When you have been the strong one for most of your life, putting down the weight can feel more frightening than carrying it. Because at some point, strength stops being something you have and becomes part of who you are. So who are you when you no longer need to be Superwoman?

We are told that cutting people off and setting rigid walls will heal our childhood wounds. But what if "setting boundaries" is just a mask for our inability to look at our own part in the story? As an ex-people-pleaser, I’ve learned that distance doesn't lessen the psychological burden. Read on to discover why true boundaries are never built with anger, but with a quiet, radical peace.