This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach, and on this show I will bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations

from my time on the front lines of the fascinating worlds

of entertainment, empowerment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode. Well hello and welcome to Hello Freedom I'm your host Terry Cole.

I'm super psyched that you're going to be hanging out with me today. This is an episode called Terry

Talks, which means that I'm not interviewing someone. It's just going to be me, Yacken.

And as I like to say, when I tell my I'm recording a Terry talks he says yes she does

So welcome today. I'm going to be talking about boundaries and the difficulty that if you're a highly sensitive

person, an empath, if you have cod dependent tendencies, how drawing boundaries can be

even more challenging

than other people who are not highly sensitive.

If you put everyone else's needs and feelings above your own,

so much so that you find it really, really difficult to draw comfortable boundaries

in your relationships.

Or if you're so afraid that if you assert yourself, if you say no, if you get clear about your

wishes, your preferences, your desires, that you might actually be jeopardizing their relationship.

This is the situation with people who are highly sensitive a lot of the times and especially

with people who suffer from codependency, which is tons and tons and tons of people.

And you guys have been writing in, and you want me to talk more about boundaries, and so I'm doing it.

I want you to consider the fact that maybe your challenges with drawing effective boundaries

or speaking authentically is really connected to the fact that you were never taught how to do it. And if you couple that with being highly sensitive,

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