Episode #243 Healing Hyper-independence with Nedra Tawwab

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Dr. Thema

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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New York Times bestselling author and therapist Nedra Tawwab shares her journey of discovering the need for finding healthy, dependable relationships instead of clinging to hyper-independence. She shares how others benefited while she paid the cost of staying strong for everyone else but neglecting her own needs. She shares her healing roadmap from her new book Balancing Act. Nedra Glover Tawwab is a licensed therapist and the author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, an instant New York Times best-seller translated into over 35 languages worldwide. In addition, she has authored six other books, including Drama Free and, most recently, a children's book titled What Makes You Happy. A sought-after relationship expert, she has practiced relationship therapy for more than fifteen years. With more than 2.5 million followers across her social media platforms, Tawwab has appeared as an expert on Red Table Talk, The Breakfast Club, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning Show, to name a few. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vice, and has appeared on numerous podcasts, including The School of Greatness, We Can Do Hard Things, and Ten Percent Happier. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family.Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share.

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0:00.0	Welcome home, cojourners. I'm glad you're here for another episode. I'm Dr. Tama, licensed
0:09.9	psychologist, ordained minister, and sacred artists, and we're here for an incredible episode
0:16.4	with my dear friend, Incredible New York Times bestselling author, Nedra Tawab. Welcome,
0:24.0	Nedra. Thank you for having me. Oh, I'm so glad for us to be in conversation again. And each of your
0:33.7	books has been such a blessing, not only for me to refer for my clients, but also for
0:39.9	myself. And so I have to give a personal thank you. Yes, yes, yes. Well, let me introduce
0:47.2	you to our community. Nedra Glover Tuwab is a licensed therapist and the author of Set Boundaries Find Peace,
0:57.0	an instant New York Times bestseller, translated into get this you all,
1:02.1	over 35 languages worldwide.
1:05.8	In addition, she has authored six other books, including drama-free and most recently, well, not most
1:12.6	recently, but also a children's book titled What Makes You Happy? A sought-after relationship
1:18.9	expert, she has practiced relationship therapy for more than 15 years. With more than 2.5
1:26.5	million followers across her social media platforms,
1:30.5	Tawab has appeared as an expert on Red Table Talk, the Breakfast Club, Good Morning America,
1:36.9	and CBS Morning Show, to name a few. Her work has been highlighted in the New York Times,
1:43.1	The Guardian, and Vice, and has appeared on numerous podcasts, including the School of Greatness, We Can Do Hard Things, 10% Happier, and most recently, Oprah.
1:56.2	Oh, yes. Yes. She lived in Charlotte, North Carolina with her family and her latest book, which we will be
2:06.1	talking about today, the balancing act.
2:09.3	I am so, so grateful for it and have asked her to start us off by reading an excerpt.
2:17.3	Oh, yes. So I want to tell you about the
2:21.6	excerpt I chose, which is about codependency, which is a popular non-clinical term.
2:31.0	The book is about codependency, hyper-independence.
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