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Learn helpful tips for setting boundaries with a toxic parent, how to deal with a parent with borderline personality disorder, and how to set boundaries with a narcissistic parent.

Parental Manipulation: Let's Talk About It. (You’re Not Crazy Podcast: Episode Seven)
5 Things You Need to Hear if You’re the Cycle Breaker in Your Family
Emotionally Immature Parents, Cycle Breakers, Dysfunctional Families Torie Wiksell | Therapist, Coach, & Host of You're Not Crazy Emotionally Immature Parents, Cycle Breakers, Dysfunctional Families Torie Wiksell | Therapist, Coach, & Host of You're Not Crazy

5 Things You Need to Hear if You’re the Cycle Breaker in Your Family

Breaking free from generational patterns of trauma and dysfunction and forging a new path can be both liberating and exhausting. While you’re building a much happier and healthier life for yourself, being the cycle breaker in your family can feel really isolating at times.

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Thinking About Setting Boundaries with a Toxic Parent? You Need to Start Prioritizing Your Own Wants and Needs.
Emotionally Immature Parents Torie Wiksell | Therapist, Coach, & Host of You're Not Crazy Emotionally Immature Parents Torie Wiksell | Therapist, Coach, & Host of You're Not Crazy

Thinking About Setting Boundaries with a Toxic Parent? You Need to Start Prioritizing Your Own Wants and Needs.

Do you often find yourself caught in a cycle of making decisions that are almost entirely based on fears about how another person might respond to what you actually want to do or guilt about putting your own needs ahead of someone else’s desires? If so, you're not alone.

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