Boundaries & Self-Trust in Relationships
This Changes Everything with Sarah Rice
Sarah Rice - Wave Podcast Network
4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we explore a powerful connection that quietly shapes every relationship in your life: the way you treat yourself is how you teach others to treat you. We examine how core beliefs we carry about our worth, love, and safety don’t just live in our minds, they shape our behavior, relationships, and what we tolerate. We break down how these beliefs are formed through childhood dynamics and past relationships, and how they show up in adulthood through patterns. We will also guide you through a simple exercise to help identify your own core beliefs in real time. We also consider boundaries and how they are not about pushing people away, but about defining self-respect in action, are one of the clearest expressions of self-love, communicate what you will and won’t accept, and create the structure that allows relationships to feel safe, honest, and sustainable. This episode is a conversation about self-trust, emotional awareness, and what it really means to stop abandoning yourself in the name of love.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and welcome once again to everybody's favorite therapy theme podcast. I'm your host Sarah and today we're talking about something that I would say really shapes, I don't know, pretty much every relationship we have. And that's our nervous system. I think a lot of people think that relationships are maybe about finding the right person, but, and yes, it is also |
| 0:24.3 | about finding a right person, but also relationships really teach us so much about ourselves, |
| 0:31.2 | and they activate this, well, sometimes unresolved part of us, right? |
| 0:39.7 | They can activate our fears. |
| 0:46.9 | They trigger attachment wounds and coping mechanisms, survival patterns, things that we learned, |
| 0:49.2 | like way before we even started dating. |
| 0:56.2 | And if we don't understand those patterns, then what happens is we end up making these mistakes and really confusing emotional activation for love. |
| 1:01.4 | I think last week I talked a little bit about how we can be in relationships where we are |
| 1:09.7 | aroused. And I don't mean aroused in like a sexual way, |
| 1:13.7 | but I mean aroused in like a physiological way where something about this person makes us feel |
| 1:21.6 | very intensely drawn to them and almost makes us anxious because this anxiety feels kind of familiar. And what that |
| 1:30.2 | leads to is we can end up distrusting calm people because peace feels so unfamiliar. And we can often |
| 1:37.1 | confuse chemistry with unpredictability and attachment with emotional safety. |
| 1:45.5 | And if all of that feels familiar, then we end up repeating these same relationship dynamics over and over and over without really understanding why. |
| 1:55.6 | Because this is like our default programming. |
| 1:59.5 | This is what feels familiar. |
| 2:01.4 | If we have an insecure attachment or an anxious attachment, whatever it may be, attachment |
| 2:06.8 | injuries, then something that's unhealthy is going to feel familiar and we're going to be |
| 2:13.8 | attracted to that. |
| 2:15.3 | So we have to learn more about what our nervous system is telling us |
| 2:21.0 | and what our nervous system has been trained to believe love feels like. Because that's really what |
| 2:26.8 | it is. It's what is our nervous system been trained to feel like. We're going to get into all of that. |
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