Meryem Erkan Podcast: Relationships, Self-Worth and Boundaries

You take care of everything and everyone. And somewhere along the way you stopped feeling yourself.

This podcast is about you: your relationship, the challenges life puts in front of you and your way back to yourself. Meryem Erkan talks about love and partnership, self-worth and confidence, setting boundaries without guilt, and how to grow without losing yourself. Honest, warm and without clichés.

Meryem is an individual and couples counsellor, researcher and former lecturer at the University of Cologne. She works with women one to one and with couples together. She combines psychology and research with what she sees in her counselling sessions every week. Her focus is patterns: why we keep sliding into the same arguments, the same roles and the same feelings, and how that can change.

Topics include:
• why couples keep having the same fight
• how to say no without explaining yourself
• what self-worth really is and why you make yourself smaller
• how triggers and old patterns shape your relationship
• how to grow, even when the people around you don't

Every episode leaves you with one thought you can try the same day.

Articles in English: www.meryem-erkan.com/en
The Thursday Letter, free every week: www.meryem-erkan.com/en/thursday-letter
Instagram: @meryem.erkan.official

Meryem Erkan Podcast: Relationships, Self-Worth and Boundaries

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