This week we look at how boundaries can help resolve many work-related problems, as well as how they can help us to be happier and more fulfilled at the work we do. The fact is that we do get some of our identity from what we do. We are labeled by what we do, or…
A wonderful chapter in Boundaries by Townsend and Cloud this week, on how things could have been and should have been. The reality of it is that each of us has been a child and we have survived. Whether we learned healthy boundaries or not, we survived. Now the result of our adolescent exposure to…
Boundaries are a topic guys can listen to. They are something that deep down we know we need to pay attention to, but the one most important is also the most avoided and most painful to implement. It is rooted in fear, fueled by anxiety and mostly dreaded by all married men, boundaries with their…
Many of us have thought that boundaries were needed only for enemies or those we don’t get along with. But the fact of the matter is that we have boundaries with everybody we interact with. Some are more strict and demonstrated boundaries, others are more laxed and fluid. Nonetheless, we do have boundaries with friends…
Boundaries, ours, theirs, and definition of space. We have heard over the years about “our space”. In life we can visually see this all the time when individuals all adjust and adapt to personal space with others. We have experienced ourselves, all the time, everyday. Even this morning when we arrived. There were strangers, there…
As we come out of this year’s Christmas holiday, it is inevitable that it was different than any other. Whether you made monumental changes in your behavior; noticed the boundary challenges of your relatives and friends; or even failed at protecting your soul, you were more aware of self and others, like no other year.…
Okay, we have learned about the various styles and definitions of boundaries. Last week we even learned about the myths and lies thrown around regarding boundaries. Now this week we attempt to put all that information into action, as we review the Boundaries and our Family. Inside and outside perceptions of boundaries. We can make…
Just like a good counterfeit specialist, we have learned the truth, and that will benefit our ability to see things false. This week we complete chapter 6 of Boundaries by Cloud and Townsend, titled “Common Boundary Myths”. What a powerful chapter title that is. The myths outlined in this chapter seem so fresh and real.…
We finish up the discussion on Boundary Laws with what is thought to be the most significant law, the law of “Exposure”. (pg. 102) The whole concept of boundaries has to do with the fact that we exist in relationship. Therefore, boundaries are really about relationship, and finally about love. That is why the law…
As we return from the holiday to continue our look into Boundaries by Cloud and Townsend, isn’t it appropriate that the subject is activity? Or the lack thereof. We can label it motivation, initiative or the lack thereof as laziness, passivity or debauchery. What ever we want to label it, we are all so aware…