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Set Boundaries to Create New Worlds · Remember Why You Are Here

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Boundaries are not acts of separation.
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They're acts of devotion to the life that you came here to create,
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the life that you came here to tend. Through setting that boundary,
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you are creating a new world.
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Hello and welcome back to Remember Why you're here,
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a podcast for seekers and sensitives where you can relax, receive,
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reconnect to yourself and remember the most important thing of all,
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why you're here. I'm Asia Souler, author,
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earth intuitive teacher. And in this episode today,
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we're going to explore something that I really think has the ability to change
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the world if we all just actually allow ourselves to have them.
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And that is boundaries. So in this episode today,
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we're specifically exploring how you setting boundaries in your life
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is a force that can create new worlds.
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And I think that this is something we all deeply need at this
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time on our planet, both personally and collectively.
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So I'm really excited about being able to do that in- person work with such an
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incredible group of sensitives. All right. With that,
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let's hop into our podcast episode for today.
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First, I want to define what boundaries are because often I think,
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especially for us sensitives and empaths,
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we hear the word boundaries and we hear hardness, we hear rigidity,
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we hear rupture, but that's not what boundaries are.
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Boundaries are a clear recognition of where your responsibility
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ends and someone else's begins.
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It is your boundaries.
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Are you recognizing the natural edges of your own energy,
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which also means recognizing what is your responsibility and what is not,
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and how to take care of your life force.
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This is what boundaries are at their heart.
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They are beautiful layers, beautiful boundaries,
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beautiful interstitial zones we create so that we can continue to cultivate our
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own life force so that the force that we have within us is able to
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accumulate and blossom in this world.
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So boundaries are not something you impose upon another person.
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It's something you're clear about within yourself.
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And this is a big update that I think us sensitives and empaths really,
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really need because setting boundaries is just very hard for us.
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I'm going to talk about why in just a minute,
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but a lot of that has to do with this story that this is something that we are
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imposing upon other people.
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This is something that we are doing to other people when really it's just
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something that we're getting clear on inside of ourselves.
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Within a relational context,
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boundaries are our clarity and our understanding around what we need in
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order to feel safe and comfortable inside of relating, inside of relationships,
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what we need in order for our own life force to be
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safeguarded, our own life force to continue to flow and be nourished.
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So I like to say this and repeat this like ad infinitum for my fellow
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sensitives, but boundaries are not about keeping people out,
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it's about keeping you in.
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And this is so important for all my empaths out there,
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all my sensitives,
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because what we tend to do when we struggle with boundaries is we
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overgive, we overflow,
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we frack our own energy and nervous system and just give it out to the point
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where we have nothing left or we're even in the negative.
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So boundaries are not about keeping other people out. It's about keeping you in.
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You're setting boundaries,
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not because you want distance or you're trying to abandon people.
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You're setting boundaries because that's what helps you stay within your
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energy.
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Your life force is what helps your life force to actually flow into this
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world. Ultimately,
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this is about a stewardship of that energy that each of us are born with,
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that each of us is here to be a channel for. And when you set boundaries,
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what you're doing is you're actually allowing that channel,
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the integrity of that channel to stay intact so that the energy you are meant to
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bring into this world to help this world shift can actually flow and
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be available for what it is here to touch and move and amplify.
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And I think it's really important for us to remember that life is possible
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because of boundaries.
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Boundaries are what make life on earth what it is.
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It's why we come here to experience this planet is to have a self and interact
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with other selves. And that dissolves,
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that becomes impossible when there are no boundaries.
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And so I think this is something too,
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for those of us who are sensitive and who are just innately connected into
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spiritual reality that we have to remind ourselves of constantly,
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like we are here on this planet to have a self and this self is here to
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interact with other selves and we can be caring, we can be compassionate,
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we can be generous,
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we can be all of those things and still have boundaries that maintain
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the sanctity of ourself, our energy, and our life force.
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So you see boundaries everywhere you look in the natural world.
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Cell membranes have boundaries.
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These boundaries can either be too rigid nor too flexible.
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They have to be this beautiful in between in order for that cell to continue to
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function and be who it is.
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A forest has boundaries and often it's the boundary line actually between where
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two landscapes meet, where the forest meets the meadow,
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where the richest diversity lives inside of an ecosystem.
