Illuminating the Shadow: BOUNDARIES! Those aren't your bags, Baby!

Illuminating the Shadow

Illuminating the Shadow: BOUNDARIES! Those aren't your bags, Baby!

BOUNDARIES do not BIND, they LIBERATE

So as you begin to reflect upon the relationships in your life… relationships with your family, relationships with your friends, your partner, co-workers… Do you feel HEARD? Do you feel VALUED? Do you feel safe? Do you feel like you can openly express your own needs? Do you feel safe expressing your boundaries? When you think about boundaries within your relationships… What comes up for you? As you begin to reflect upon the boundaries you see as examples in your life, in your relationships, perhaps you begin to question whether or not these cycles and beliefs about boundaries that once held you, that once kept you comfortable and safe in what you knew at the time, if you are beginning to see that these behaviors and beliefs aren’t serving you any longer, and you’re ready to release yourself from their holds, well it may be time to start to begin to think about your own personal journey in boundaries. Boundaries are the common ground and the very foundation of where our personal values & beliefs, our sense of self and our emotions meet. And they are also sometimes where they clash.

What if I told you that people treat you EXACTLY how you allow them to treat you? What if I told you that we show people HOW to treat us and we show them the very BEHAVIORS that we find acceptable, and these behaviors and tendencies are directly reflected in the very BOUNDARIES (or lack of them) that we set forth?

While boundaries may seem limiting or restrictive sometimes to others, when used appropriately they are QUITE the opposite and they are LIBERATING AF!! OUR BOUNDARIES KEEP US SAFE. But boundaries are much more than that, when we set boundaries, we then have the capacity to recognize and accept and to MEET our own needs. Boundaries are the courageous manner through which we act to nurture ourselves, through our confidence to SPEAK our TRUTH. When we set boundaries we have the courage to LOVE and honor ourselves and to meet our needs, and we can then act to reclaim our power and to re-write some of our outdated narratives, if we find that they are no longer serving us.

In this episode of Illuminating the Shadow podcast, we will be shining a gentle light of awareness upon some our beliefs, tendencies and patterns when it comes to our relationships with others, as we continue our discussion on boundaries.

Join me as we will explore these themes and much more as we seek out to illuminate the shadow together.

There is power in your voice and there is medicine in your story.

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