The Balancing Act
Creating Healthy Dependency and Connection without Losing Yourself
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The Balancing Act
Narrated by:
Nedra Glover Tawwab
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Narrated by:
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Nedra Glover Tawwab
About this listen
I need some space.
Why are you so distant?
You want more than I can give.
Every relationship in our lives - from love and close friendship to extended family and our wider social circle - is a balancing act. If we give too much, we begin to lose ourselves. If we protect ourselves too much, we lose the closeness we all need. Getting the balance right is how we find more connection, authenticity, and joy.
The Balancing Act is a roadmap for finding that balance. With her signature blend of clarity and compassion, therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab sheds light on healthy dependency, and how to achieve it. Along the way, she unpacks buzzwords and trending topics including co-dependency, attachment styles, inner family systems and more - offering practical advice for recognising our needs, navigating conflict, and finding more harmony with the important people in our lives.
Whether you're yearning for more trust with a spouse or partner, more clarity with a best friend or sibling, or more agency in how you show up in the world, these insights will help you re-evaluate, reset and relate better.©2026 Nedra Glover Tawwab
Critic reviews
Healthy relationships require us to lean on others-but not so much that we lose ourselves. In this clear and compassionate book, Nedra Tawwab offers strategies for finding the right balance.
In The Balancing Act, Nedra Glover Tawwab offers the wisdom so many of us crave: how to stay connected to others without losing ourselves. With compassion and clarity, she shows us that boundaries aren't walls but pathways to deeper, healthier relationships.
Nedra Tawwab brings both insight and heart to her work, and this book is no exception. Whether your goal is to set healthier boundaries, understand your partner more deeply, or decipher the recurring patterns in your relationships, this book will light the way forward.
A clear, highly readable guide to creating flexible and honest connections to sustain our health and energy. This is one of the best resources I have ever read that describes the balance we are trying to reach in all our relationships. A supremely useful and heartening book for all of us who need to navigate the demands of others while still holding on to what we need for ourselves.
The Balancing Act is clear-eyed and thoughtful, replacing the misunderstandings around codependency with empowering insights on human connection. A valuable resource for anyone seeking to cultivate healthy relationships.
She explores how we relate to others/ family, friends, partners, and community, through the lens of healthy vs. unhealthy dependency. As in her previous books, what stands out is her clarity and the abundance of real-life examples that make her concepts easy to understand and apply. Her work is consistently rooted in experience and psychological insight, which makes it both trustworthy and actionable.
That said, some ideas may feel familiar if you’ve read her earlier books, which is why this wasn’t a full 5-star read for me. Still, her work is the kind you revisit over time, because different lessons resonate depending on where you are in life.
If you’re looking to build healthier relationships and deepen your self-awareness, this is absolutely worth reading. I’ll continue to pick up anything Nedra writes. her voice remains one I trust and return to often.
PS. Listened to this one on audible, it’s awesome listening to her !
Loved it!
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