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These are called these interstitial zones.
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And these interstitial zones like a tidal marsh, for example,
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are places where we tend to find more abundance,
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more diversity and more potential for life.
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And that's because there's a boundary between these two places that make these
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two places separate and distinct. In my book,
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Mirrors and the Earth, I talk about boundaries as cultivating a garden.
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You can't have a garden without boundaries. If there's no boundaries,
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there's no garden.
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Your life is a garden and you get to decide what you want to
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plant in it.
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That's the deal.That's part of the parcel of coming here is we get
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this garden that is our body, our creativity, our life force, our attention,
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and we get to decide, what do I want to do with this?
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What do I want to plant here? And ultimately,
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the garden that you are on this planet is increasing and adding to the overall
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diversity and potential of this earth.
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And so it's very important that you set those boundaries,
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you make those decisions, because if we don't,
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then we lose the ability to cultivate what we are here to cultivate with our own
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energy and life force.
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We lose the ability to become gardeners who bring flowers of potential to this
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planet.
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So let's talk about some kinds of boundaries before we drop into
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how you know if you need them and guidance on how to create these boundaries in
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your life. So there are energy boundaries.
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These are boundaries about who and what gets access to your nervous system.
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Energy boundaries are harder to pinpoint than some other boundaries.
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And yet for sensitives and empaths,
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energetic boundaries are often the place where we're most wobbly.
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We might be able to state that we're not available to lend someone money or
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not available on a certain night to hang out.
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But when it comes to the energetic boundaries of being in someone's presence,
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we often get a little thrown off here of like, where am I putting my energy?
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Where am I caretaking with my own nervous system?
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Who is getting access to my nervous system right now?
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So this also goes in line with emotional boundaries.
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Emotional boundaries are what feelings belong to you and what feelings belong to
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others. And I often find when our energetic boundaries are wobbly,
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these emotional boundaries disappear completely. And the thing is,
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as sensitives, as empaths,
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we are built to feel other people's feelings.
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We literally have more mirror neurons firing in our brain than the average
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person.
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And so it's hardwired into us to have a high degree of empathy.
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And because of this,
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those emotional boundaries are probably something that we need to work on,
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especially as adults, to recognize what is mine and what is not.
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What I often find with emotional boundaries is that they need physical space,
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that taking physical space from people is really important.
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And I'm not just talking about removing yourself from their presence,
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but I'm also talking about turning off notifications on your phone,
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not taking that phone call, not returning that email,
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taking just a little bit of space,
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a pause so that you can start to examine what is mine and what is not.
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Where are the emotional boundaries here?
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Because there's also often a interface where if
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you are taking on other people's feelings,
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it's probably because they're in some state of dysregulation.
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And some part of you believes that it is your job to take that on and fix
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it, to create regulation by self-abandoning,
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by overgiving,
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by overriding your own capacity in order to regulate them in whatever
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way you possibly can, and therefore create more regulation in the environment.
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It's a noble endeavor, bless us for doing this,
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and that's not our job. And ultimately,
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taking some space can help you see that.
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This will also help you see your attention boundaries.
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So what is in your mind? What are you giving your attention to?
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And this is huge right now. This is, I think,
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one of the most important lessons that's coming up right now for sensitives,
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for empaths, is what are you allowing into your consciousness?
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What are you allowing into your mind?
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And often we have this sense inside of us that if we
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are not attuned to everything that's going on in the world,
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every disaster in the world, then we're somehow tuning out.
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We're somehow selfish.
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We're somehow not going to be able to show up and be of service. But actually,
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the opposite is true.
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What's normally happening is that we're actually getting inundated
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by sensory information that is then shutting down our
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ability to be a force of change in this world.
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It prevents us,
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it causes a backlog of emotion and charge inside of us
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that makes it so that we just end up collapsing instead of tuning into the
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creative life force that we have and directing it towards where we are meant to
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be putting our attention.
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So this is not a clarion call to never read the news again,
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but it is a clarity on call to get clear about your own attention boundaries,
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where your attention wants to go, what you're allowing into your mind,
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and the boundaries that you need to set around that. And then of course,
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we have time boundaries.
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Time boundaries are literally what gets your hours?
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What gets your life force? What are you spending your time on?
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I notice that two things tend to happen with time boundaries.
