50. Your Urgency is not my Emergency: Holding Boundaries

Episode 50Welcome to the Healing Pod! Today we talk about that impact when someone else is trying to make their panic and stress into something that you have to solve OR ELSE. Not my monkeys, not my circus. I’m more than happy to attend but I cannot take over in order to let you avoid your own anxious feelings.As a therapist, as a friend, as a family member or spouse or child or any relationship, I completely care about you as a human being that is a rough spot, and I can stay grounded in my own limitations and abilities and my own understanding of reality for how I need to respond. It’s a lot to hold the focus and the field in mind at the same time; to separate what is mine and what is yours.  Doing so will let me know what needs to be addressed, what is safe or unsafe, and what my next step should be to remain.If you want to give us something to talk about, or join in a podcast episode, feel free to post on any of our social media or submit an anonymous story here: https://forms.gle/77KgEmvVpLYBMAHt6As always, thank you to the wonderful Dr. Miki Anderson for our intro and outtro music. She can be found under Pax Minerva on Apple Music and is all around a wonderful human being. And thank you to Dr. Keith Christie of Journey Together and Mia Karpack for helping us get our socials up and going! https://journeytogetherpc.com/ Stay tuned for episodes featuring some of his top notch clinicians!Come join us and chat, complain, or send in what mental health you would like to hear us ramble about! Find us on Facebook, TikTok, and instagram at The Healing Pod We are online at https://www.PeasInTheHealingPod.com  You can email us any questions, suggestions, comments, or memes at [email protected]  If you want to hunt down the bits and bobbles that have been cut out of our episode, join us for another live recording, or just to buy us a cup of coffee, come join us at https://www.patreon.com/TheHealingPod