Setting Boundaries with Crazymaking Family Members: 4 Steps
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Do you come from a toxic, dysfunctional, crazymaking family and do you struggle to set healthy boundaries with them to safeguard your mental health? If so, in this episode, Lisa A. Romano dives into 4 steps you can take to begin creating healthier boundaries with toxic family members. However, be prepared; they might not like the new and more assertive you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | My name is Lisa A. Romano. |
| 0:08.0 | I am a life coach, best-selling author, YouTube vlogger, meditation teacher, an expert in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse. |
| 0:16.0 | I am a believer in the power of an organized mind. |
| 0:20.0 | My aim is to help people learn what it means to live above the veil of consciousness rather |
| 0:25.8 | than living a reactive life. |
| 0:28.3 | May your heart feel blessed, your mind feel expanded, and your spirit find hope as you |
| 0:33.5 | spend time with me here at the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | So today we're talking about how to set boundaries with people that you love and why it's so |
| 0:42.7 | difficult for some of us who have grown up with childhood trauma to set a boundary. |
| 0:47.1 | When we're talking about a boundary, we're talking about the ability to know what is right |
| 0:51.4 | for us and what is wrong for us. |
| 0:53.3 | This is screwy for those of us who have |
| 0:55.4 | grown up in a dysfunctional home. Why? Because we haven't been taught that what we think and what we |
| 1:00.9 | feel are valid. We've been conditioned throughout childhood to suppress our emotions and even to repress |
| 1:07.9 | our emotions. So repression is more a subconscious process where suppression is, |
| 1:14.0 | I feel something, I see something, I go, no, I'm not going to think about that. I'm not |
| 1:18.3 | dealing with that right now. Or my husband comes home and he smells like alcohol and he was |
| 1:25.0 | supposed to be at an AA meeting and I don't acknowledge it. I suppress the |
| 1:30.8 | fear that I feel. This is very common for those of us who grow up feeling like what we think |
| 1:36.5 | and what we feel is not important. It's even stupid. It's irrelevant. And we feel guilty for |
| 1:44.0 | noticing what we notice. If you come from a dysfunctional |
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