The Body Is A Trailhead by Lissa Rankin, MD

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Reclaiming Healthy Shame & Guilt So You Can Protect The Boundaries Of Others
How Good Boundaries Helps Us Contain Our Parts That Might Harm Others
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The Importance Of Boundary-Protecting Anger
Why Anger Phobia & Spiritual Bypassing Can Lead To Collapsed Boundaries
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Setting Boundaries With Yourself
There Are No Bad Parts, But Parts Can Do Bad Things! Here's How To Contain Our Parts That Might Harm Ourselves Or Harm Others.
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Putting IFS-Informed Boundaries 2.0 Into Place, Part 2
More Examples of applied Boundaries 2.0, including how to keep your boundaries with yourself
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When Boundary Setting Goes Wrong
How Trauma Survivors Can Confuse Boundaries & Coercion/ Domination
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Putting IFS-Informed Boundaries 2.0 Into Action, Part 1
Clarifying "fish or cut bait" commitment dynamics and "gray zone" relationship ambiguity
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IFS-Informed Boundaries 2.0
A More Relational Way To Negotiate Boundaries Without Being Controlling
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Doing The "YOU-Turn"
Excerpt from RELATIONSICK (To Be Published Spring 2026)
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The Promise of Boundaries 1.0
In prior posts, we spelled out the “how” of Boundaries 1.0. While Boundaries 1.0 lacks the fully shared power of the more relational Boundaries 2.0 that…
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Do You Feel Like You Wind Up Parenting Your Partner, Who Then Resents Being Infantalized?
How "The Parent Trap" Creates The Opposite Of Healthy Intimacy
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Set Boundaries- But Don’t Use Your "Boundaries" To Control Someone Else
Excerpt from THE BOUNDARIES HANDBOOK
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Don't Do The "Doormat-To-Diva" Switch
How To Empathize With How Your Boundaries Impact Others, Without Collapsing the Boundaries
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