(BEST OF) The Boundary Fix for Burnout with Nedra Glover Tawwab

In a moment when everything feels urgent, this conversation with boundary expert Nedra Glover Tawwab is your reminder: you can care deeply about the world without abandoning yourself.

Because burnout isn’t always a personal failure. Sometimes it’s just a boundary that hasn’t been spoken yet.

Nedra helps us rethink boundaries—not as walls, but as instructions for how to love and be loved without disappearing. We talk about resentment, overfunctioning, people pleasing, and why all humans are gloriously, beautifully needy.

If you’re exhausted, stretched thin, or carrying too much: this one is for you.

- The five signs you might have a boundary problem

- Why we all need to stop pretending we’re “not needy” 

- How to stop arguing like a lawyer and start communicating like a kindergartener: “That hurt. I don’t like that. I need this.”

- How to know when to end an argument, exit a friendship, and respond to passive aggressiveness

About Nedra: 

Nedra Glover Tawwab is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Drama Free and Set Boundaries, Find Peace. A licensed therapist and sought-after relationship expert, she has practiced relationship therapy for more than fifteen years. Tawwab has appeared as an expert on Red Table Talk, The Breakfast Club, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning Show to name a few. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vice. Tawwab runs a popular Instagram account where she shares practices, tools, and reflections for mental health and relationships. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family.

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