# The Inner Safety Skill Building Method: How to Build Boundaries That Actually Hold | Episode 341

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Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m sharing the origin story of my Inner Safety Skill Building Method and why most boundary work fails without internal containment. I didn’t learn boundaries from books. I learned them as a byproduct of recovery. And what I eventually discovered is this: external boundaries only hold when internal boundaries exist first. If you’ve ever thought, “I know how to say no, but I still feel awful afterward,” this episode ex...

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