Life Question of the Week: 1.30.26
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5.0 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Today, our first letter comes from Tara: As a new mom, Tara is caught between keeping her heart open and protecting herself from constant criticism by her partner's family. How can she practice compassion and enforce healthy boundaries without continuing to get hurt?
Our next letter comes from Lebo in South Africa: Lebo feels anxious and diminished around family who value status and achievement over spirituality. How can they stay true to their deeper purpose without guilt or fear when their identity is so intertwined with family and culture?
Finally, Michael leads a meditation on coming into a Divine state of being and slowing down the aging process: "You're not looking for the fountain of youth. You're looking for the fountain of You."
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| 0:00.0 | Peace and Rich's blessings. I am Michael B. Beck with the host of Take Back Your Mind. Listen, listen, there's a broadcast. Please. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Michael Bebeckwith, as you know, |
| 0:43.3 | founder of the Agapha International Spiritual Center |
| 0:45.6 | and your host on Take Back Your Mind, Life Questions of the Week. |
| 0:51.3 | And we have a couple of questions right here, |
| 0:53.9 | and I thank you for tuning in. |
| 0:55.9 | First question comes from Tara. She says, how do you uphold healthy boundaries while keeping |
| 1:03.4 | your heart open? I'm a new mom, and my partner's family frequently criticizes me. |
| 1:10.9 | It feels like death by a thousand cuts. |
| 1:15.0 | Behind the scenes, I try to forgive them, |
| 1:17.3 | work on self-esteem, and keep my heart open to them |
| 1:19.9 | in order to honor their relationship with my baby. |
| 1:23.8 | But then that opens me up to even more of their criticisms. |
| 1:27.1 | And I get even more hurt. |
| 1:29.3 | How can I be compassionate and loving towards them while enforcing boundaries at the same time |
| 1:36.3 | so I don't get hurt? |
| 1:38.3 | Tatar, I'm sorry that you're growing through this. |
| 1:42.3 | It's particularly having a newborn baby. You're more sensitive at this time that you're growing through this. It's particularly having a newborn baby. |
| 1:46.0 | You're more sensitive at this time in your life |
| 1:48.0 | after giving birth to a young child at this time. |
| 1:52.0 | So the criticisms must feel really, really hurtful. |
| 1:57.0 | So you're asking, how do you hold healthy boundaries |
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