How Setting Boundaries Can Create Peace with Nedra Tawwab
The Preamble
Sharon McMahon
4.9 • 15.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, seasoned relationship therapist and bestselling author Nedra Tawwab graces us with her wisdom and teaches us how to set boundaries and navigate relationships. Nedra explains how we can reclaim ourselves by breaking our people-pleasing tendencies and learning to honor our personal needs, safety and mental wellbeing. Nedra offers a wealth of advice, ranging from specific language we can use when setting and maintaining boundaries to ways we can diffuse heated political arguments with a friend or family member. As well, she discusses how we can reconcile difficult relationships and exit unhealthy ones, all while learning how to be more accepting of others. There’s a whole lot to learn in this episode - let’s dive into the world of setting boundaries!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my friends welcome I am pumped to share this conversation with you today. I |
| 0:06.8 | know firsthand that you are going to get so much out of listening to the wisdom of author and therapist Nedra To Wob. |
| 0:17.0 | If you already follow her, you already know how much goodness she is bringing to the table. |
| 0:20.6 | I sometimes feel like my own Instagram account could just become a |
| 0:24.1 | Nedra To-Wabry post account that is how valuable her wisdom is so if you have |
| 0:30.4 | ever had trouble navigating anxiety or boundaries |
| 0:34.7 | when it comes to difficult conversations with people, |
| 0:37.8 | this is going to be so incredibly helpful to you. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm going to stop talking so you can hear the wisdom of |
| 0:45.0 | Nedra To-Wab. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So |
| 0:50.3 | podcast. Hello, how are you? I'm well, how are you? I'm great. Thank you so much for doing this. Tell me about how you got to be doing the work that you're doing. |
| 1:04.1 | When did your interest in this topic of boundaries begin? |
| 1:09.0 | How did you get to be who you are today? |
| 1:11.6 | Fourteen years ago, I became a therapist and very early on, I would say in my internship, my first client was a young |
| 1:20.0 | adult who wanted to gain some independence from their family and the family was over-involved. |
| 1:28.0 | And so we talked a lot about how to become an adult. |
| 1:33.4 | And after that I went on and have many different clients |
| 1:36.7 | and lots of the things came back to, |
| 1:39.6 | how do we express our needs to other people. And once I started looking at a lot of the issues we were addressing was, |
| 1:48.6 | why do I help people express their needs to others. |
| 1:53.7 | It clicked for me that we are doing the work of boundaries. |
| 1:58.0 | And that is with my work with couples, |
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