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When we are
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"procrastinating," normally that's because we're in a state of overwhelm.
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There's actually,
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we're needing regulation and because we feel like we don't have
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full permission to just go lay down or take a walk or do the things we really
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need to do to regulate,
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we end up "procrastinating" with something that's actually not that fulfilling,
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like scrolling on our phone.
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The other side of time boundaries is that we end up
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overgiving our time to things that are not nourishing us,
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but that feel like they are essential.
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So maybe that's talking to your friend for the 10th time about the same
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exact thing that's going on in their life and you don't see them making any
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changes or really even trying to make a shift in their life.
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Or maybe this is getting blurred a little bit for you with attention boundaries.
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Maybe you are watching that show on Netflix that all your friends are watching
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and they are like, "You have to see this with us,
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but you're noticing it's actually not giving you anything in your life." Time
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boundaries are essential for sensitives and empaths.
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We can really be like time wizards. When we are in flow state,
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we can create so much,
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but often we're having trouble setting those time boundaries
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because either we are actually needing regulation in that moment or we are
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afraid of disappointing people.
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We are afraid of what's going to happen if we don't show up.
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And that's good to name and we're going to talk more about how to set these
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boundaries in a moment. And then of course there's physical boundaries,
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there's material boundaries, there's intellectual boundaries.
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Physical boundaries are limits of what you will or will not do with your body.
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There's material boundaries,
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limits and boundaries around the way in which you share quote unquote your
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possessions, your money,
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the things that are the physical objects that are in your field,
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and then intellectual boundaries, boundaries around your work,
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how you share your work,
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what's appropriate in terms of other people sharing your work,
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your ability to express your opinions. What I find is that the physical,
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material, intellectual boundaries, when these are wobbly,
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it's usually because sensitives are having issues with the
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emotional and the energetic boundaries.
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So I think that these are really some of the more primary ones.
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And then these other ones sort of follow suit in that wobble.
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So let's talk about why sensitives have such a hard time
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with boundaries. And I'm looping myself in this.
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Learning boundaries has been a lifelong process for me.
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It will continue my whole life.
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And there's a specific reason for this.
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So as sensitives and as empaths,
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normally our overgiving, the patterns that we have of overgiving,
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that was some sort of currency in our life, especially in our earlier life.
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At some point,
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we were praised for our overaccommodating skills.
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That was how we experienced belonging, how we experienced safety,
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how we experienced attachment,
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that something was required of us, that we had to overaccommodate,
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put ourselves second or put ourselves last and prioritize
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other people's needs, wants, and desires first.
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And so for many of us,
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this is part of how our nervous system developed,
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that this is the most valuable thing we can give really is to give away
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ourselves and to overaccommodate in this manner.
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And so what I noticed with other sensitives is that setting
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boundaries can literally feel like setting yourself on fire.
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And I really just want to be so gentle with you and with all of
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us that of course it does because every time we set a boundary,
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there's most likely a much younger part of us that is going,
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"This might destroy everything. I might be abandoned.
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I might be destitute. I might have no one.
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I might never experience belonging." Those stories are running
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subconsciously around this need to set boundaries.
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There might something really terrible might happen that me setting a boundary
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might mean that somebody gets really, really hurt physically or emotionally.
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And a lot of these are due to earlier life experiences,
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ways in which us setting boundaries earlier in our life was not
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okay,
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but seeing the pattern and understanding the pattern can help us become present
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with what's true right now.
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There's also this reality where we don't want to feel somebody
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else's pain, hurt and disappointment. That's really uncomfy.
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And the reality about being an empath in particular is that you will feel it,
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you will feel it, and it's going to be challenging.
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It will be really hard to feel someone's system collapse or someone's system go
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into panic or freak out mode,
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and that is part of the process.
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And it's important to remember that we are not
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protecting them by not setting boundaries.
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It's actually the opposite.
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We are not giving them an opportunity to truly be in relationship with us
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because real relationship is about two people relating.
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And if you are giving everything, if you are self-abandoning,
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if you are overaccommodating,
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you're not showing up real and authentic inside of this relationship.
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And so it is an act of kindness to give people the potential and the possibility
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to be in relationship with you. And that's an important reframe. Of course,
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another aspect of the difficulty in setting boundaries is that as empaths and as
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sensitives, we are naturally emotional beings.
