Setting Boundaries! with Chief Master Greg Moody, Senior Master Laura Sanborn, and Mr. Dwayne Flees

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Setting Boundaries! with Chief Master Greg Moody, Senior Master Laura Sanborn, and Mr. Dwayne Flees

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Most parents have heard the advice for years: "Just set boundaries." For parents of teenagers, young adults, and grown children, that advice rarely works. There is a reason. The boundary most parents are setting is not actually a boundary. In this episode, Chief Master Greg Moody, Ph.D., founder of KarateBuilt Martial Arts and a licensed counselor at Integrated Mental Health Associates, joins Senior Master Laura Sanborn and Mr. Dwayne Flees to walk through what a boundary actually is, when it works, and why most parents have been setting demands disguised as boundaries for years. The conversation traces the lifecycle of parental authority across five stages and exposes the moment most parents get stuck: when the toolkit that worked at age six stops working at age twenty-six. A real boundary defines the parent's own availability, not the kid's required behavior. Most parents collapse not at setting the boundary, but at holding it, and the deepest challenge is tolerating not the consequence itself but the imagined consequence. Topics covered include: • Why "setting boundaries" usually fails for parents of adult children • The five stages of parental authority and how a parent's role changes at each one • The difference between a rule and a boundary • The setting, holding, tolerating model for every real boundary • Why tolerating the imagined consequence is harder than tolerating the actual one • The Al-Anon principle: you cannot save them, but you can stay available • What identical-twin studies reveal about how much of personality parents actually shape • Why two parents must align before any boundary will hold • Why a boundary is the most respectful posture a parent can take with an adult child This episode is for parents of teenagers, young adults, and grown children who feel like nothing has worked. It is also for therapists, coaches, and martial arts school owners working with families stuck in the same patterns. For more visit KarateBuilt.com and DrGregMoody.com

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