EP134 Why It’s Hard to Let Them In: Early Family Boundary Violations

Welcome to Episode 134 where we explore why our early experiences with boundary violations can imprint us to not let people in later. 

In this episode we talk about an important aspect of the ability to be vulnerable, and that is all about our first experiences. The boundary issues that happened meant that our sense of self was threatened, our sense of emotional safety and trust and our ability to have a close, connected adult relationship…not to mention being healthier parents ourselves.

 Key Elements:

• Identify early boundary blurs, including the physical, emotional and psychological ones and what they do.
• Explore the concepts and impacts of emotional abuse and emotional incest.
• Describe how lack of emotional safety early on sets us up to fear true closeness in our adult relationships.

We need to feel trust

to be vulnerable

and we need to be

vulnerable in order

to trust."

- Brené Brown

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