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“It has been very challenging to find words for boundaries, and to even feel like it’s okay to have boundaries, in a family where you’re supposed to be doing everything communally. Culture is such an important aspect of boundaries, and it often gets missed.” – Silvy Khoucasian
Intro
Today, I’m chatting with my friend and relationship expert Silvy Khoucasian. We chat about holding firm boundaries to create nourishing, supportive relationships as you go through life– That includes understanding attachment theory, making your own choices about what aging successfully means to you, and setting compassionate boundaries with family even when it conflicts with their cultural expectations.
Highlights:
- 02:45 Silvy’s origin story: Moving to a new country at 4 years old
- 05:00 Negotiating boundaries while straddling cross-cultural identities
- 11:00 How the culture that you’re born into impacts your attachment style
- 14:00 Attachment theory 101
- 21:27 Navigating life transitions
- 24:30 Aging successfully and individually without judgement
- 29:50 Silvy’s most challenging boundary struggle
Connect with Silvy Khoucasian:
Silvy Khoucasian is a Relationship Coach and a Writer. Silvy uniquely fuses her thorough knowledge of attachment theory, boundaries, and creativity in her coaching and writing. She has facilitated one on one, couples, and group coaching sessions for the last 10 years. Her heart mission is to support others in being deeply and soulfully self-connected and to use their self-awareness to create fulfilling and reciprocal relationships.
Silvy guides others to get to know themselves in a collaborative and empowering way and teaches people ways how to strengthen their communication skills, their capacity to be vulnerable, and their ability to create healthy and compassionate boundaries. She has been deeply invested in her own personal healing journey over the last decade and highly values being an eternal student. Silvy has been featured in various publications such as Women’s Health, Buzzfeed, Vogue, Playboy, Allure, and Cosmopolitan magazine.
Silvy eagerly looks forward to contributing to the global conversation on intimate relationships for many years to come.
You can find Silvy’s courses, including her collaboration with Mark Groves Attachment 101, on her website at https://silvykhoucasian.com/courses/. Plus, follow her on Instagram @silvykhoucasian!
Here are some ways we can connect and grow together:
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