Episode 39 | Creating Boundaries

Boundaries are essential for maintaining healthy relationships, protecting your well-being, and ensuring that your time and energy are spent in ways that align with your values. Without clear boundaries, feeling overwhelmed, taken advantage of, or burned out is easy.

In this episode, Evie and Emily dive into the importance of setting personal boundaries - emotionally, physically, and with time and space. They discuss what boundaries matter, how they impact relationships, and ways to establish and maintain them effectively. They also explore self-reflection techniques, mindfulness, and creative exercises to help you gain clarity on your own limits.

 

Episode highlights:

• Understanding different types of boundaries
• How to communicate and enforce limits
• Avoiding burnout and resentment
• Mindfulness and creative exercises for self-reflection

 

Helpful Links:

Psych Central: The Importance of Personal Boundaries

Positive Psychology: How to Set Healthy Boundaries & Build Positive Relationships

 

The Four Q’s

Question:

What are some ways you’ve adopted healthy boundaries in your life?

 

Quest:

Set a boundary!

 

Quality Creativity:

Art Therapy Directive: Creative a visual representation of your relationships and the various levels of access you give them to your life - your time, personal information, and your attention.

 

Quote:

“I would rather adjust my life to your absence than adjust my boundaries to accommodate your disrespect.”

• @iheartintelligence

 

For additional info, check out our show notes page:

Episode 39: Creating Boundaries

 

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Episode Credits:

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends in the midst of figuring out how to live our best lives. Emily Soape produces the show.

 

Music:

Theme Music:

“Living Life” by ⁠Scott Holmes Music⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠.

Break Background Music:

"Alive In It" by ⁠Ketsa⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