This week on Empowered Sobriety, Lindsay and Abby talk about all things Boundaries.
What are boundaries? Who are boundaries really for? How to know when you don’t have strong boundaries and steps to building empowered boundaries in sobriety.
Boundaries certainly can be used to protect you from other’s behaviors but the first steps to setting empowered boundaries starts within ourselves. Without these powerful boundaries within ourselves, we won’t respect others boundaries!
***If you’re not clear on what you want in this life and have a deep inner sense of self, you most likely don’t have clear boundaries AND most likely aren’t respecting boundaries of those around you.
***Abby gives a personal example of how her own protective mechanism of perfectionism was crossing the boundaries of others as she was trying to make them perfect, too.
***Lindsay speaks about how important it is to have a strong sense of self and an inner knowing so you don’t always need to be “fixing”. She also drops some wisdom on us: “How we do anything is how we do everything!”
Steps to setting empowered boundaries while in sobriety include:
*** How to find the highest version of yourself
***The importance of a value’s list and what the heck are values?
***Recognize when you are in old addictive patterning
***How to get back into alignment when you’ve stepped outside your own boundaries
Questions to ask yourself to deepen the boundary work:
***Where does your attention go?
***What behaviors are acceptable from you and towards you?
***How do I want to show up for myself and others?
***What are your needs? Hint: listen to last week’s episode on Inner Child
***What is your energy bandwidth?
***Will this decision get me closer or take me away from my highest version of myself?
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Resources:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1PVSRw3XyX3pAUL8eDCVZY?si=x6KojTetSVGSpTYLeDduzw
