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Boundaries: Exploring & Setting Boundaries to Reduce Your Stress & Increase Your Confidence
January 21, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
$30We often wonder how to improve our “work-life balance”. One reason it’s so hard to answer this, is that it’s the wrong question. Balance implies equal time or a consistent, static state. Our lives are far too complex and changeable to be able to find one right answer on how to honor all of our commitments.
In this interactive workshop you will have the chance to explore the ways Boundaries show up in your own life. You will walk away with a deeper understanding of how to set limits on your time that are aligned with your values and what matters most to you. You will be able to identify ways to lead your life so that you can meet all the important commitments first—and do so while being free of the guilt and uncertainty when you say “No” to the expectations.
One reason setting Boundaries is so hard is that we often worry what would happen if we said “No”. We may worry that we won’t get the promotion if we don’t stay late every night. Or you might have a friend who takes up too much of your time, but you don’t want to feel like a bad friend if you say “No” to her requests.
In this workshop, you will have the chance to identify the boundaries in your life that are most challenging for you. Is it saying “No”? Is it making time for self-care? Is it letting go of the guilt for arranging a girls’ night out once in a while? Or is it getting creative on finding a way to say “Yes” to projects and goals you’ve been too busy to achieve?
You will learn from stories of women who identified what was most important to them, and trusted those beliefs. When these brave women identified their values around a situation, their ability to know what the right thing to do became obvious, and they never looked back.
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