Time with yourself is not only necessary, its required
Love and Abuse
Paul Colaianni
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
You give, you adapt, and you change who you are almost to your very core... to what end? When you are overly compassionate to others, you might actually be taking away from yourself. This is as harmful to your mind as a lack of sleep is to your body.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Love and Abuse, the show about navigating the difficult relationship, |
| 0:05.0 | from simple disagreements to emotionally abusive behaviors. |
| 0:08.1 | You deserve respecting kindness. |
| 0:10.5 | All the information on this show is meant for educational purposes only. |
| 0:13.9 | Always seek a professional for your mental health and well-being, and always pick your battles wisely. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm your host, Paul Koliani. |
| 0:30.5 | I want to start this episode by reminding you. |
| 0:33.2 | Actually, this may be the gist of the whole episode. I want to remind you that enforcing your personal boundaries, what you will and won't accept |
| 0:40.7 | in your life, that's how I define personal boundaries. |
| 0:44.0 | Enforcing those is self-nurturing behavior. |
| 0:50.4 | When you do something for yourself, it's self-nurturing. |
| 0:57.6 | I hear from a lot of people that tell me I don't want to hurt the other person. |
| 1:05.0 | I don't want to be selfish by doing something that I need to do for myself. |
| 1:12.6 | So I'm not sure how to go about it without feeling guilty, without hurting them. |
| 1:19.1 | And the very first thought I have when I read something like that or hear somebody say that is you need to be okay nurturing yourself because how long has it been how long has it been |
| 1:35.0 | since you've nurtured yourself without the feelings of guilt or worry or being stressed about it. Why wouldn't anyone support you |
| 1:51.3 | nurturing yourself? That's the first thought that comes to my mind. Why wouldn't anyone |
| 1:58.1 | who loves you support you nurturing yourself? |
| 2:01.6 | If my partner wanted to go to a plant sale because she loves those, if she wanted to go to a plant sale and I felt like she was abandoning me. |
| 2:15.6 | This is the old me. I'm talking about me a long time ago, but this is who I was back then. I felt like she was abandoning me. This is the old me. I'm talking about me a long time ago. |
| 2:18.9 | But this is who I was back then. |
| 2:20.6 | I felt like I was being abandoned. |
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