antoine invites you into her journey of becoming the safest place for her inner child while building the life she has always dreamed of. In between the heartbreak, the lessons, the relationships, the starting over, the becoming, and everything life asks of you, she shares the things she is learning along the way. Sometimes through conversations with others, sometimes through conversations with herself. Because maybe self-love isn’t about having yourself figured out. Maybe it’s about learning how to come home to yourself again.
What happens when you write your name at the centre of a blank piece of paper? You realize you can be a kind person and still have a very selective life. In this episode, Areena reflects on what it means to put yourself on the priority list and asks: What could happen now that I actually know what matters? Perhaps you lose your old life, but finally have the space to choose a life that inspires you, and is freakin’ yours.
Self Love Lounge is now releasing episodes Areena never released before through To Build Her Home (https://www.tobuildherhome.ca/), a storytelling house for Black and Brown women. These stories are part of a new chapter in Areena’s journey, where the lessons she once explored on Self Love Lounge continue to live through To Build Her Home in writing.
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23 Aug 2026
How to Save Yourself
At 19, I was forced into loneliness and thought it was something happening to me. In this episode, I reflect on betrayal, being accused of something I didn’t do, and finding myself with the truth in my hands, but choosing to heal instead of using it against the people who hurt me. I talk about how the people we allow into our lives can shape us, for better or for worse, and how that experience taught me about discernment, protecting my peace, and choosing solitude. Now, at 27, I’m creating the space I need to build a life that has my name all over it.
13 Aug 2026
Call Me the Bad Guy
Dear you,
Maybe I’m the bad guy. I used to think being a good girl meant being nice, understanding, and accommodating. But what happens when being nice starts costing you your relationship with yourself?
This episode is based on a true story. I’m talking about rejection, boundaries, loneliness, being misunderstood, and the uncomfortable realization that sometimes choosing yourself means disappointing people.
But what if being the bad guy isn’t about becoming someone you’re not? What if it’s about finally becoming the woman you were too afraid to be? And maybe, for the first time, she gets to feel free.
Warmly,
Areena
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
8 ratings
Spotify
4.8 / 5
21 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 24 / 100
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Engagement
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