Guilt Free Boundaries
Guilt Free boundaries: knowing your fundamental needs
The fear of enforcing boundaries is deep-seated. The fear of rejection, the fear of loss of connection…
However if we don’t have boundaries to protect our time and to honour our needs, we will end up feeling burnt out from oversubscribing our time and committing to do things that are not aligned with what we actually need or want to be doing, we will be out of our integrity. It is our responsibility to know what matters to us and to know what we need so that we can communicate this to others. With clarity of our needs, it makes it easier to enforce boundaries without guilt.
In the intro I asked you to think about why you are here, what is it that you want to be different? How do you want to feel? Take those answers and clearly write what your needs are, the need for peace, the need for rest, the need for play, or social connection etc. Based on those answers, what boundaries do you need in place to protect your time to do certain activities? (This will link with your answers from Day 2 for resourcing activities)
In Day 1 you were exploring what triggers you, how stress manifests and what it costs you. Based on those answers what boundaries do you need in place to protect your time and energy?
Please reflect on why it is important for you to enforce these boundaries. (Don’t forget the learning resource for further reflection, which is linked in your emails.)
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