Well, hello, and welcome to the Terry Cole Show. I want to start this episode with a couple of questions.

So I'm going to ask you to take a deep breath and close your eyes and really think about these questions.

If you can, if you can, if you can close your eyes, put yourself in this position.

When you know you need to set a limit with someone, you need to draw a boundary. Do you labor over the words forever and still end up feeling like it came out wrong?

When you wait too long to draw a boundary or tell someone you have a problem with them,

does it ever come out like an explosion rather than a calm and simple request?

Does it ever?

Or do you avoid asking for what you want or speaking up about something

because you simply don't have the words and you really can't deal with the drama?

Any of that resonating with any of you? Okay, open your eyes. If you are new to this crew, my name is Terry Cole and I'm a licensed

psychotherapist, a relationship expert, and the author of Boundary Boss coming out April 20th

2021. My first book, wow I'm super excited and what I wanted to say I want to shout out because you guys are just

so kind and I want to shout out to who's the person oh Gina de Vee you're just the

sweetest because here's the, I know you guys could be listening

to a Zillion other podcast that are also really great.

And it really warms my heart and thrills me

that you're here hanging out with me. So I want to shout out to

Gina who left this beautiful review. She just wrote on iTunes. Love this woman

such great content and a world where there is so much fluff

Terry brings genuine and real to a whole new level.

Oh, thanks so much, Gina. You are a sweetheart and the rest of you know listen this is this is my mission in life is to help as many people as possible so when you leave a review for the Terry Cole Show or anywhere on your favorite listening

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