it's

creating a safe space.

So I facilitate the sessions.

And based on the topic, I do my homework.

I'll use a TED Talk as an example.

I will listen to the TED Talk and I will then develop discussion questions.

And what I always tell the families is we're going to listen together and then we're going to come back as a full group and we're going to discuss.

And I

Do you think the reason it's so challenging for people to have boundaries in general in life is because it's so closely tied to your nervous system? Yeah.

Yeah, I think it's layered.

I think it's our childhood, how our needs were either honored or respected.

Then I think it's socialization, like how culture kind of tells us how to become, especially as women, we're supposed to be agreeable, do everything, smile while we're doing it.

And boundaries kind of have a bad rap because they're known to be rude, mean, selfish.

And if you don't identify as those things...

Why would you do that? At least that was my struggle.

But how does this sort of same framework apply to those more, I don't want to call mundane relationships with those like less emotionally charged relationships? Yeah.