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S1 EP13: When Helping Hurts
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S1 EP13: When Helping Hurts

Choosing How to Help Without Losing Yourself

This episode comes from a season of loving someone who will not accept help and feeling that familiar ache in my chest as the cliff gets closer. If you have watched a person you love dig in their heels, refuse support, and race toward consequences, this one is for you.

I talk about the helplessness, the guilt, and the debate between keeping a safe distance or diving in to help. Then I walk you through clear tools that let you love them without losing yourself.

Sometimes love is presence with boundaries. Sometimes love is a planned leap with a rope tied to something solid.

Key Takeaways:
✨ How to separate love from control and protect what’s truly yours to carry
✨ Two path playbooks — Distance or Dive — with real scripts and action items
✨ Why protecting your own oxygen is the only way to offer lasting compassion

✨ Rewrite. Reclaim. Reinvent. ✨
Because saving someone else should never mean losing yourself in the process.

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