Podcast

#96: Overcoming People-Pleasing and Creating Healthy Boundaries with Amy E. Smith

In this episode I’m talking to the lovely Amy E. Smith about creating healthy boundaries, people-pleasing and how both of these things start with our own sense of worthiness.

Amy is a certified confidence coach, masterful speaker, and personal empowerment expert. Founder of TheJoyJunkie.com, Amy uses her roles as coach, writer, podcaster, and speaker to move individuals to a place of radical personal empowerment and self-love. With acute focus on helping people “find their voice”, she is highly sought after for her uncommon style of irreverence, wisdom, and humor and has been a featured expert on Fox 5 San Diego and YourTango.com.

Episode: Overcoming People-Pleasing and Creating Healthy Boundaries with Amy E. Smith

Topics we cover include:

  • Some of the most common misconceptions around what boundaries are (and the truth behind them)
  • Amy’s 3-step system for establishing clear boundaries
  • A useful visualisation for unhooking from what other people think
  • A powerful question we can ask ourselves whenever we’re struggling to express our boundaries
  • How we can bring the unconscious beliefs that stop us communicating boundaries to light (including beliefs around worthiness and being enough)

…and much more!

Please note: this episode contains swear words/cursing and isn’t suitable for younger listeners.

Share the Wisdom

“You can truly be in opposition with somebody and speak up for yourself, and do it with kindness.”
 
“In order to change any belief, the first step is always to question it.”
 
“We start to feel enough when we separate out our human experience from our sense of worthiness.”
 
“When it comes to boundaries, you are responsible for your intention, not your reception.”
 

Useful Links

Rising Strong by Brené Brown
The Joy Junkie Show
Amy’s free workbook: How to Stand Up for Yourself Without Being a D***

Say Hello

Amy
Instagram: @thejoyjunkie
Facebook: facebook.com/thejoyjunkie
Website: thejoyjunkie.com

Hannah
Twitter: @hannahbraime
Facebook: facebook.com/becomingwhoyouare
Website: becomingwhoyouare.net

 

Intro and outro: Stephanie Murphy
Image: Brooke Cagle via Unsplash