Today, we’re talking about one of the most important subjects regarding healthy relationships: boundaries.  
 
Nowadays there is frequent talk about boundaries in our culture and oftentimes people misunderstand the word, thinking a boundary is something you're going to do or say and that you're going to draw a line in the sand. But today I want to talk to you about something that is more common with boundaries that people or you might not know about. Let me explain with an example.  
 
Say I have a couple – let’s just say a man and a woman. The man is completely at peace and all of a sudden the woman gets angry with him, and then he also immediately starts getting angry. So, what is happening in that dynamic is that her anger transferred over to him… and that happened because he did not have an emotional boundary, meaning that because his partner got angry then he reacted or responded by becoming angry as well – so there was a transfer of emotion. Because he didn't have a good emotional bo...

Today, I’m going to be talking about a topic that’s received a lot of talk in our society and therapy: self-esteem. Now, there’s a lot of interest right now in trying to understand what self-esteem means. I know that I have many clients who are parents that think that the way to give their children self-esteem is by praising them… but that often comes from a lack of clarity of what they’re really producing in their children. Most likely, what parents want for their children is to have self-worth.  
 
So, really, what we’re going to talk about is self-worth, and the difference between self-esteem and self-worth.  
 
Self-esteem is something that you give to somebody to elevate his or her self, whereas self-worth is something that is inherently present, already in you. Any of us – or any of you who are parents – can see within your child that there’s a spirit and a soul. But even if you’re not parents, maybe if you’ve had an animal, you’ve also seen within that animal that there’s a spirit a...