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February 10, 2017 by Colleen Mitchell

Why Implementing Strong Boundaries is the Key to Sanity

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Imagine for a moment that you have built a fence around yourself to protect your feelings and sense of sanity.  This fence is sturdy and represents strong boundaries.  This fence is meant to keep people from hurting you, but unfortunately, many people seem to believe that implementing strong boundaries, personal outward-facing stop signs, means that they’re being rude. This could not be further from the truth. 

strong boundaries 2What are Boundaries?

Boundaries, especially strong ones, represent the line that cannot be crossed by other people without consequences.  Depending on circumstances, these consequences might include leaving the immediate vicinity, standing up for yourself without backing down, putting someone on an “information diet,” or informing the boundary-crosser that they have overstepped and you are going to take some time to yourself because of it.  This list is by no means exhaustive.

Living without boundaries can be an acute source of stress. It was for me. Click To Tweet

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January 21, 2017 by Colleen Mitchell

Listen to Your Heart and Be Fearless

Have you ever wondered how to listen to your heart?  How to read yourself so you know what you want to do with your life?  Career aspirations can change all throughout life. As a kid, I wanted to be a veterinarian. This aspiration died with my first dog when I realized that I’d never be able to handle the emotions involved with caring for animals. Shortly afterward, I just knew I wanted to be an author. I wrote heartfelt but terrible fiction, never improving until I took a creative writing elective in high school. Realization dawned that becoming published can be a long and difficult path, and so I transferred the energy of that dream into writing FanFiction.

 But I still hadn’t found out what I really want from life. 

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I moved through career picks in sort of a slow wade: criminologist, psychologist, and then mechanical engineer. I went to college for the last one but never became passionate about it. Then I got a job in it, and it took over a year for me to realize exactly why I felt so bored and uninspired and wrong in that position.

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