set boundaries find peace by nedra glover tawwab

Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vice, and has appeared on numerous podcasts, including The School of Greatness, We Can Do Hard Things, and Ten Percent Happier.

Nedra has appeared as an expert on Red Table Talk, The Breakfast Club, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning Show to name a few. She has additional certifications in working with families and couples and in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, plus advanced training for counseling adults who've experienced childhood emotional neglect. Nedra earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Her philosophy is that a lack of boundaries and assertiveness underlie most relationship issues, and her gift is helping people create healthy relationships with themselves and others. Every day she helps people create healthy relationships by teaching them how to implement boundaries. She has practiced relationship therapy for 15 years and is the founder and owner of the group therapy practice, Kaleidoscope Counseling. Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW, is the author of bestsellers Drama Free and Set Boundaries, Find Peace, licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert. Helping people become themselves, unpack, and reclaim their voice is my calling.

There is something transformative about saying things aloud. There is something transformative about having someone see and hear you. It sounds cliche, but something clicked and let me know that being a therapist is who I was becoming all along. My first client sealed my fate as a therapist. My final internship was at a runaway shelter, where I counseled teens and their families. After my first internship at a community grant agency, I knew macro-level social work was not for me. Entering grad school, I wanted to practice macro-level social work, such as lobbying or policy reform. When I considered grad school, I went back to studying social work.

Due to my limited scope of what social workers did in my mind, mainly removing children from their homes, I changed my major to Africana Studies and Sociology. When I started college, I wanted to be a social worker. Self-help books were companions as I sought to discover more about myself and how people became who they are. People (strangers and friends) opened up to me, and I asked questions that made people think more in-depth. I saw people acting out trauma in destructive ways, and I wanted to know how to be healthy despite it. I get to decide what role trauma plays in my life. I believe trauma is a part of many of our stories. I thought of trauma as a part of my story. My ACE (adverse childhood experiences) score is a 7 out of 10, but I never thought of trauma as the end of my story. My life experiences groomed me to become a therapist.

Set boundaries find peace by nedra glover tawwab