Allyson Dinneen joins me to discuss embracing vulnerability, and boundaries and making space for even our most uncomfortable emotions. Allyson shares how to transform childhood patterns of fixing people’s problems and making people happy to instead accompany people with compassion on their emotional journey.
Allyson Dinneen is a marriage and family therapist and mental health counselor who started the Notes From Your Therapist Instagram project, which currently has almost 400K followers. Allyson’s notes and insights on emotions, relationships, and life have been featured in Huffington Post, Shape, Cosmopolitan, and more. She lives in the Berkshires, Massachusetts and works in private practice.
Highlights: The purpose of emotions as signals Making space for uncomfortable feelings It is OK if people are upset with you because you set a boundary Transforming from a fixer of people’s emotions to one who can hold space Grief and its impact as a therapist The American Co-dependency of Parenting
Resources Allison's book Notes from Your Therapist is available here
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