Are you overgiving in your relationships?  In this episode, I talk with Melissa Guttman, MT-BC, LCAT about setting boundaries with emotionally immature people and: 

• Why highly sensitive people often struggle with boundaries and codependency in their relationships 

• Reframing guilt as a marker of taking better care of yourself instead of thinking that you’ve done something wrong 

• Letting go of overfunctioning and over-empathizing to honor the other ways you bring value as a sensitive person

• Recognizing anger and intuition as signs it’s time to set a boundary

• The cost of enabling and rescuing the people in your life 

• Knowing when to distance yourself from the emotionally immature people in your life 

Melissa is a licensed IFS therapist in private practice based in New York City, helping highly sensitive adult children of narcissists recover from gaslighting and trust their intuition, to make decisions from a place of personal sovereignty and wisdom. Melissa also runs the Witches Protection Program, a self-defense training for highly sensitive people to learn how to protect themselves from narcissists.

Keep in touch with Melissa:
• Website: https://www.ifswitch.com 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ifs_witch
• Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ifs_witch 

Resources Mentioned:
• Melissa’s Witches Protection Program: https://www.ifswitch.com/witchesprotectionprogram 
• Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound by Bethany Webster: https://bookshop.org/a/63892/9780062884442 
• You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For by Richard Schwartz: https://bookshop.org/a/63892/9781683643623  

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