1226: 3 boundaries I'm Putting In Place Before My Kids Start School
Emotionally Uncomfortable
Hosted by Heather Chauvin | Insights inspired by Mel Robbins, Bréne Brown, Danielle Laporte, Elizab
4.6 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
If you're feeling the urge to hit the reset button as your family transitions into fall, this episode is for you. Heather is pulling back the curtain on how she's personally re-evaluating her time, energy, and money boundaries and how you can do the same without guilt, shame, or overwhelm.
This isn't about setting rigid rules or reinventing your whole life from scratch. It's about refinement, alignment, and real emotional accountability so you can start this season feeling clear and in control.
In this episode, Heather walks you through how to:
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Audit what's actually working (and not working) in your time, energy, and money habits
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Distinguish between resistance and misalignment so you stop procrastinating and start taking action
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Create micro-boundaries that build identity-level change no, "start Monday" energy required
If you're ready to get back in the driver's seat of your life and move into the new season with clarity and confidence, this one's a must-listen. Heather also shares powerful journaling prompts, mindset shifts, and the exact coaching frameworks she uses with clients to create real transformation.
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| 0:00.0 | We are here and today I am doing a solo episode and I wanted to kind of go over. |
| 0:08.0 | I kind of wanted you to get a behind the scenes look at how my brain thinks when transitioning |
| 0:14.7 | into new seasons. |
| 0:17.5 | So the boys are headed back to school, you know, fall, new transition. And so there's three |
| 0:26.9 | main boundaries that I am implementing before my kids start school so that we can create capacity and also get back in alignment. So oftentimes when people talk about, |
| 0:43.8 | you know, back to school resets and fall reset, summer resets, summer, whatever it is, new season, |
| 0:50.7 | new reset, right? We talked about this 90 days ago where it was like summer energy. |
| 0:56.1 | And I always find that there's two types of people. |
| 1:00.0 | There's the type of person that goes into a season with intention. |
| 1:05.1 | And then there's the type of person like intention and implementation. |
| 1:09.3 | And then there's the type of person that kind of gives themselves |
| 1:13.1 | permission to to take themselves off the hook. And by the end of the season, there's a lot of |
| 1:19.8 | shame, guilt, and disappointment that they told themselves the story that I don't need to do XYZ like, oh, it's summer, we're just |
| 1:30.3 | going to go with the flow or we're going to like just be completely chillax and I'm not going to |
| 1:35.0 | focus on any intention. I'm not even going to call them habits, any intention. And by the end of that, |
| 1:43.3 | you feel angry, resentful, burnt out. One thing that I noticed |
| 1:48.0 | this season, this last season is, although I was very present for summer and enjoyed summer |
| 1:57.0 | and we did it on our own terms, I often don't live the way that mainstream people live. |
| 2:04.0 | So I don't really buy into hustle culture in the sense of like go, go, go, go, do, do, |
| 2:10.3 | do all the time and feeling burnt out. We're pretty chill. So we like to do a lot of staycations. |
| 2:17.2 | We don't like to go far from home where we live in the summer. to do a lot of staycations. We don't like to go far from home where we |
| 2:19.4 | live in the summer. It's actually beautiful weather. And that's like the best time a year to be here. So why do we |
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