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Well, hello, my name is Terry Cole, and I'm a licensed psychotherapist and the author of Boundary

Boss and you're listening to Ignited Motivation. Today I'm going to be breaking down the true nature

of healthy boundaries and walking you through your Boundary Boss Bill of Rights, which is right

at the beginning of my new book because it's basically the foundation for

healthy boundaries. There is a lot of misinformation and a lot of myths out there about boundaries

that if you're good at establishing or enforcing boundaries, you must be mean or rejecting

or confronting which none of those things are true, because in

reality, you can always assert your boundaries with kindness, with ease, with grace, and when

appropriate, with love. But we need to learn how to do it. So I want you to think about boundaries

as a skill set, just like a language unto itself. You I want you to think about boundaries as a skill set just like a language

unto itself. You wouldn't expect to be fluent in any foreign language simply because you really

wished that you were. You would know that you needed to learn the basics of that language

before you could be fluent. This is the same exact thing with boundaries. So the good news is

you can definitely learn and I am more than happy to guide you on that boundary boss journey.

So let's start with the boundary boss bill of rights and we'll go from there. You have the right

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