Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast, your host Dayna J. Francois sits down with none other than her besTEA and fellow emotionally intelligent bad bitch, Alexa Austin, for an episode that’s part confessional, part boundary bootcamp, and fully a love letter to no longer lighting yourself on fire to keep other people warm. In episode 13, the duo unpack codependency: how it starts in childhood, blossoms in our little lesbian situationships, and seeps into friendships disguised as “being the strong one.” From people-pleasing in your “perfect daughter” era to performing emotional labor like it’s your full-time job, Dayna and Alexa are pulling back the curtain on what it really means to put yourself first without flinching. The pair unpack exes who drained us, friends who blurred the line between trauma bond and support system, and the unlearning it takes to go from emotional landfill to emotionally unavailable (in a hot, healed kind of way). This episode is for anyone who’s ever shape-shifted to stay loved, shrunk to stay safe, or stayed when they should’ve said “that’s not my job.” So grab your espresso martini, text your ex “do not disturb forever,” and settle in because being a hot lesbian with boundaries? That’s the plot.
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