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Highly sensitive people have really deep emotional systems.
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Those emotional messengers are very loud and very present in our systems.
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And so we don't want to feel the feelings that happen after we set the
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boundary, feelings of guilt,
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worry about being perceived as selfish, the fear of abandonment.
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All of those things will probably come up when we set a boundary,
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especially when it's new to us.
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And because we've learned in the past that care equals
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self-abandonment,
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we will have this innate fear that if we don't
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self-abandon,
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if we are clear about our boundaries or what we need and it's at conflict and
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at odds with what somebody else thinks they need,
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then we will automatically default to probably one of the deepest programs that
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we have, which is the worry or the fear that we're not good,
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the worry and the fear that we are selfish and we're not good people,
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that our goodness is dependent on our ability to over give and overaccommodate.
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And that is just really, really challenging to sit with.
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So it makes sense that we don't want to do this.
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We were taught from a young age that our job was to manage other people's
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emotions. It's just the world that we live in. And for many of us,
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it's also the family systems, the relationships that we experienced early on.
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But the update is that it is actually not your job to manage other people's
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feelings.
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And people who really want to be in true relationship with you don't want to be
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managed.
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And this process of setting where boundaries will change and shift who is in
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your life, who you're interacting with,
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the kind of time you're spending with people, and it will set you free.
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People talk a lot in nervous system science,
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in the world of nervous system awareness around the different responses
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to activation, to feeling unsafe. So we have fight, we have flight,
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we have freeze, we have fighting someone,
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that sort of boundary holding, we have the running away, we have the free state,
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but for sensitives and empaths,
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the thing we most often will default to is the fond
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response.
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So the fon response is everything I just talked about.
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It's when we sense threat, we sense danger,
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we go into overaccommodating, we go into meeting someone's needs,
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we go into basically becoming lovable so that someone won't
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dispose of us, that we won't be in even deeper danger. And it's a really,
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really smart survival response, like really brilliant.
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And I just want to bow down to the parts of you that develop this
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response because it works, dude. And at the same time,
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as adults,
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the slow roll updates that we get to make are that we
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don't have to abandon ourselves in order to be truly loved and
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accepted,
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and that we get to set boundaries to keep us
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in. And the people who are meant to continue on with us in our life journey,
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they will be the ones who applaud you when you set those boundaries.
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So I'm curious,
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what is one boundary you need to set in your life?
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Maybe something has come up for you as I'm talking,
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as I talked about the different kinds of boundaries or why boundaries are
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particularly hard for sensitives and impaths.
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I guarantee you there's probably something bumping around at the edges of your
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consciousness right now. And I'm curious, what is that?
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What is one thing that you think of and you notice that your energy immediately
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shifts?
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This is often a good sign that there's a boundary that needs to
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be set here.
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Some other good signs of boundaries needing to be set are feeling overwhelmed.
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Overwhelm is, I'm going to be didactic here.
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I think it is a sign for a need for more boundaries 100% of the
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time. And that, again, could be boundaries with people,
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could be boundaries with your time, could be boundaries with your attention,
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sensitives. We have such an incredible ability to pour our attention like water
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upon the earth and create so much,
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but we need to know where our attention is going.
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We need to know and be aware of the ways in which we are giving that attention
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away and the ways in which that attention could actually be poured into what
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we're meant to create here. Now,
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bringing your attention back to this place that you might need to set boundaries
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within your life, I'm curious,
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do you notice a sense of tightening in your throat or maybe in your
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belly or your jaw? Do you feel like that belly drop sensation?
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You know that sensation where you're like,
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"Oh gosh." Or sudden fatigue.
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I often notice my energy will just kind of tank.
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These are all good signs that there is a boundary needed here.
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Some other signs here
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in general in your life to be able to track when you need a boundary,
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because this is also something that I think is really important.
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There are going to be things in our life that we're super aware that we need
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boundaries with.
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And there's also going to be things in our life that we are not so aware that we
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need better boundaries with.
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So learning how to track the signs of your body telling you,
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"I need more of a boundary here," will really help you start to become fluent in
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your own inner language and set the boundaries you need to thrive.
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So we talked already about that energy drop sensation.
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There's also this subtle dread.
