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Self Boundaries That Transform PTSD Recovery

Host: Brad Schipke • Overcoming PTSD Podcast • Recovery Secrets Daily Coaching

In this Boundary Bootcamp session, Brad and Kayleen dive into the most overlooked part of healing after trauma: self boundaries. Before you can set limits with the people around you, you have to learn how to stop abandoning yourself in daily decisions, habits, and coping patterns. This episode shows you how to start doing exactly that in a grounded, practical way.

You’ll learn why self-love and self-worth are the real foundation of every boundary—and what to do if you don’t believe you deserve good things yet. Kayleen walks through how she went from feeling worthless and stuck in destructive habits to building simple, “binary” boundaries that shifted her confidence, energy, and relationships.

Brad and Kayleen break down how to spot areas in your life that quietly make your PTSD or trauma symptoms worse—like media, food, substances, social media, or people-pleasing—and how to pick one boundary that will create the biggest positive ripple effect. You’ll also hear how to use visualization, self-talk, and introspection to stay on track when you’re tempted to break your own rules.

By the end of this episode, you’ll have a clear first step: choose one self boundary, make it black-and-white, plan what you’ll do instead, and start proving to yourself—day by day—that you are worth protecting, respecting, and caring for.

💡 What You’ll Learn

Why self boundaries must come before setting boundaries with other people in PTSD or trauma recovery

How low self-worth and old trauma beliefs quietly sabotage your attempts to set and keep boundaries

A simple “binary” way to set boundaries so they’re clear, doable, and easy to notice when you’re crossing them

How to identify the one habit, behavior, or coping pattern that makes you feel worst about yourself and start there

How to replace destructive habits with life-enhancing options instead of leaving empty space that pulls you back into old patterns

How to use self-talk to talk yourself into healthy actions and out of self-abuse and self-sabotage

How to pause, introspect, and uncover the deeper belief or wound underneath every urge to break your boundary

How consistent self boundaries naturally increase confidence and change how others treat and respect you

Why small daily decisions around media, food, substances, or people-pleasing matter so much in long-term PTSD recovery

🧠 Key Takeaway

Every time you keep a self boundary, you’re proving to your brain that you are worth protecting—and that’s the foundation of real PTSD and trauma recovery.

🔗 Next Steps

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Topics Covered:

PTSD recovery • trauma healing • self boundaries • personal boundaries for trauma survivors • self-love and self-worth after trauma • PTSD coping tools • stopping self-sabotage • overcoming addictions after trauma • emotional regulation • nervous system regulation • people-pleasing and PTSD • setting healthy limits • Recovery Secrets Daily Coaching • boundaries in PTSD recovery • how to build self-respect after trauma