This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach, and on this show I will bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations

from my time on the front lines of the fascinating worlds of entertainment,

empowerment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode. Well, hello and welcome to Hello Freedom. I am your host Terry Cole.

As always I am thrilled, excited and honored that you decided to spend a little bit of time with me

today talking about one of my favorite topics, Boundaries. In today's episode we are going

to be handling how you can manage boundary bullies in your life, including

narcissists.

So let's get to it. How do we deal with them? The truth is that we have to deal with ourselves first.

So before I can get into any tips and strategies and I will give you them by the end of this video you have to really look at yourself because all of us have

Blueprints like downloaded blueprints that got downloaded in childhood from experiences that we had.

So it isn't, I can't give you a blanket statement that says

this is exactly how you personally should handle boundary bullies. I'm going to give you some

strategies and tips that I know will work with any boundary bully even a

narcissist, but in order for you to know which ones you're most comfortable using you have to

understand how did your relationship to boundaries and to bullies come into place.

Where in your young life, where did you learn how to draw boundaries?

Or where did you learn that it was not okay to draw boundaries?

Did you have a boundary bully in your life growing up?

Was one of your parents very domineering and were you not allowed to have boundaries.

So anyway, the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to ask, I'm going to ask you a couple

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