Ep 3: Protecting Your Peace: The Power of Boundaries
Welcome to Episode 3 of The Rise Room! This conversation is all about boundaries, and not the harsh, cut-everyone-off kind, but the soft, strong kind that help you come home to yourself. If you've ever felt emotionally drained, constantly available to everyone but yourself, or afraid to say "no" because you didn’t want to disappoint, this episode is for you.
Most of us weren’t taught how to set boundaries we were taught how to endure. In this episode, we explore why boundaries are essential to mental health, how to set them without guilt, and why protecting your peace is a radical act of self-respect.
Episode Highlights
🔑 Most of us weren’t taught boundaries, we were taught endurance, silence, and self-abandonment.
🔑 Protecting your peace might upset people who were benefitting from you having none.
🔑 Setting boundaries is not rejection, it’s redirection. It says, “Here’s how to love me better.”
🔑 According to the APA, 68% of adults feel emotionally exhausted from struggling to say no.
🔑 Real-life scripts for setting healthy, loving, non-apologetic boundaries.
🔑 Boundaries are not walls, they’re bridges. The right people will walk across.
🔑 Rise Challenge: Set one boundary this week, clearly, calmly, and unapologetically.
Quote Highlight
“Think of boundaries like a user manual for you. If you don’t write it, people will guess, and they’ll get it wrong.”
Your Rise Challenge This Week 💡
Choose one person in your life who consistently drains your energy and set one clear boundary with them.
Say it calmly. Text it if you need to. But say it.
Don’t explain it away. Don’t apologize.
Let it be clear, kind, and true.
Tag me @TheRiseRoom or send a DM, I’d love to hear how you’re rising with your boundaries this week.
Resources Section
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✨ Step in. Rise up. Protect your peace.
References
American Psychological Association, “Boundaries and Emotional Exhaustion Survey,” 2020
Journal of Mental Health, “Emotional Boundaries and Anxiety/Burnout,” 2019
Mental Health America, Global Survey on Boundaries and Conflict Avoidance, 2021
Gitnux & Wifitalents, Mental Health and Boundary Setting Data, 2022–2023