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If you have a feeling or a sense of subtle dread,
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that's probably a sign you need boundaries.
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Any kinds of tightness or constriction, that's literally your body being like,
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"Ugh, let's create a boundary here." Resentment.
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Resentment's a big one.
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If you find yourself resenting people who are asking things of you or
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resenting your phone or resenting your job,
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these are all signs that more boundaries are needed there because resentment is
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actually a moment where you,
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it's indicative of when you overgive
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and then are wanting to pull that energy back or wanting that energy back and
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you're resenting the fact that you actually overrode your own boundaries
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and really it's asking you to call your attention to the boundaries that need to
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exist in your life. So notice where you feel resentment.
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Any anxiety or dread also signs that we need boundaries in our
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life, loss of presence. If you're like zoning out, if you're tuning out,
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if you have a hard time being present with someone or something,
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there's probably an energetic boundary that needs to be there,
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the urge to please. So the moment we step into that people pleasing mode of,
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let me make it better for you,
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dead giveaway that we need boundaries in that moment and overexplaining.
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If you find yourself overexplaining something you did or overexplaining
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a boundary you want to set,
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overexplaining why you did what you felt called to do,
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that's also a sign that there is a need for boundaries here.
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And like I mentioned before, we often, when we think about boundaries,
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we kind of get stuck sometimes in this trap of, "Oh,
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my boundaries are being violated." But most of the time it's that our boundaries
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just aren't clear and that in this way,
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we actually might be crossing our own boundaries to overgive,
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to self-abandon, to overaccommodate.
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And so what we're looking for here is clarity.
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So boundaries are not about hardness, they are about clarity.
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There's a sense to boundaries when they are authentic and truly what we need,
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that they will feel rooted,
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simple once we implement them and they are in our life,
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untangled and breathable. Ah,
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the sense that you can breathe again in that corner of your life. Now,
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I'm not going to lie. Setting a boundary will be hard at first,
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especially if you're setting a boundary in a new and different way for you.
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I often liken it to walking through the fire in order to drink from the
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stream on the other side. And there really is no way but through.
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That is how it goes and it's not punitive. It's not a punishment.
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It's actually teaching your nervous system that it's okay to set boundaries
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because when you do it and the big feelings come up,
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you will stay with yourself.
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So this is huge and that's the whole goal.
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Not only is it to speak aloud your boundary, to set that boundary,
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but then to companion yourself afterwards.
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So on a very logistical level, when you are setting a boundary,
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whether it's with yourself or with someone else, be clear in your language,
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be clear about what that boundary is and make it about yourself,
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especially in talking with someone else instead of being like,
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"I'm setting this boundary because you do this.
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" I'm setting this boundary because I need this because that's the truth.
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That's why we are actually setting that boundary.
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And then once we have that clear statement of what this boundary is,
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follow up with an action if it's not respected.
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So what action are you willing to take if that limit is crossed?
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That piece is actually really essential to upholding our boundaries because we
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can say something, and this happens a lot for our sensitives.
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We can say something and then we can end up overriding our own boundaries.
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We can end up saying yes, even though we actually wanted to say no.
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And we said we were going to say no when we first had that conversation with
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them about that event, and then we backtracked and we said yes,
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but setting boundaries about getting clear with yourself around not only what is
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that boundary,
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but also what is the consequence if that boundary is overwridden or what
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action are you willing to take if that boundary is crossed and then take that
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action.
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Not only is that how you teach other people that your boundaries are for real,
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it's also you teaching yourself and your nervous system that you can
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be trusted. This is really just so,
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so big for us sensitives who from probably A very young
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age, we're told that we were too much, too emotional, too fragile,
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all those things that we struggle with self-trust.
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I'm feeling this big thing. Is that real?
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I'm sensing this thing happening over there,
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but then that person's saying that's not happening. Is this real?
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Self-trust is so important. We also often,
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in the past,
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because we have gotten into patterns of people pleasing and overgiving,
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that there's probably a wound there of thinking, "Can I trust myself?
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Can I trust myself to set this boundary and maintain it?
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" So every time you set that boundary and you maintain it and you take the
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action that you promise yourself you would take,
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if that boundary gets violated or gets wobbly,
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you are proving to your nervous system that you can be trusted.
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And this is huge.
