Healing Bonding and Attachment Issues Oct 31, 2022

The process of bonding and attachment is the emotional and spiritual adhering of ourselves to another person. It is a foundational aspect of development. It is where we download and internalize the love that will empower us to grow in the future.

Bonding, connection, and attachment are important...

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Unsafe People, Consequences, and Boundaries Oct 28, 2022

When we feel powerless, we may believe that we have no control over our lives and that we are powerless to change our circumstances. This can lead to learned helplessness. Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a person believes that they are unable to control the events in...

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How to Deal with Narcissists in Your Relationships Oct 26, 2022

What do you do when you’re on the other end of a relationship with a narcissist?

It’s good to know what you’re dealing with.

The first thing that you need to do is to normalize your feelings. You can’t get strategic with your emotions until you label them appropriately....

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Are You in a Controlling Relationship? Oct 24, 2022

Healthy relationships require freedom. Boundaries are set in order to protect the individual thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of each person, so that they can bring their whole selves to the relationship. Boundary-less relationships can experience many types of dysfunction, but one way that a...

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How to Get More Comfortable with Saying No Oct 21, 2022

It is important to be able to say the word no to people in your life, in your relationships, your work, and other areas of life. The ability to say no is a sign of strength and self-respect. It shows that you are willing to stand up for yourself and that you are not a doormat.

If you have a hard...

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Why Rejection Hurts So Much (and what to do with those feelings) Oct 19, 2022

Rejection hurts, and sometimes it really, really hurts? Why is that. Well, for starters, there is a biological and neurochemical reason that the pain of rejection hurts so much. You’re not overreacting. Your brain is working overtime processing these feelings.

If you’ve recently...

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Who Do You Want to Help? Oct 18, 2022

This month marks 5 years since we started Boundaries.Me. We are so grateful for the opportunity that we have had to be of service to our community. We created Boundaries.Me to be instructive, useful, and informative; to add structure, and to help you find healing and avoid unnecessary pain.

We...

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How to Recognize the Signs of Gaslighting Oct 17, 2022

Do you ever feel like someone is causing you to lose your grip on reality? If so, you may be a victim of gaslighting. Gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse in which the abuser tries to make the victim question their own version of events, memory, or perception. This can make the victim...

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Learn to Ask for Help Oct 14, 2022

God places a high premium on the value of asking directly for help. Forms of the word ask appear almost 800 times in the Bible, many of them an invitation from God for us to ask for things: 

“If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.” (Matt. 21:22)

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Do You Have Enough Safe People in Your Life? Oct 10, 2022

Many of us live our entire lives surrounded by barbed wire without any trees to break our fall. We try to pick safe, loving, faithful friends and spouses. And over and over again, we become disappointed and discouraged.

God created us to hunger and thirst for love, because love is our fuel. And...

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Do This: You and I Versus The Problem Oct 07, 2022

One of the most important aspects of your character in life, without question, is one’s ability to confront. It is true that you get what you tolerate. If the nature of reality is that there are always problems, if you do not confront them and instead tolerate them, then problems are what...

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Cut Your Losses and Move On Oct 05, 2022

I was speaking to parents one time about raising kids with successful character. In the Q and A a woman raised her hand and asked, “If you could tell parents what the one thing is that is most important to teach their kids about success, what would it be?”

“I would teach them...

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