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We Can Do Hard Things

124. How to Say No: Boundaries with Nedra Glover Tawwab

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.841.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

1. Five signs that you might have a boundary problem. 2. Why each of us should stop pretending we’re not a needy person. 3. How to stop arguing like a lawyer – and start communicating like a kindergartener – to get what you need. 4. How to know when to end an argument, how to exit a friendship, and how to respond to passive aggressiveness. About Nedra: Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW, is a New York Times best-selling author, licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert. She has practiced relationship therapy for 15 years and is the founder and owner of the group therapy practice, Kaleidoscope Counseling. Every day she helps people create healthy relationships by teaching them how to implement boundaries. Her philosophy is that a lack of boundaries and assertiveness underlie most relationship issues, and her gift is helping people create healthy relationships with themselves and others. Nedra earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She has additional certifications in working with families and couples and in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, plus advanced training for counseling adults who've experienced childhood emotional neglect. Nedra has appeared as an expert on Red Table Talk, The Breakfast Club, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning Show to name a few. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vice and has appeared on numerous podcasts, including Good Life Project, Sofia with an F, and Therapy For Black Girls. She runs a popular Instagram account where she shares practices, tools, and reflections for mental health and hosts weekly Q&As. TW: @NedraTawwab IG: @nedratawwab To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And I continue to believe that I'm the one for me.

0:12.0

Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things.

0:14.5

I just want you all, Pod's Waters, to know that you just missed a scintillating conversation

0:19.4

between the three of us, where I asked everyone to please watch their facial expressions

0:25.1

on the pad, because my listening face is what is it?

0:29.7

It's so weird.

0:31.6

It's different.

0:32.6

It's different.

0:33.6

My face, the way it looks.

0:34.6

I'm listening hard.

0:35.6

Yeah.

0:36.6

When you're in your active listening, you get your squint dye, and you have one eye that

0:40.8

squints a little bit more than the other, and then your mouth goes down.

0:44.3

Yes.

0:45.3

It's special, and it's because I'm concentrating really hard.

0:48.7

I know.

0:49.7

It's because I'm really, and by the way, my whole life I thought, oh, my eye just squints,

0:54.9

but really my eyes are two different sizes.

0:57.9

Mine are two.

0:58.9

Yeah.

0:59.9

They are.

1:00.9

I just thought it happened in pictures, because I didn't.

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