Learning about and practicing healthy personal and relationship boundaries is challenging, especially if you grew up in a family that didn’t know how boundaries work. The fundamentals of good boundary work are complex because they’re fluid—meaning they are different in different relationships, and at different stages of your life. For example, the kind of boundaries you establish with a toddler are… Continue Reading…
4 Reasons Boundaries ≠ Bitchy
Let’s face it, there is nothing exciting, intriguing, and definitely nothing sexy about personal boundaries. Most people’s first response to hearing the word is typically an (invisible) eye-roll or an audible “Ugh.” A few years ago when I was talking to a friend about wanting to write a book about boundaries,* she said: “Whatever you do, don’t call it ‘Boundaries’!” I… Continue Reading…