How to Have Healthy Boundaries | E52

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

YAP Media Network | Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 890 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2014

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We all want to have good relationships -- our connections with others are central to authentic happiness. But the dark side of having a vibrant life with lots of people in it is that sometimes we feel imposed upon, hassled, crowded and disappointed by the people we’re trying to have relationships with. And thats where boundaries come in. As important as it is to be generous, and empathic, and loving towards others, if we aren’t mindful of our own boundaries and healthy limits we can give too much. The truth is that not everyone is a safe person for us to be emotionally close to, and to sacrifice for. But how to you figure out where to draw that line? Setting and maintaining boundaries is a complex process, with many aspects to it. On today's episode of the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast, I'm teaching you the first step in creating and maintaining healthy boundaries: Getting to know who you're dealing with. Only then can you figure out what boundaries are appropriate. This is a technique I teach my private clients all the time. It will help you figure out what stage of relationship you are in, when you should keep your guard up, and when to feel okay about relaxing your boundaries.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success podcast.
0:29.5	Today on the Love Happiness and Success podcast, we're going to be talking about boundaries,
0:33.7	the building blocks of healthy relationships.
0:36.8	Having healthy boundaries, it's hard.
0:56.9	And sometimes I think it's even hard for people to know what that means. What does having healthy boundaries even mean, particularly if healthy boundaries haven't been modeled for us. And it's just hard to even get a sense of what is okay to do in relationships and what isn't okay.
1:00.1	When are my boundaries being violated?
1:02.3	When am I potentially violating somebody else's?
1:05.0	And so that's where we're going today.
1:13.4	We're going to be talking about boundaries, how to set healthy boundaries and how to maintain them. And learning how to do this you will be able to have healthier higher quality and more sustainable relationships so
1:19.9	I think it's an important topic and I'm excited to be talking with you about it today
1:24.0	but first of all if we haven't yet met, let me introduce myself. I'm Dr.
1:30.8	Lisa Marie Bobby. I'm trained as a psychologist, a marriage and family therapist, and a life
1:37.1	coach. So I have three different areas of my practice. And I'm in private practice in Denver,
1:42.6	Colorado. But so I specialize in love, happiness, and success.
1:48.4	And I work with lots of people, helping them have better relationships, feel happier on
1:55.0	the inside, get more enjoyment out of their lives, and also be more successful, feel like
2:00.0	they're being more effective or better
2:03.2	able to achieve their goals.
2:05.5	So that's what I'm working towards.
2:07.6	And that is what the love, happiness and success podcast is all about is helping you have
2:15.3	better relationships, feel happier, and feel like you can do better in the areas of
2:20.5	your life that are most important to you. And so I put out this little podcast as a way of
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