Learning to set and maintain positive, healthy, personal boundaries is one of the most important steps in promoting a better sense of ones' self and thus, ultimately becoming capable of effectively communicating your self worth to others.
Changing our relationship with ourselves, first, is a critical component to making any long term changes in our relationships with others.
Positive, healthy personal boundaries are a set of physical, emotional and mental limits we establish in order to 1) best protect ourselves from any type of harm 2) Allow healthy people and relationships into our lives, while keeping out those that are not and 3) help us express ourselves as the unique individuals that we are, while simultaneously acknowledging and respecting the same in others.
We must learn to recognize that we are all individuals with our own thoughts, feelings, attitudes and values. This means we must also acknowledge the same is true for our spouses, children, friends, coworkers and others.
We are all entitled to have our boundaries respected and honored. This is the only way to have healthy relationships, of any sort, in our lives. This is a one important way to achieve the long term improvement you seek.
We are all entitled to have our boundaries respected and honored. This is the only way to have healthy relationships, of any sort, in our lives. This is a one important way to achieve the long term improvement you seek.
It is not possible to have a healthy relationship, of any kind, with someone who has no boundaries nor someone who cannot communicate their needs and wants, effectively and honestly. Therefore, learning to set your own personal boundaries is a vital step in learning to be a good friend to ourselves, as well, as others.
We change and grow as we experience life's transitions. You may have grown up and out of your past and current boundaries, even those which had once 'worked' or were unknown to us.
It may be time to reevaluate who we are, (now), who we want to become, and in what ways we would like to improve all the relationships in our lives, beginning with ourselves!
It may be time to reevaluate who we are, (now), who we want to become, and in what ways we would like to improve all the relationships in our lives, beginning with ourselves!
Promoting new, positive, healthier boundaries is a wonderful place to begin. Remember, it is never to late to establish, reestablish and/or maintain positive, healthy boundaries for yourself.
Please consider where your boundaries are and where you would like them to be.
I will discuss this topic in more depth, (i.e,: 'How'), in: Positive, Healthy Personal Boundaries - Part Two, coming soon.
I will discuss this topic in more depth, (i.e,: 'How'), in: Positive, Healthy Personal Boundaries - Part Two, coming soon.
Until then, please consider the fact that you have the 'right and a need' for healthy boundaries and so do others. The truth, however, is ours and theirs, do not always 'mesh' well, (at least not anymore).
Take the first step: Actually review your current personal boundaries and see which ones still apply, which no lone work well for you and therefore, must change!
Victoria
Victoria
Photo by: Victoria Baum, (Sidewalk Cafe in Quebec City)
