Creating boundaries with our family and turning them over to our HP

Creating boundaries with our family and turning them over to our HP

Episode Overview

• Insights into setting boundaries with family members and the impact of dysfunctional family dynamics
• Personal reflections on navigating codependency within family relationships
• Challenges and growth in the journey towards recovery and healing
• Strategies for recognizing and addressing dysfunctional patterns within family dynamics
• Valuable lessons on prioritizing self-care and establishing healthy boundaries

“Writing myself notes to establish boundaries helps me. And recently my brother called and said, see, I'm moving back to Michigan eventually. And he said, hey, why don't I come to California? I've got friends in Northern California. Why don't we spend some time together, go on a vacation? And my note with my family members is two days max, two days maximum. I can spend two days physically with my family and I have to go. And so my brother wanted to do this thing and go to San Francisco and stay with people I don't know. And I thought, well, you know, if I don't do it then he'll be alone and you know like I can i he deserves a vacation and i just had to stop myself and said do you have any idea how out of your mind you'd be spending more time than that with your brother and it would be a disservice to him a disservice to me and uh and so what i'm trying to say is that I wrote him an email and I clearly stated, I'm not going to San Francisco. I don't have the time. If you'd like to come here, I can give you three days. Like arrive on a Monday, we hang out all day Tuesday, and Wednesday I'm putting you on a plane.”