Healing doesn't just change how you feel — it changes how you show up in relationships. And that shift can be deeply uncomfortable for the people who benefited from the old version of you.

In this episode, we explore what actually happens when you begin healing, setting boundaries, regulating your nervous system, and stepping out of familiar emotional roles — while others stay stuck in the same patterns.

If you've noticed tension, guilt-tripping, distance, or backlash since doing the inner work, this episode will help you understand why.

We'll break down the psychology behind it, including:

• why your healing disrupts emotional roles and power dynamics • how ego reacts when it can no longer control or rely on you • why unhealed people experience boundaries as rejection • how projection, shame, and insecurity drive resistance • why calm and regulation feel threatening to dysregulated nervous systems • why people try to pull you back into who you used to be • how to stop explaining, shrinking, or self-betraying to keep the peace • how to hold compassion without abandoning yourself

You'll learn why healing doesn't make you selfish or cold — it makes you less available for dysfunction.

This episode is for anyone who is growing, changing, and wondering why relationships suddenly feel harder. Because healing doesn't destroy relationships — it reveals which ones depended on your unhealed self.

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