Tough Love

With perfectionists and people pleasers, tough love can get a pretty bad rap.

We tend to forget about the love part and focus entirely on the toughness of it all.

In this week’s episode, we explore what tough love really means, the part that it plays in our lives and relationships, and whether it can actually be a good thing, even for the biggest people pleasers among us. πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈ

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HERE'S A SNEAK PEEK OF THE GOODNESS…

Tough love can only be tough love if it’s coming from someone who cares about you.
— Ashley
Tough love is essentially boundaries.
— Jenna

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE…

  • What tough love is β€” and isn’t

  • What it can feel like to give and receive tough love

  • Reframing tough love and whether it can be a good thing

  • Ideal ways to give and receive tough love

  • Defining your relationship with self-love

  • Why tough love is so, well, tough for us perfectionists and people pleasers


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