Live Your Life for You (Not Your Mom) with Emily Jacobs

In this episode, we talk about:

• How to live your life for you!

• Tools for setting healthy boundaries, breaking the cycle, and banishing guilt.

• Taking care of yourself to take better care of others.

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Show Notes:

Are you a recovering people pleaser? It’s about time you started putting yourself first! Our guest this week is Dr. Emily Jacobs, wife, mother of 2 daughters, author, speaker, board certified doctorate prepared integrative nurse wellness coach and thought leader from Michigan! With over 20 years of healthcare in nursing and corporate leadership experience, Emily now helps guide others through balance, boundaries, and recognizing toxicity. Today, you’ll learn how to ditch those people pleaser tendencies by setting healthy boundaries, breaking the cycle, and banishing feelings of guilt. Most of all, she’ll show you how to take back control of your choices so you can find your happiness. Stop living for someone else and start living your life for YOU!

00:00 Say hello to Dr. Emily Jacobs, author, speaker, nurse wellness coach, and mother of 2 daughters and learn how to live your life for you!

02:30 How did you get to where you are now?

05:40 What brought you to write your book?

08:15 When did you realize you weren’t living your life for you?

12:55 How do people project onto others?

15:15 The difference between people pleasing and kindness.

17:20 How can you take care of yourself while taking care of your family?

20:35 Where is the happy medium?

22:25 How did you face those hardships?

24:45 Why do you hate the word ‘busy’?

27:50 How do you set boundaries?

31:50 What would you say to someone who’s uncomfortable with disappointing people?

34:20 How to set healthy mother-daughter boundaries.

39:10 How do you break the cycle?

41:45 What can we learn from our children?

43:45 How do you banish mom guilt?

46:30 How can you shift the perspective away from guilt?