What If Protecting Yourself Is the Honest Thing to Do?

You're Not Crazy: A Podcast for Cycle Breakers with Toxic Parents

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Cycle breakers are often raised to believe that honesty = full disclosure and transparency… even when the other person has a history of weaponizing that honesty against them.

In this episode of You’re Not Crazy, we’re digging into the messy middle between brutal honesty and self-abandonment—especially when it comes to dealing with parents who have borderline personality disorder (BPD) or narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).

So many of us value being open and real because we didn’t get that growing up. But when it comes to setting boundaries with toxic parents, that same desire to be transparent can backfire—leaving us feeling overexposed, manipulated, and unsafe.

In this episode, I’m sharing:

The difference between honesty and over-disclosure
How I decide what to share (and not share) on this podcast and in my own life
Why you don’t owe anyone—not even your parent—access to your most vulnerable truths
And the underrated boundary no one talks about: walking away when you're being mistreated

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Chapters

1. Welcome and Personal Update (00:00:00)

2. The Honesty Dilemma for Cycle Breakers (00:02:22)

3. Reframing Honesty: Finding the Gray Area (00:04:40)

4. Setting Boundaries Around Your Information (00:07:20)

5. You Can Walk Away from Mistreatment (00:10:21)

6. Episode Wrap and Free Course Promotion (00:14:02)

28 episodes

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