Social Boundaries: How to Stay Connected to Yourself Around Other People | Episode 355

About this episode

In this episode, Barb Nangle discusses the importance of maintaining social boundaries to stay connected to oneself while interacting with others.

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode 355 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m talking about social boundaries and what it means to stay connected to yourself while being connected to other people. For much of my life, social situations were exhausting because I constantly overrode my own needs, limits, and preferences in order to make other people comfortable. I thought I was being accommodating and easygoing, but what I was really doing was abandoning myself—and it eventually led to re...

People in this episode

Host: Barb Nangle

Topics covered

• social boundaries
• self-connection
• personal needs
• mental health
• relationships

Keywords

• social boundaries
• self-connection
• personal limits
• mental health
• relationships

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