Posts tagged boundaries
The Cost of Caregiving: Burnout, Compassion Fatigue & Beyond

Acknowledging that caregiving is hard work isn’t a personal failure, just an honest recognition of reality: you’re being asked to thanklessly show up for others every single day, rain or shine, and go to superhuman lengths each time.

To do this effectively and sustainably for your loved ones, you must start with yourself.

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Reparenting: Self-Care For Your Inner Child

If you lacked safe, nurturing, healthy attachments or experienced neglect, trauma, or unmet needs in childhood— you may be carrying inner child wounds.

The goal is to break old — sometimes generational — trauma patterns, and replace them with consistent acts of compassion and self-care.

To heal, you must take ownership over the process.

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Surviving Summertime SADness & Big June Transitions

Transitions are hard, in part because they ask us to let go of who we were and become a new version of ourselves… "Feeling lost" in this is not a failure, but an uncomfortable and normal developmental milestone.

At the end of summer, who will you become?

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Self-Compassion: Giving Yourself Grace This Thanksgiving

What if the path to getting through this season isn’t muscling past it, but radically embracing kindness and empathy? Can you imagine “giving” in a way that isn’t draining, but nourishing? “Giving” from a place of self-compassion, not self-sacrifice?

If you’re struggling to visualize that, here are some things to consider...

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Authenticity & The Masks We Wear Beyond Halloweentime

Take a moment and reflect on your fundamental right to exist as you are.

Without shame.

Without stigma.

Without masking.

If you’re struggling with this, let’s talk about what masks you’re wearing, why you’re wearing them, and what it would take for you to shed them.

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Transforming Unpatriotic Feelings Into Personal Power

Your emotional experience is your truth, and there’s no “right” or “wrong” way to feel about a national holiday.

You have the power and the right to find community, take actions that align with your values, and live your truth.

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