Breaking Our Borders
As we grow and experience many things in our lives, borders are created in our thought processes that make us think and believe in certain ways. Sometimes those thoughts can be harmful to our mental health. Dr. Michelle Border will examine the abuse, trauma, and experiences that cause the negative borders in our mind, and help you learn how to break down those borders to have better mental health.
Breaking Our Borders
Episode 13- Healthy relationships and Identifying feelings
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Welcome back! I’m Dr. Michelle Border and in today’s episode I’m going to talk about healthy relationships and how to communicate our feelings in healthy ways. Survivors of childhood trauma often were not provided with relationship skills, did not see by example how healthy relationships work, or allowed to express their true feelings in a positive way. This can hinder developing healthy relationships in adulthood. We have borders in our minds that we are not worthy of being treated certain ways, we think we don’t have a right to express how we feel, or that we should speak up for ourselves in relationships. Some people have borders in their minds that since they weren’t given this treatment in childhood, they deserve it now and use unhealthy ways to obtain it. These borders prevent us from having healthy relationships and feeling good about ourselves. So let’s get started breaking those borders together now!