002 | Beyond People-Pleasing: Boundaries, Love, & the Truth You Deserve

This show is a full-body exhale for the compassionate soul who’s tired of over-functioning, people-pleasing, and being the emotional glue in relationships and systems that don’t offer mutual care – and may even be causing harm. Your host, therapist and author Molly Davis Moon, explores how distorted definitions of "good" keep compassionate people stuck in roles that slowly erode their well-being.

 

It's time to reframe love, truth, and boundaries… and stop co-signing the dysfunction.

 

This week’s mic drop moment: “Being nice” isn’t the same as being loving! And love tells the truth.

 

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Episode timestamps:

 

00:39 – Molly explores how our boundaries get compromised in dysfunctional relationships. How do compassionate people get pulled into supporting the very dysfunction they’re trying to survive?

 

02:05 – Using an example of a dysfunctional family system, Molly walks you through a powerful reframe of what it really means to be “good,” and how distorted ideas of goodness keep compassionate folks locked in patterns of silence, self-sacrifice, and burnout.

07:24 – Reframing “good” and “bad.” And how “being nice” isn’t the same as being loving.

 

11:16 – The micro is the macro: Tune in to hear why our personal healing is part of a larger collective awakening.

12:17 – We’re waking up: Molly explains how rewriting the rules frees us from guilt and fuels real change. Love stands strong; it doesn’t shrink to keep the peace.

15:35 – The real change begins in the knowing, and personal dynamics ripple outward to shape culture and collective behavior.

 

16:21 – Whether you’re healing from family dysfunction, questioning what you've been taught about kindness, or simply exhausted from holding it all together, remember: You’re allowed to stop pretending. You’re allowed to tell the truth. You’re allowed to stop co-signing what harms you. And you don’t have to do it alone.

 

17:01 – The $19 Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course is here to help.

 

17:57 – Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!