People generally think there needs to be compromise in relationships. Is compromise a good thing? Think about compromise. Does it have a good feeling to it? Does this leave you feeling less than? Compromise takes a piece of you away. It diminishes you. A compromise is not a healthy choice because you are not choosing this option. You are being forced into this option. It makes you feel like you are giving up a piece of yourself. Prior to me setting boundaries with my husband,

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1. You are full of resentment. 2. You seem to be way more exhausted than the people around you. 3. You can’t remember the last time you said no. 4. Your energy is leaking all over the place. 5. You have no time or space to pursue your dreams and desires. 6. You are living in an adrenaline state. 7. You are bitchy and the people around you perceive you as a bitch. 8. You are always reacting instead of responding to situations. 9. You use up all of your attent

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The Thriving Woman's Guide to Setting Boundaries Journal, the companion to The Thriving Woman's Guide to Setting Boundaries is now available. This guided journal will help you discover what's stopping you from setting boundaries. From the back cover: Often we know we need to make changes in our lives, but we don’t have the awareness of what’s going on behind the challenges. Awareness precedes a shift and awareness precedes action. Sometimes all that we require to make a chang

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Did you know that children don’t start to develop reasoning skills until they are about 16 – 17 years old? Did you also know that reasoning skills aren’t generally fully developed until about the age of 25? Reasoning is the ability to predict an outcome from an action. If you have reasoning skills it means that you can figure out “if this, then that.” For example, if I do this (say this, behave this way, take this course of action), then that will happen (the outcome will be

As women, we frequently struggle with whether we have the right to set boundaries. We end up asking ourselves, “What if setting a boundary makes me seem like I’m not a kind, understanding or nice person?” Boundaries really have nothing to do with being kind or understanding or a nice person. They are operating instructions for you and everyone you interact with. If you thought of boundaries as operating instructions for your “system” and everyone with whom you interacted had