Tag: boundaries
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Privacy and Secrecy
Privacy,honoring the partsthat are all yours,staying independent,retaining autonomy,making choices aboutwhen, what, and how muchyou share,keeping some space.Privacy-normal, healthy, safe, boundaried,and yet still trustworthy.Secrecy,protecting the Selfto avoid consequences, vulnerability,or taking responsibility,controlling how others perceive you,through lying, manipulation, deception, hiding.Secrecy-withholding truths that affect relationships, affect others,eroding, disconnecting, building barriers,worthy of distrust.”Privacy protects; secrecy sabotages.” Sara Kubric
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The Universe Hears You
I truly believeThe Universe hears you-Your deepest needs,Your readiness for growth,Your silent fears-And sends you messages,Through people, texts, emails, nature, clouds,Animals, words, signs, reflections, chance meetings.Today I read Deja Rae’s words-“…by standing strong in your truth, you naturally weed outeveryone and everythingthat doesn’t align with you.”I knew the Universe had put those words before me,Reminding…
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Boundaries
Boundaries! Say what!? You want me to examine my needs and determine who or what I will allow in my life and under what circumstances? This concept was foreign to me, a people pleaser, a rule follower, a box checker. But now I thrive because I am discerning about what I will and won’t accept.…
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Valuing Our Needs
Step 1: Know What You Want and Need. I take time to listen to the yearnings of my heart, my passions and desires, my pain and sorrow, my preferences and interests. I sit with feelings, spend time alone, go out in nature. I identify what needs come from within. Step 2: Honor What You Want…
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Homeostasis
Recently I was working with a high school student on his homework assignment. It was all about homeostasis. We had an interesting conversation about it, he defined it in his own words and conceptualized his project. But I was left pondering the word all night. Homeostasis: the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent…
The Journey Inward 