#383: How Your Boundaries Create Your Life w. World-Renowned Psychotherapist Terri Cole
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Mimi Bouchard
4.4 • 953 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In this insightful episode, Terri Cole, psychotherapist, and relationship & empowerment expert, candidly shares how confronting alcoholism at age 17 and her cancer diagnosis became a catalyst for inspiring others, turning life's experiences into opportunities for positive change and becoming a thriving psychotherapist. Terri explains the art of setting boundaries in order to create and live a life of authenticity and growth. By focusing on the present and building self-assuredness, Terri explains how we all have the ability to live as the truest version of ourselves, feeling calm, clear, and grounded. With valuable insights on relationships, trauma, and personal growth, this episode is a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Don't miss the quick-fire round at the end of this episode where Terri shares specific scripts to gracefully assert boundaries!
Topics:
- How Terri’s family dynamics, growing up with an alcoholic father, and attending a 12-step meeting at the young age of 17 to confront her alcoholism led her to where she is today.
- How to recognize boundary issues and the importance of taking responsibility for life experiences.
– The power of therapy and the tangible tools it provides to create a new path.
- How to recognize patterns in relationships and address original emotional injuries.
- How Terri’s cancer diagnosis shifted her perspective and inspired her to have a career as a psychotherapist.
- Why it is essential to focus on the present to initiate meaningful change.
– How to build self-assuredness, know yourself, and value personal opinions to surround yourself with supportive people.
- The importance of boundaries as personal rules of engagement for healthier relationships and self-identity.
– Understanding codependency as fear-driven behavior and why boundaries are crucial.
- The power of saying ‘no’ and specific scripts to assertively set boundaries for a variety of specific situations.
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| 0:00.0 | I stopped doing drugs at 17 so that tells you what between 11 and 17 looked like. |
| 0:07.0 | She was running the meeting and she was like, oh hey, you know are you new here? |
| 0:11.0 | And I was like, yeah, and she's like well what brings you and I |
| 0:15.8 | honestly said my therapist said I had to go to a meeting when she was gonna break up with me |
| 0:20.4 | and she was like oh when I just to be polite I said to her what brings you |
| 0:25.2 | here and she said I killed a six-year-old boy in a drunk driving accident. |
| 0:30.2 | You literally only live once. |
| 0:33.5 | You are perfectly positioned right now in this exact moment |
| 0:37.8 | to create the ultimate life of your dreams. |
| 0:40.9 | Like, why are you waiting? |
| 0:42.2 | Why are you numbing? |
| 0:44.0 | When I learned that co-dependent love |
| 0:48.0 | was really about control, |
| 0:50.0 | it was so much easier to let the chips fall where they may, |
| 0:55.0 | especially when they're not your fricking chips. |
| 0:58.0 | My name's Mimi Bouchard, |
| 1:00.0 | founder of Superhuman, the transformational app that helps you become your future self, |
| 1:05.1 | so that you can finally start attracting more joy, abundance, health, wealth, and love into your life. |
| 1:11.9 | And that's also my mission on this podcast. Meet people whose lives have been |
| 1:16.6 | transformed in big and small ways, but always for the better. They tell me how they |
| 1:22.4 | did it so that you can too. |
| 1:25.3 | In today's incredible conversation with boundary boss Terry Cole, |
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