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Life presents the toughest challenges. Every day you are faced with decisions that test your ability to express who you really want to be in this world.

We're told to keep saying affirmations and keep thinking positively, but what do you do when that stuff doesn't work?

Welcome to the overwhelmed brain where you'll learn to make decisions that are right for you

so that you can create the life you want now. Hello, it's another week. Welcome to the show. My name is Paul Kolyani and I'm here to help you increase your emotional intelligence so that you can stay out of dysfunction and toxic situations and also show up as your

authentic self.

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All right, today I want to talk about personal boundaries.

I've had a couple episodes about personal boundaries before and I covered quite a bit

in how important they are in your life.

But this episode I really want

to unpack them and emphasize exactly why you want personal boundaries in your life.

In what they are, I mean, some people have written to me and said,

what are personal boundaries? And they just didn't know or they didn't know how to define them.

In this episode I hope to resolve any questions about personal boundaries and also emphasize some of the real important stuff surrounding personal boundaries.

And this is something that I've not had much of throughout my life.

So I relate to it in a way where I grew up as the

people pleaser letting people stomp all over my boundaries which really didn't

exist and also people taking advantage of me and me letting them do it because I didn't have any clear defined personal boundaries.

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