Establishing Healthy Boundaries – Set Yourself up for Success
Boundaries can seem like a complicated thing to achieve and it can feel very overwhelming if you are not used to living a life with boundaries. Perhaps you are a people pleaser and always trying to make everyone else happy. Or maybe you have been in a co-dependent relationship, whether with a family member(s), romantically or with friends (heck maybe all the above). In many of these situations having a lack of boundaries and letting others constantly disregard or cross your boundaries sets you up for feelings of increased anxiety and stress. We teach people how to treat us by what we allow in our lives. This concept can be very difficult to accept. Depending on how you were raised, you may not be accustomed to being personally accountable for your feelings and circumstances. It is often easier to blame others for their actions and how they “make” us feel or what they “make” us do. While other people’s actions can have impacts on us personally, their actions can NOT make y...