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Nedra Glover-Tawab is a licensed therapist and the New York Times best-selling author of set boundaries

find peace, a guide to reclaiming yourself. She is literally the woman who put the conversation

about boundaries on the map. So it is an honor to have her on the show today to talk about, yes,

all things boundaries. Nedra, welcome. Thank you for having me. It's such an honor to have you,

you know, in many ways, you and your runaway best-selling book Shedalite or created the boundaries

conversation if you if you will. And I think led so many people, including myself, to take

full inventory of the boundaries in our lives or lack thereof in some instances. With that said,

for those who are maybe unfamiliar with your work, people may have been living in the woods.

For the past year, I feel like you've been everywhere. Can you start by just giving a brief

primer on how you think about boundaries? I think of boundaries as rules, expectations, parameters,

needs that we have for ourselves and that we express to others and we uphold within our relationships

and our culture and our interactions with people and all sorts of things. It is basically

operating manual for who we are and what we need. And it seems like we're not so good at setting

boundaries, specifically healthy boundaries. Well, sometimes we are good in some areas and not

others. There are many of us who are excellent at setting boundaries, maybe at work and terrible

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