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Why healthy boundary-setting can feel like betraying who you used to be

I was always the peacemaker in my family and after going to therapy I have started setting boundaries and now everyone is angry with me and I feel like I am losing myself trying to find myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Growing into wholeness requires dismantling the people-pleasing patterns that once felt like love, leaving you temporarily belonging nowhere.

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