Loving Yourself, Core Beliefs, Boundaries, and Self Abandonment Patterns
This Changes Everything with Sarah Rice
Sarah Rice - Wave Podcast Network
4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of This Changes Everything, we explore a powerful connection that quietly shapes every relationship in your life: the way you treat yourself is how you teach others to treat you.
At the center of the conversation are core beliefs, the invisible, often unconscious stories we carry about our worth, love, and safety. Beliefs like “I’m too much,” “I have to earn love,” or “If I set boundaries, I’ll be rejected” don’t just live in our minds. They shape our behavior, our relationships, and what we tolerate.
We break down how these beliefs are formed through childhood dynamics and past relationships, and how they show up in adulthood through patterns like over-explaining, accepting less than we want, and avoiding conflict even when something doesn’t feel right. You’ll also be guided through a simple exercise to help identify your own core beliefs in real time.
From there, we move into the role of boundaries and how they are not about pushing people away, but about defining self-respect in action. Boundaries are one of the clearest expressions of self-love. They communicate what you will and won’t accept, and they create the structure that allows relationships to feel safe, honest, and sustainable.
At the heart of this episode is a key insight: we don’t get treated how we want. We get treated how we believe we deserve. And boundaries are how we begin to rewrite that belief through action.
This is a conversation about self-trust, emotional awareness, and what it really means to stop abandoning yourself in the name of love.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and welcome once again to everybody's favorite therapy theme podcast. I'm your host |
| 0:05.3 | Sarah and today we're talking all about YOU. Yes, we are talking all about you, all about how to love |
| 0:12.9 | ourselves because if you've been joining us for this relationship series, we are on episode number three. |
| 0:20.4 | In the last episode, we talked all about dating in the |
| 0:23.2 | digital age. And we talked all about authenticity in that episode and how important it is to |
| 0:29.3 | stay true to yourself. But this episode, we're going to talk about how to really do that, |
| 0:35.0 | how to prep yourself, how to be treating yourself in a way that teaches |
| 0:39.7 | others how to treat you. So if you are somebody who's ever said, oh man, I feel like I keep |
| 0:46.5 | ending up in these relationships where nobody treats me the way I deserve and I'm not being treated how I want to be treated. |
| 0:57.7 | Well, we're going to take a look in the mirror and not to blame anybody or to blame you or |
| 1:03.1 | blame ourselves or anything like that, but just to have agency and awareness and see is the |
| 1:08.6 | way you are treating yourself showing others a good model for how they should |
| 1:14.4 | treat you? So we're going to be talking about core beliefs. We're going to be talking about |
| 1:19.5 | boundaries with ourselves and with other people. We're going to talk about some patterns and |
| 1:24.6 | self-abandonment and, you know, really just what loving yourself actually |
| 1:29.4 | means, right? We all need a little bit of that. And I really want to move away from that, like, |
| 1:36.3 | annoying and cliche self-love talk where it's like, all you got to do is love yourself. Well, yeah, |
| 1:43.4 | okay, there's a little bit of that, but |
| 1:45.5 | I think we have to take it a little bit farther than that or like go deeper with that, right? |
| 1:52.0 | Sometimes it means things like keeping promises to yourself. And this is where I want to start |
| 1:57.6 | today because this, it's something that kind of sounds small just like |
| 2:02.9 | keeping promises to yourself really but it's so foundational to every single thing that we're |
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