Setting Boundaries With Family Always Starts a Fight

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Dec 9, 2024 · 49m

Setting boundaries with family rarely goes quietly the first time. You say no once and the people who have had access to you for decades push back — call it selfish, call it cold, act wounded in a way that makes you wonder if you did something wrong. That resistance is not evidence you were wrong. It is what happens when an old arrangement ends. Nelanthini Rajesan is a certified transformation coach who spent years as a people pleaser before learning exactly what it takes to hold a boundary when everyone around you is applying pressure to abandon it. What she shares about where to actually…