The Importance of Setting Boundaries

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There will come a time in your life when you start to realize the old ways are no longer working for you.

The old you is dying.

The way you used to go about living. Your routine. Your interactions. Your habits. All of them are just . . . off. And you can’t quite fix one thing without it affecting all the others. Your life is in upheaval, and it seems like everything has got to shift. But you don’t know where to begin.

And what’s even more painful — the old you is dying, and the new you hasn’t been fully formed. So you feel stuck at the end of one way of being that no longer suits you, but the next form hasn’t fully crystallized yet.

It is in this “in-between” space that we learn the most about ourselves.

We are left to dig deep inside and seek the truth of ourselves.

It sounds dark — this is actually a good thing, even though it can feel like our world is falling apart.

Once you start to realize that you can no longer say “yes” to certain things you’ve said yes to in the past, you start to realize just how much you’ve compromised yourself.

And the thing is, people who were used to you having little to no boundaries will start to be taken aback…