Breaking Our Borders

Send us Fan Mail   Welcome back to the Breaking Our Borders podcast. I’m Dr. Michelle Border and in today’s episode I will be talking about people pleasing, perfectionism, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder. These behaviors are results of experiencing abuse and trauma. They are borders we have created in our minds of what we need to do to get people to accept, like, or love us. Let’s ge...

Send us Fan Mail   Welcome back to the Breaking Our Borders Podcast. I’m Dr. Michelle Border and in today’s episode I will discuss self-esteem, self-worth, and self-identity. Children who experience childhood trauma often struggle with having positive self-esteem and self-worth, and creating a self-identity. I will explain why that happens and what we can do to improve them in this episode. Let’s...

Send us Fan Mail   Welcome back to the Breaking Our Borders Podcast! In today’s episode I will discuss what anxiety, depression, and hypervigilance are; how they have impacted my life; how they impact children and adults who have experienced childhood trauma; how they create borders in our minds, and how we can cope with all three. So let’s get started breaking our borders together.  

Send us Fan Mail   Welcome back to Breaking Our Borders! I’m Dr. Michelle Border, and in today’s episode I will explain what abuse, neglect, and trauma are. I also will explain what experiencing these three conditions do to our mind and body, and talk about the borders that are created in our minds from these experiences. Join me now as we begin breaking more of our borders together.   

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back, everyone! In today’s episode I want to explain the emotional development of our brains during childhood. I will also explain what kind of experiences we need to have as children to be emotionally healthy, as well as what happens when we don’t have those positive experiences, and how that will build borders in our minds. Finally I will talk about how this affects us a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Breaking Our Borders Podcast! I’m Dr. Michelle Border, and in today’s episode I am going to tell you about my credentials and experiences that may enlighten you into how to improve your life. I will also explain how my experiences created borders in my mind, and what that may mean for you. Let’s get started breaking our borders together.

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Breaking Our Borders Podcast. In today’s episode I would like to tell you about my past, my traumatic experiences, and the impacts of those on my childhood and adulthood. I will explain what borders those experiences created for me in my mind. From this explanation, I am hoping that you will be able to identify some of the same experiences in your life, recogni...

Send us Fan Mail As we grow and experience many things in our lives, borders are created in our thought processes that make us think and believe in certain ways. Sometimes those thoughts can be harmful to our mental health. Dr. Michelle Border will examine the abuse, trauma, and experiences that cause the negative borders in our mind, and help you learn how to break down those borders to have bett...