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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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Know Your Wounded Boundary Hooks & Become “Slippery”
How To Be Less Vulnerable To Getting Manipulated By Boundary Wounded People
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Examples Of Healthy Boundaries In Real Life
Excerpt From The Boundaries Handbook
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The "How" Of Basic Boundaries 1.0
Communicating What's Okay & Not Okay In A Non-Violent Way
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Common Ways Boundary-Wounded People Pair Up- Part II
In Common Ways Boundary-Wounded People Pair Up- Part I, we talked about the four kinds of boundary-wounded parts- compliant, controller, nonresponsive…
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Common Ways Boundary Wounded People Pair Up- Part 1
In a former post, I reviewed How To Spot A Boundary Wounded Person. You might recognize some of these behaviors from others in your life, or you might…
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An Internal Family Systems Lens On Wounded Boundaries
A Basic Review of the IFS Model
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Four Common Ways We Hurt Ourselves & Others With Boundary Wounded "Parts"
An IFS-Informed Lens On Healing Wounded Boundaries
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The Difference Between Healthy Intimacy and Unhealthy Enmeshment
Before we talk about the specific ways boundaryless people tend to pair up, let’s make a distinction between healthy intimacy and unhealthy enmeshment.
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A Trauma-Informed Lens On The Narcissist- Codependent (Empath) Dynamic- Part 2
In Part 1 of this series of excerpts from The Boundaries Handbook, we explored the way boundary wounded folks might pair up- and how whoever has more…
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