Day 2 Pay attention to your anxiety and you will find what needs a boundary. Consider rest.Do you ignore the body’s signals for rest to meet another’s expectation? The short-term win of anxiety avoidance is quick to tower over the anxiety-inducing experience of disappointing others. For the longterm gain, setting boundaries will ask you to … Continue reading Boundary Renaissance, 2
Tag: Mental Health
Boundary Renaissance, 1
Day 1 Boundaries are difficult. Full stop.Before you declare a boundary renaissance, would you first be willing to look inward? Sustainable boundaries are set and (important part) maintained, when you are aware of what is happening internally.Sustainable boundaries are set when you are…willing to be aware.open, not dismissive to body signals.listening and not minimizing your … Continue reading Boundary Renaissance, 1
Codependency, 1
The genesis of co-dependence begins by the repression of our observations, feelings and reactions. -Charles L. Whitfield, Healing The Child Within Journal Prompt: What emotional pain have you cultivated a tolerance for?
Acceptance, 3
Two Versions of Acceptance. Version One: I can coach myself into surface-level being okay with this. But in stress, you’ll discover my hoard of marinated anger and resentment stacked in the backyard, blink-speed access. Version Two: I perhaps don’t agree or like this, yet I have cultivated peace that this is what is true in my life. I am choosing to make the decisions I can from my side of the fence. Journal Prompts: On my side of the fence... I am building up resentment...
Acceptance, 2
Death-grip clinging to wishful change is not acceptance. Journal Prompts: What if... What is...
Acceptance
Boundaries, 3
Boundaries, 2
A Journal Prompt for Dropping the Ball
Does dropping the proverbial ball need to define you? Might you shelf your character assassination for the acknowledgement that there is much happening outside of your control. Journal Prompt: ...is out of my control
Gaps
You respond to what is missing. Life will absolutely leave gaps. If you spend your life arranging everything around what is missing, you live in reactivity. What would it look like if the gaps were not in the driver’s seat? Journal Prompts: I arrange around... If my gaps didn’t drive, I would...
