How to set boundaries and find peace (w/ Nedra Glover Tawwab) | How to Be a Better Human

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🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Telling other people what you want – or need – can be a really difficult thing to do! Nedra Glover Tawwab is a therapist and New York Times bestselling author who helps people create healthy boundaries with themselves and others, both at work and in personal relationships. In this episode, she talks about why identifying your needs is so important, clarifies what healthy boundaries can look like and shares empowering tools so you can advocate for yourself – and get the treatment you deserve.

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0:55.9	Hey, TED Talks Daily listeners, I'm Elise Hugh. Today we have an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, handpicked by us for you. It's so important and so hard to identify what you want and need in your life. It's maybe harder still to communicate those wants and needs with others. So this week we're sharing an episode of how to be a better human
1:00.7	featuring therapist and author Nedra Glover to Wobb. Nedra speaks with host Chris Duffy about what
1:07.5	healthy boundaries can actually look like, and why learning how to identify
1:12.0	your needs and advocate for them is the first step in a healthier relationship with yourself
1:17.5	and those around you. If you want to hear more insights like this, listen to how to be a better
1:22.6	human wherever you get your podcasts and learn about the TED Audio Collective at audiocollective.tad.com.
1:34.7	You're listening to How to Be a Better Human. I'm your host, Chris Duffy.
1:39.1	Here's an embarrassing fact about me, and this feels like the perfect time to share it.
1:42.9	I am very, very bad at setting
1:45.8	boundaries. If you ask me to make time for a five-minute phone call and then you speak for
1:50.5	two hours, I will probably not say anything to object, even if I have somewhere else to be.
1:55.2	If you tell me that the work that I'm doing for you for free is not good enough, I will
1:58.8	probably redo it all.
2:00.9	If you demand that I move out of my home and let you move in, I can't say that I will
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