When You Stop Abandoning Yourself to Keep the Peace with Barb Nangle

What if keeping the peace with everyone else has been costing you peace with yourself?

In this episode of Delay the Binge™, Pam Dwyer talks with boundaries coach, speaker, author, and Fragmented to Whole podcast host Barb Nangle about the connection between healthy boundaries, self-trust, and what Barb calls internal safety.

After entering recovery at age 52, Barb began recognizing long-standing patterns of people pleasing, over-responsibility, and self-abandonment. She discovered that creating boundaries wasn’t simply about learning how to say no. It was about learning to have her own back when guilt, discomfort, or someone else’s disappointment showed up.

Barb explains why pausing became her most important recovery tool, how curiosity can interrupt self-judgment, why behavior change rarely happens in a straight line, and how boundaries can eventually become so integrated that you no longer have to constantly “set” them. You simply have them. 

Pam and Barb also explore people pleasing, nervous-system regulation, connection, self-compassion, and the enormous amount of energy we can reclaim when we stop trying to manage everyone else’s lives and begin paying attention to our own.

As Barb puts it, becoming whole means becoming grounded enough in yourself that life may rock you, but it no longer has to shatter you. 

Connect with Barb Nangle:

Website: https://higherpowercc.com
Fragmented to Whole Podcast: https://higherpowercc.com/podcast
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barb-nangle
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@higherpowercoaching

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