By Hanada Kardassopoulos, RP, MACP, M.Ed. Registered Psychotherapist | Founder, Live Your Life Therapy Toronto and Virtual | Ontario-Wide Understanding Is the Beginning. It Is Not the Destination. If you have read through this series, you now understand more about boundaries than most people ever will. You understand that boundaries are an internal process, not a set of rules imposed on others. You understand that the guilt and shame that collapse a boundary attempt are le

By Hanada Kardassopoulos, RP, MACP, M.Ed. Registered Psychotherapist | Founder, Live Your Life Therapy Toronto and Virtual | Ontario-Wide Two Words. Three Very Different Experiences. Most people use shame and guilt as though they mean the same thing. In clinical practice, the distinction between them is one of the most important a person can learn, not only because they feel different but because they function differently, develop differently, and require different respons

By Hanada Kardassopoulos, MACP, M.Ed. Registered Psychotherapist | Founder, Live Your Life Therapy Toronto and Virtual | Ontario-Wide The Guilt Arrives Before You Have Finished the Sentence. You tried to say no. Maybe you did say it. For a moment, something in you felt clear and right and true. Then the guilt arrived. Not slowly. All at once, and with a force that felt entirely disproportionate to what had just happened. Within seconds you were questioning yourself, replay

By Hanada Kardassopoulos, RP, MACP, M.Ed. Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO #008493) | Founder, Live Your Life Therapy | Toronto and Virtual | Ontario-Wide You Already Know You Should Have Better Boundaries. You have probably read about them. Thought about them. Told yourself more than once that something needs to change. You understand, at least intellectually, that saying yes when you mean no is costing you something. That overextending yourself is not sustainable. That