If you are just learning how to set boundaries in your life, I can’t stress this enough: pay attention to the people who already respect your limits.
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Who listens when you say no? Who honors your word? Who doesn’t make you explain yourself just for existing? They are often the ones who are the safest.
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These are the folks you can practice using your voice with + trying new ways of advocating (because everyone has a learning curve).
If you have a history of trauma, a gentle reminder that this level of intensity in the world can make it easier to move out of your window of tolerance + into dissociation or collapse.
Pls be extra aware of your body + as you’re able find ways to mobilize energy (see below)
For example, it’s always helpful to get grounded in the space you are in using five things you can see, four things you can touch, three things you can hear, two things you can smell, own thing you can touch.
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This type of practice is meant to get us reconnected to ventral vagal/connected to our WOT.
Dear one, as you survey the minefield of your life—you may feel that you no longer belong to yourself. At times you question your reality and whether the one(s) who have harmed you are somehow in the right.
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As days pass, you may find the cold grasp of deceit, harm, + gaslighting seem to clench your heart + hope shut.
At times your anger seethes, but there is nowhere to place it.
And in the still of the night, you wonder if it will ever get better.
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But slowly, reality will come back into frame. Painstakingly, but with great love, you will come to find that though you have disconnected from yourself—you are still there.
And you, you are a miracle. Your very breath is a prayer. Your existence it’s own form of resistance.
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