What are healthy boundaries in relationships? Setting boundaries with the ones you love is a necessary challenge to maintaining a relationship. In this episode of Your Life In Process, Diana Hill and boundary guru Nedra Tawwab discuss strategies on how to identify what healthy boundaries are for you and then how to practice small boundary-setting steps that make a huge impact in preserving and protecting relationships. Through the lens of psychological flexibility, boundaries provide inner peace and enhance connection in relationships.

About Nedra Tawwab

Nedra Glover Tawwab is a licensed therapist, New York Times Bestselling Author of Set Boundaries Find Peace and the Set Boundaries Workbook. Nedra is a sought-after relationship expert. She has practiced relationship therapy for 12 years and is the founder and owner of the group therapy practice, Kaleidoscope Counseling. Every day she helps people create healthy relationships by teaching them how to implement boundaries. Her philosophy is that a lack of boundaries and assertiveness underlie most relationship issues, and her gift is helping people create healthy relationships with themselves and others.

Key Takeaways

The intention of setting boundaries with people is to restore, preserve, and protect relationships.

• When we start small and straight forward with setting boundaries, we are taking a step towards peace in our lives.
• Boundaries are personal. Setting boundaries may look different depending on the context, the relationship, and the person.

Related Resources

• Download Your Daily Practice for this episode
• Find out what kind of Striver you are and get your free Skillful Striving Toolkit
• Read Set Boundaries, Find Peace and The Set Boundaries Workbook
• Listen to Diana Hill and Nedra Tawwab in their first interview on Psychologists Off the Clock podcast
• Learn More about Nedra Tawwab
• Find Nedra Tawwab on Instagram
• Visit: Lightfully Behavioral Health

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Thank you to the team Craig, Angela Stubbs, Ashley Hiatt, and Abby Diehl. Thank you to Benjamin Gould of Bell & Branch for your beautiful music.

Remember when you become psychologically flexible, you become free.

Episode Segments

• [00:00] Introduction
• [00:24] Sponsor: Lightfully Behavior Health
• [04:45] What Are Boundaries?
• [08:49] When To Soften Vs. When To Strengthen Boundaries
• [10:29] Boundaries Can Be Uncomfortable
• [15:24] Setting Boundaries In Families
• [19:49] How To Clean Up Messy Boundaries
• [21:51] Consequences of Unhealthy Boundaries
• [23:42] Nedra’s Personal Experience With Boundaries
• [27:11] Boundaries And Parenting
• [32:10] Boundaries Around Politics And Families
• [38:27] The Thing That Trips People Up The Most With Boundaries
• [45:13] Setting Boundaries With Expectations
• [47:19] Boundaries With Social Media And Technology
• [53:35] Your Daily Practice
• [55:41] Connect With The Podcast