Tips To Implement Healthy Boundaries

Do You Want Your Relationships To Change For The Better? Boundaries will help you get there! Seriously, adding healthy boundaries to your relationships will make your life so much better and calmer. You see, sometimes we get into unhealthy patterns with the people in our family, friends, or even coworkers. Often what starts as good […]

Holiday Boundaries For New Viruses

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Holiday boundaries are still needed even in this season of epidemic. It’s still with us even though the world is opening up. Are you still getting together for the holidays? Is Zoom your new way of connecting the family this year? Everything has changed since last year, yet family differences still exist and may even […]

Baby Steps For Setting Boundaries

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Setting boundaries is hard for you and annoying (or downright infuriating) for others. It’s often said: the only people who get upset about your boundaries are those who benefited from you not having any. That means they can walk all over you, and manipulate you from here to Sunday. Boundaries are invisible fences that keep […]

The Freedom To Say No

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What happened to the freedom to say no? No one these days answers the question, “How do you live your life?” with the answer “I’m afraid to say no.” But so many of us live in this space of answering yes to every demand and request with alarming tenacity. No Freedom To Say No How […]

5 Ways To Say No To Victimhood

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Saying no to victimhood is an everyday challenge for those in recovery. Life in recovery is about moving forward no matter how bad you feel. Addiction wants us to accept being and staying empty. That is what addiction whispers to us every day. Let go of all effort. Just stay in bed with that fog. […]

10 Break-Up Take-Aways

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I needed some break-up take-aways to understand what happened and how I should feel about it.  When a relationship is over, you don’t have to think of it as failed, but simply completed. Your break-up provides an uninvited opportunity to examine the past and future.