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Setting Healthy Boundaries

Boundaries are so important I want to share with you some things to consider when deciding how to set boundaries. that has worked for me in the past.

I've been known to successfully set a few boundaries with work and my personal life. It’s important to do it in a way that is respectful and allows for communication. Let me help you.

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3 Tips for a Better Relationship with Yourself

If we have no boundaries, it’s like the wild west up in our lives. It isn’t as cool as it sounds, trust me!

It’s not like Tombstone where the lawless people coming into our lives are taken care of by a group of attractive men with good hearts, quick hands, and good aim. In real life, we have to be our own saviors. 

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Deck the Halls With Boundaries!

I guess your holidays were much calmer than the ones I had growing up!

You had to know where you could or couldn’t sit (the kid table or the grown-up table).

When crazy cousin Cheryl starts dancing with music, you needed to decide if you gotta get out of there quick or if you put up with it because you feel like you can’t leave?

How do you decide your boundaries?

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What is love?

Merriam Webster has many definitions for this popular “L” word. The one that is most closely associated with the majority of the “acceptable societal view” is the definition of love as a strong affection for another- to hold dear.

Almost all of the definitions refer to this feeling about another person or to be on the receiving end of this feeling from another. I wonder why there is not a definition that includes affection for oneself.

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Avoiding burnout is like not watching a train wreck...

You see it coming (sometimes) and it's hard to stop the weeks, months, or years of events that got you to this point. Do you really want to get on the bullet train where things blur past and you can’t see what is happening around you?

How does it happen and what did I do about it? Better yet, what could I have done to slow down, stop, or hopefully avoid it happening?

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Stuff the Turkey, NOT Your Feelings

When you stuff your feelings, it’s like waiting for an explosion until you finally reach the amount you can stuff. I visualize it as an older suitcase that you put in all things you had. Then you get more stuff to shove it...it barely closes then but before you know it you are opening it to shove something else in and finally it won’t shut. So you put the suitcase on the floor, hop up and down on it trying to get the clasp to reach and finally….

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