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Our nervous system is getting updates the entire time we're moving through a
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process of setting a boundary.
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So nothing is wrong if hard stuff comes up because really that's
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a huge part of what's coming up and out and being purged from your system in
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order to have the capacity to continue to make life giving boundaries for
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yourself. So it's normal, for example,
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to want to go back on what you said or to second guess what you said.
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It's normal to have all your old survival
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wiring come back on board,
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like the sense like I'm going to lose belonging to go into a freeze or collapse
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response, emotional flooding, fatigue,
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and the adrenaline drop afterwards. Because often when you set a boundary,
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what might help you ride into setting that boundary is this adrenaline.
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You decide to do it, I'm going to do it, I'm going to say it.
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Especially when it comes to other people.
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And then we do it and then we have to be with what will probably be
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some sort of dysregulation on part of the person who we set the boundary with,
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maybe not. And then that's a huge blessing, but that does often come up.
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We have to be with that. And then afterwards, there's the adrenaline crash.
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And the whole point of all of this is just to stay with
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yourself,
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to know that this is how your nervous system is purging and updating itself.
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And your only task is to continue to be with yourself.
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So know that aftercare is a really important part for empaths and
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sensitives in setting boundaries.
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So some things that help me with aftercare is to verbally name what's
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happening. So I might stand in the mirror and say,
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"It makes so much sense that you're having a really hard time right now.
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You just set a really big boundary and now your heart is racing and now you feel
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exhausted and now you feel like a plane that can't land in your life." And that
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really makes sense because of everything you just did.
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And it's so big and I'm so proud of you.
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So whatever it is that works for you to name it,
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that process that I often use sort of crosses over into this territory of
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engaging in positive self-talk and working with your parts.
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So parts work are internal family systems.
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This is a system where you are speaking to the part of you that is terrified.
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Another part of you is like, "Yes,
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I've been needing to do this forever and I'm celebrating." Another part of you
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is like, "I might die." And so you're speaking to the part of you that's like,
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"I might die." And you're holding that part of you and you're acknowledging
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them, you're acknowledging that they're scared,
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and you're also acknowledging that you're not going to leave them,
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that you're there with them forever.
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You're staying with them throughout this entire experience.
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It's also really helpful in the aftercare of setting a boundary to reduce
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decision making. So don't do any other big things for a few days after that.
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Really let go of any other decision making you can during that time and just
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know that you're recouping. You're recouping from a really,
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really big energetic movement that you made in your life.
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And then anything that is self-soothing to you in this period of time,
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maybe it's a show you love to watch. Maybe it's going for walks,
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maybe it's petting your dog, maybe it's playing with a fidget toy.
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Any of these things that help you soothe,
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make sure that you have those tools and you build them into the time after
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you set that boundary. Because here's the deal,
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you wouldn't have the desire for that boundary, for that space,
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for that clarity if your inner self didn't know that this was the key
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to you accessing the fullness of your life force,
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that this is the key to you living your mission on this planet and
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being a part of the great healing that is happening here at this time.
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So when you set these boundaries, you're not just setting them for yourselves,
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you are setting them for the whole world because you can.
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You can create an entirely new world for yourself in your life
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and for the wider world when you set boundaries.
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Like I said before, boundaries are what make relationships possible.
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We cannot relate from one autonomous being to another unless there is some sort
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of boundary between us. Otherwise, it's just an enmeshed hole.
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And this is why we come to this planet because we're super curious about that
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interplay of polarity and dichotomy and
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selfhood. It's the play here.
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And so we need boundaries in order to have a relationship.
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Boundaries preserve relationships. They do not destroy relationships.
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Healthy relationships flourish in the presence of boundaries.
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And at the end of the day, everything on earth here is relational.
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Healing is relational. Possibility is relational.
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The co-creation is relational.
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Revolution is relational.
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And so if we want to feed those things on this planet,
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if we want to see this planet come into a
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revolution of co-creation and community and
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collaboration again,
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we need to be willing to do that work to set those boundaries
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for ourselves. This is where it starts. The world, as we know it,
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is a giant example of what happens without proper
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boundaries. We see things like abuse, war, exploitation,
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pollution, trauma.
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So if you want to know what it looks like to live in a world where people are
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not actively engaged with their boundaries and therefore unable to really
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perceive other people's boundaries and honor those boundaries, just look around.
