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MOMENT | An easy way to set tricky boundaries with Melissa Urban

The Motherkind Podcast

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8837 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This Moment is with author Melissa Urban. Melissa is a seven-time New York Times best-selling author who specialises in helping people establish healthy boundaries. I recently read her book The book of boundaries: set the limits that will set you free. I loved this book so much, and hope you find this clip from our chat super supportive. Come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases: https://mailchi.mp/motherkind/motherkind-mailing-list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tell us about the threat levels, because I think you just touched on it there.

0:09.2

You know, if this doesn't change, this is what's going to happen.

0:11.6

And this is a question that you must get all the time, because I get it too,

0:14.9

which is what if someone doesn't respect my boundary?

0:18.1

So what if Carol, let's stick to poor Carol, what if Carol keeps showing

0:22.4

up, you set the boundary and she goes, yeah, yeah, of course, I'll call whatever. Next week,

0:26.8

there's a knock at the door. It's Carol wanting to come in. What would you do then? Would you

0:30.1

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1:19.9

and red. And it is kind of based upon the threat this boundary overstep presents to your

1:26.0

relationship. The green boundary is where you usually start.

1:30.5

It's like, okay, I'm just going to assume that this person didn't know I had a limit. And once I

1:34.9

express it clearly and kindly, they're going to want to meet me in this limit for the good of the

1:38.8

relationship. They care about me. They care about my needs and my feelings. So I'm going to go in

1:43.7

assuming the best and share my green. That would be, hey, Carol, please care about my needs and my feelings. So I'm going to go in assuming the best and

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