TRIGGERED! When people cross or disrespect your boundaries
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Boundaries! A perpetually hot issue in the spiritual and healing worlds. Boundaries are something we must all continually work on while we're incarnated in human bodies. It's so important to have clear and healthy boundaries to delineate where you end and where someone else begins. This can help you stay true to your core needs and desires instead of losing your sense of self in relationships or in other people.
In this episode, I respond to a listener email about one of her triggers - when people try to tell her what to do and when people cross her boundaries.
Join me for this discussion as we delve into the "freeze" response that can habitually get triggered when others disrespect or test your boundaries, especially if you grew up with poor boundaries or parents/caregivers who were unable to model healthy boundary-setting.
I also talk about "sacred anger" and how reawakening this energy within you can lead to powerful healing and help you stand your ground - no matter where you are, who you're with, or what's being asked of you.
To share your response to this episode or one of your own triggers for a future episode, please email me@josephinehardman.com
To explore the possibility of working together 1-on-1, please visit www.josephinehardman.com
Thank you for being here!
Music & editing by G. Demers
Inner Work 2021 All Rights Reserved
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your host, Josephine Hartman. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher, |
| 0:13.5 | driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within. |
| 0:19.7 | To explore my work or connect with me, you can visit josephinehardman.com. |
| 0:24.9 | If you feel called to support the podcast, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:30.8 | I so appreciate your presence here, and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while. Now, on to the episode. |
| 0:45.0 | Boundaries seem to be a very common hot issue, something that we are continuously working on |
| 0:51.8 | while we inhabit these human bodies, how to have better, |
| 0:56.0 | healthier, clearer boundaries. And that's the thing. Being in a human body actually requires |
| 1:02.4 | you to have certain boundaries of where you end and someone else begins. Sometimes these boundaries |
| 1:09.0 | are not clearly established in childhood or not established in a healthy way if we have parents who have poor boundaries themselves, or maybe if we're carrying a much older ancestral or family pattern of not having strong boundaries and a clearly defined sense of self. |
| 1:29.3 | Sometimes when I work with my clients, we come to a point of realization that one of their primary challenges in this lifetime at a sole level is to delineate those clear boundaries for themselves and start to learn how not to lose themselves |
| 1:46.0 | in relationships or in other people. So not to merge completely with another person. Because when we |
| 1:54.3 | do do that, when we merge completely with another, then we no longer have a clear outline, a clear definition of ourselves, |
| 2:03.6 | who we are, what we stand for, and what really matters to us. |
| 2:08.6 | It's very difficult to understand or know any of this when you are emmeshed totally with someone else |
| 2:15.6 | because then their ideas, their desires, their beliefs, |
| 2:19.9 | how they view the world, even their feelings. You can absorb all of that and allow it to |
| 2:25.2 | influence your own feelings and reactions and your understanding of the world. This is especially |
| 2:32.3 | true if you are an empath or highly sensitive person, because in |
| 2:37.0 | those cases, it's just a natural thing for you to do, to take on other people's feelings, to sense |
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