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So we are fractals of this world. And when you set boundaries,
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you allow your life changing energy to flow where it needs to flow.
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You change the story on this planet.
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You allow for the possibility of deeper relationships on this planet,
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deeper relationality, deeper co-creation. And yes,
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you create a new world.
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I just want you to take a moment here to imagine how different the world would
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be if we all had healthy boundaries. Really imagine that.
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Imagine the way you would feel in your life if you had the boundaries that you
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needed to be able to access your higher guidance,
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to feel your life force flowing through you, to have access to your creativity,
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your life force, your centeredness,
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to be a conduit for unconditional love as you let
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that unconditional love flow through you first.
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Really feel that inside of yourself.
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And then imagine if everyone felt that way.
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Everything changes, right?
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Everything changes and everything changes starting with you.
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Every time you as a sensitive or an empath set a boundary that you need in your
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life, you are choosing the world you want to live inside.
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Boundaries are not acts of separation.
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They're acts of devotion to life itself.
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They're acts of devotion to the life that you came here to create the life that
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you came here to tend. And make no mistake,
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you and your life force are deeply needed in this world.
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You are here to bring something essential to this planet.
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And that essential thing,
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it flows naturally from you when you are willing to
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safeguard and become a caretaker for your own energy,
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to create the sanctuary that your energy needs in order to thrive and flourish.
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This is how movements happen that change the world.
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This is how passion and love shape shift the environment around us and
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how we move towards greater wholeness as a collective.
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So whatever it is that you're ready to set a boundary within your life,
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know this, remember this. And remember that through setting that boundary,
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you are creating a new world.
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So if you want a space where you can
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understand your boundaries in a whole new light,
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get so clear on what those boundaries are,
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reorganize your life so that you have the tools and perspectives
39:11
to create relationships that feel life giving to you.
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If you want to shift your focus away from always creating harmony for others to
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creating a haven in your life,
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then definitely come join me for Earth Angel School.
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This is what we do in this school. We give you your life back.
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We help you fall in love with life again because you understand who you are,
39:36
how you work, what you need, and what's possible for you.
39:41
As one of our students, Rachel, wrote after taking the course last year,
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"I am not broken. I'm an earth angel. The reframes are worth everything.
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I spent most of my life feeling like my sensitivity was something I must
39:52
overcome or there was something inherently wrong with me.
39:55
" Being able to shift this perspective,
39:57
pull back and shine light on another way of seeing was incredibly impactful.
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And this is why I use the term earth angel because we need to reclaim and
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reframe what it means to be a sensitive.
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If we think about this archetype of angels,
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angels are full of their own power in life force.
40:14
They know that they have this potential to bring healing and positivity to the
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world and they don't do it through abandoning themselves or overaccommodating.
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Angels do it because they understand their power. They emanate that power.
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And on the very first day of class,
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I'm going to take you even deeper behind why I'm using this term earth angel,
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the secret that will kick off this entire mystery school together and
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really help you see yourself in a completely new light.
40:43
As another participant in the class said, "This course is life changing,
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deeply inspiring and so very nourishing.
40:49
It has helped me to advocate for my needs, heal from burnout,
40:52
and led me into my wider life's calling." So over the course of 12 weeks
40:57
together in Earth Angel School,
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we are going deep into this material of self-healing and self-revelation.
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We have weekly classes,
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so you'll be getting it together with me every week for a class.
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We also have breakout discussion groups that happen every other week,
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which I also lead,
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and there's an optional retreat at the end of the program if you'd like to
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gather with me in person.
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And that doesn't even cover our library of incredible bonus material with
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classes such as engaging in your life force and the erotic as a highly
41:28
sensitive person, parenting as an earth angel, working with creativity,
41:33
and so, so, so, so much more. So early bird pricing ends next week,
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Monday the 30th. So if you know this is for you,
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if a part of you is just resonating with this like a singing bowl,
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then I would love to journey with you there.
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And no matter where you are in your journey and what you need right now,
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know that you are allowed to have what you need.
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You are allowed to have the things, the energy,
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the boundaries that you need to flourish.
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And as you take these brave steps to set these boundaries for yourself and your
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life, may they help you remember that most important thing of all,
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why you're here.