I know...its a touchy subject! I completely understand because we didn't have boundaries in my family of orgin and we just talked to each other however we wanted because we were family and that "love" would be the bond that would become unbreakable.
My family of orgin all had different daddies, different livnig conditions, we didn't grow up together and when me and my younger Sister did, we were just surviving and didnt learn how to thrive in life.
I hope my discussion today will give you some encouragement that we all have dysfunctional relational dymanices that try to steal, kill and destroy the love and talents God has put in every single person.
Boundaries in family are the first place we should learn to set boundaries because that is whee we first learned to love first and boundaries protects that love. Allow me to explain.
Lets jump into todays podcast!
Boundaries!
This is something that I have only began to implement into my life the last 5 years. The environment I was in growing up didn't teach me this foundational concept because they didn't have them either. We cannot teach what we don't have within ourselves first.
I had come to a point in my walk with Christ that I was burned out and struggling with what I was responsible for and what my role was. I was worrying about what was happening with others more than what was happening inside of me. For years I had been taught to deny myself and I was doing that in the most extreme and destructive ways to myself.
Boundaries changed that all for me tho!
The book Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud changed my life.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who is seeking to establish who they are in relationship to other people.
Let's define what a boundary is.
A boundary is a combination of what you say yes and no too; it's a combination of the choices you make that shape your life.
It's really self control in action.
This is something that is developed overtime and lots of factors need to be discussed so this can be done with confidence.
Let's jump into the episode so we can get ourselves established from the rest of the world in only a way that YOU can.
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