Selflove series (setting healthy boundaries)

 

●Selflove series 

◆(setting healthy boundaries)

●Selflove series🌼

-Setting healthy boundaries.


🌸Setting boundaries is an important part of establishing one’s identity and is a crucial aspect of mental health and well-being.

🌸Boundaries can be physical or emotional, and they can range from being loose to rigid, with healthy boundaries often falling somewhere in between.

🌸Learning to show compassion and kindness to yourself is crucial in setting healthy boundaries.

🌸In general, “Healthy boundaries are those boundaries that are set to make sure mentally and emotionally you are stable” Another way to think about it is that “Our boundaries might be rigid, loose, somewhere in between, or even nonexistent. A complete lack of boundaries may indicate that we don’t have a strong identity or are enmeshed with someone else” .

🌸Healthy boundaries can serve to establish one’s identity. Specifically, healthy boundaries can help people define their individuality and can help people indicate what they will and will not hold themselves responsible for.

🌸While boundaries are often psychological or emotional, boundaries can also be physical. For example, declining physical contact from a coworker is setting an important boundary, one that’s just as crucial as setting an emotional boundary, i.e., asking that same coworker not to make unreasonable demands on your time or emotions.


🌸Healthy boundaries are a crucial component of self-care. That’s because “in work or in our personal relationships, poor boundaries lead to resentment, anger, and burnout”

🌸Some teachers say that setting boundaries helps them avoid burnout and stay in the profession longer . This is important because it indicates that healthy boundaries at work help someone find more fulfillment and less stress in their professional life—leaving room for a better personal life.

🌸More generally, the consequences of not setting healthy boundaries often include “stress, financial burdens, wasted time, and relationship issues, which can cause mental distress” In other words, a lack of healthy boundaries can negatively affect all aspects of someone’s life.

🌸Setting healthy boundaries can have many benefits, including helping people make decisions based on what is best them, not just the people around them. This autonomy is an important part of self-care.

🌸In the context of recovering from substance abuse, self-care can include “meaningful connection with recovery support and children, taking care of physical health, maintaining spirituality, healthy eating, exercise, journaling, continuing education, staying busy, sponsorship, establishing boundaries, self-monitoring, abstinence, and dealing with destructive emotions”