About this episode

In this episode, Emmalee and Jen discuss boundaries with emotionally immature people, featuring insights from guest Nedra Glover Tawwab.

On this rewind episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen welcome Nedra Glover Tawwab back to the podcast! Nedra is a licensed therapist, a New York Times Bestselling author, and an expert on relationships and boundaries. If you haven’t followed her on Instagram yet, go do it now! They start the episode off by talking about Nedra's book, Consider This . Then, Nedra answers your questions about emotionally immature people and boundaries. She covers topics like navigating the emotionally immature parent/child relationship as an adult, how to know if you're the emotionally immature one, setting boundaries with people who say "it's not that deep," appeasing to avoid conflict, and so much more! Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! ⁠ Get Matched With One of Our Therapists ⁠ at The Therapy Group! ⁠ShrinkChicks on Instagram⁠ Our ⁠Know Yourself Grow Yourself Journal⁠ !! Check out ShrinkChicks on YouTube by subscribing here! ⁠https://youtube.com/channel/UCrxuhDqoL4ML3UE8b2J2BBg⁠ A special thank you to this week's sponsors for supporting ShrinkChicks! We have these exclusive offers for our listeners: Skims: Shop SKIMS Cotton and all of our favorite pieces, at SKIMS.com . After you…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jennifer Chaiken, Emmalee Bierly

Guest: Nedra Glover Tawwab

Topics covered

• boundaries
• emotionally immature people
• relationships
• parent/child dynamics
• conflict avoidance
• self-awareness

Keywords

• boundaries
• emotionally immature
• relationships
• self-improvement
• therapy
• conflict resolution
• parenting

Sponsors

Skims, OneSkin, Nine to Kind

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Therapy Group, ShrinkChicks

Books & works: Consider This

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