Setting Boundaries Looks Like This... ✨

Don't be scared to protect your energy

I know I can’t be alone in feeling like ‘setting boundaries’ is a relatively new concept—and by that, I don’t mean that it hasn’t been around until now, but that I think it’s a concept we seem to stumble upon at a certain point in our lives.

From the conversations I’ve been having with others, it seems as though it usually manifests in our mid-to-late twenties, when our tolerance for bullsh*t has been truly tried and tested and we have enough life experience to know when we aren’t in alignment with our values and needs.

I feel as though once our brains are fully developed, we start to gain more of a well-rounded perspective on what is keeping us stuck, feeling unsafe and what we’re willing to tolerate from the people we choose to have in our lives.

(Yes, because we get to choose who we have in our lives and who we let go of.)

Between the ages of 18 and 29 (my age now) my social circle has shrunk dramatically—and I think that’s purely because when you’re younger, your limits are undefined and it usually takes a bigger incident for you to cut ties or distance yourself from someone.