How to Keep Your Big Day Drama-Free: Setting Boundaries with Dysfunctional Families

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Are you tired of your dysfunctional family hijacking your milestone events with chaos and negativity? This episode is for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) struggling with boundary-setting and dealing with energy vampires. Discover essential mental health strategies to set strong boundaries, protect your peace, and ensure your big day remains drama-free. We discuss how HSPs can navigate family dysfunction, manage manipulative behaviors, and avoid the pitfalls of people-pleasing. Learn how to reclaim control over your special moments and create a celebration free from emotional sabotage. This episode empowers you to take charge of your happiness and well-being. This week's episode feels like a PSA for People Pleasers. It comes out of the countless times I have held space for clients who's families have absolutely ruined their big days with chaos, negativity, competition, shaming, control issues, demanding their way, manipulation, drama tornados and passive aggressiveness. If you struggle with energy vampires or come from a moderate to severely dysfunctional family, you might want to give this a listen before planning your next big day or celebration. If you are interested in supporting us even more than a 5-star review, you can find Emotional Badass on Patreon where you will get hundreds of hours of bonus episodes, monthly video livestreams, discounts, community, and different opportunities to work with Nikki in group format https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass Resources: Download the free Morning Routine PDF to learn our techniques to help conquer your day! https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning-routine Community & Exclusive Bonus Episodes & Video: https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off Mapping your Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse Workshop https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops CODE: BADASS for 30% Off Brain.FM: CODE: Emotionalbadass for 20% off and a free month Join our newsletter for weekly wellness emails where we share mental health tips, announcements, discount codes, and highlight past episodes: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter Check out our Guided Meditations narrated by Nikki available for sale: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations Follow us on Social Media: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/emotionalbadass IG: https://www.instagram.com/emotional.badass FB: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalbadass Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/emotionalbadass Thank you for supporting this show by supporting our sponsors: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/sponsors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.0	And on today's episode, I'm exploring the irrational belief
1:22.0	that allows dysfunction to hijack milestone days. Oh, This feels like a deeply personal episode to me and also like a public service announcement.
1:52.4	It comes out of the countless times I have held space for
1:55.6	clients whose families have absolutely ruined their milestone days. Often wedding days, sometimes baptisms, graduations, we have big milestone days that we want to celebrate
2:09.5	with our families.
2:11.5	And I have witnessed countless people planning those days and then the aftermath of those days.
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