Serving Clients Across Canada | Virtual Clinic | Vancouver HQ
Serving Clients Across Canada
Virtual Clinic | Vancouver HQ
Serving Clients Across Canada | Virtual Clinic | Vancouver HQ
Serving Clients Across Canada
Virtual Clinic | Vancouver HQ
Do you often find yourself feeling overwhelmed or taken advantage of, with no boundaries in your relationship, personally or professionally? Are you constantly saying “yes” to others, even when it means sacrificing your own needs and desires? If so, you’re not alone.
Many people struggle with setting and enforcing healthy boundaries. As a result, they find themselves feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, and exhausted in their relationships. The truth is, these are essential to maintaining healthy relationships and living a meaningful life. When used effectively, they act as a tool for your own wellbeing, not as a means to control others (even though some people in your life may feel that way).
Here are four types of boundaries to consider for a healthy relationship: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
1. Physical Boundaries
These are important for a healthy relationship and relate to your physical space, your body, and even your possessions. Having physical boundaries in a relationship allows you to feel safe within your environment. You decide who enters your space, how you spend your time, and your limits around sexual activity. If it hasn’t felt this way, you can explore physical boundaries to build a more secure relationship.
2. Mental Boundaries
These can include the content you consume, topics of conversation, and what you share with others. Managing boundaries around what you expose yourself to can support healthy relationships. This includes loved ones and even acquaintances around you. It also includes social media intake, controversial topics with others, and what you share online.
These may be one of the most important types of boundaries for a healthy relationship. This is about your feelings and how you express them, as well as your responsibility for others’ feelings. Maintaining a sense of emotional responsibility for yourself, allowing yourself to feel your feelings and then separating yourself from the responsibility of others’ feelings helps to set the pace for relationships.
These involve your beliefs, values, and purpose in life. Healthy boundaries in this realm means that you define your own sense of meaning and purpose in life and stand up for what you believe in. This can involve deciding on your own religious or spiritual practices or standing up for yourself when your beliefs and values differ from those around you. Having disagreement about this and living your truth, can sometimes feel like you’re disconnecting from your relationships but in reality it can set a strong precedence for a healthy relationship in the long run.
Consider how therapy can help improve your relationship today, and check out our virtual therapists who are experts in this area!
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