After cutting off my family, how do I stop worrying about their reaction?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Julie Hanks coaches KayJay and addresses the question “After cutting off my family, how do I stop worrying about their reaction?” Setting boundaries can be hard for anyone, but especially difficult for those who are self-defined “people pleasers.” During this episode, Dr. Hanks guides KayJay and shares that this is going to be an exercise in all the things she fears and how to tolerate that. Are people going to be mad at you when you distance yourself? Is it going to impa...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your fate. I'm your host
0:29.1	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships. Join me here every
0:39.2	week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them with tools to find healing.
0:45.2	I'm so excited to have KJ on the show today. Welcome, KJ. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here.
0:53.5	Thanks for taking the time. What is your question for me today?
0:57.7	So I kind of have a myriad of three questions. Okay. The first one is, so a little bit of background. My husband and I have recently decided to kind of end a relationship and stop seeing certain members of his family because of some
1:12.6	really toxic behaviors, stuff that has included lying, manipulating, religious shaming,
1:19.3	excessive blaming, things like that. And so my first question is, what can I do to stop
1:25.8	worrying about their reaction to mine and my husband's
1:29.2	decision to stop seeing them?
1:31.9	Okay.
1:32.5	So do you know what their reaction is?
1:35.5	Yeah.
1:35.8	They're very angry about it.
1:37.7	Okay.
1:38.5	Very angry and hurt and have also kind of pushed back in setting their own boundaries of not allowing the family
1:47.0	to tell us anything about their life updates and things like that.
1:50.6	Gotcha.
1:51.2	Okay.
1:52.1	So what's your biggest worry about them and their response?
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