3663: Trojan Horses and Flying Dice by Dr. Kelly Flanagan on Healthy Boundaries and Relationships

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3663: Dr. Kelly Flanagan explores the invisible walls we build around our hearts and minds, revealing how these boundaries shape our relationships, protect our sense of self, and sometimes isolate us. He offers powerful insights into how therapy helps us thoughtfully renovate these walls, neither tearing them down nor fortifying them blindly, but crafting doors that allow connection on our terms. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://drkellyflanagan.com/trojan-horses-and-flying-dice/ Quotes to ponder: "Perhaps the biggest walls, the most important walls, are the ones that cannot be seen at all." "Therapy is not meant to be a wrecking ball for the walls we have built. Therapy is a place where our walls are given the renovation they require." "Not a revolving door, where anyone can come and go as they please, but a door of our choosing, that opens from the inside, a door that makes it possible for you to confidently invite people in to your lonely space, because it is good to have company we can trust." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.4	By Dr. Kelly Flanagan of Dr. Kellyflanagan.com.
0:39.2	And I'm Justin Mollick.
0:40.8	I'm going to jump right into today's post as we optimize your life.
0:48.4	Trojan Horses and Flying Dice by Dr. Kelly Flanagan of Dr. Kellyflanagan.com.
0:55.7	Walls are everywhere in the world we walk through. They keep the heat in the house and the snow
1:02.3	and the wind out. They give us borders clarifying where our land stops and another's begins.
1:09.5	They keep those that break rules and commit crimes in a place apart.
1:14.3	They keep the water and the reservoirs. When planes hit them, they fall down and it changes everything.
1:21.0	We memorialize our heroes on them. We build them big, so big, they are the only things we create
1:27.4	that can be seen from space.
1:29.4	It's like we're advertising to the universe, walls matter on this big spinning rock.
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