255 // How to Set and Maintain Boundaries

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to episode 255 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, you'll learn how to set and maintain boundaries by implementing the following steps:

Observe your emotions and let them guide you towards the boundaries you need to set
Define and refine your boundaries. Try asking yourself the following questions: What exactly is my boundary? How can I clearly explain my boundary to someone else? How will I know when my boundary has been crossed? Am I willing to be flexible with my boundary? Is there any way I can make this boundary better for myself and others?
Assertively communicate your boundaries
When someone repeatedly or deliberately crosses your boundaries, consider taking action or creating a consequence

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Thank you so much for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Mindful Kind podcast.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at
0:12.0	Rachelcable.com.
0:13.8	Each week, this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress
0:19.2	and live more mindfully in the modern world.
0:24.3	Hello and welcome to episode 255 of the Mindful Kind podcast about how to set and maintain
0:31.3	boundaries and what to do when your boundaries get crossed. On the last episode of the
0:36.3	mindful kind number 247 about healthy boundaries, the last episode of the Mindful Kind, number 247, about healthy boundaries,
0:40.6	I shared some of the different types of boundaries that can be really important for
0:44.7	protecting your well-being, including physical boundaries, time boundaries, material boundaries,
0:51.2	and emotional boundaries. If you haven't listened to that episode yet,
0:55.7	I highly recommend you check it out first and then come back to this one because I'll be referring
1:00.6	to some of the types of boundaries and it's important that you know what they are. Okay, let's take a
1:06.5	look at four steps to setting and maintaining boundaries. The first step is to really start observing
1:13.4	your emotions so you can figure out your needs and what kind of boundaries you could set. Your
1:19.2	emotions can be really helpful signals during this process, especially when those emotions are
1:24.5	challenging or strong. If you notice yourself feeling angry at someone or
1:29.2	about something, get curious about why that anger occurred. For example, a few weeks ago, I was
1:36.3	feeling angry with myself because I left recording one of these podcast episodes to the last
1:40.9	minute and it started raining, which creates all this background noise because of
1:45.6	the tin roof so I had to try to record when the rain slowed down and it ended up turning a 30
1:52.0	minute task into one that spanned over several hours I was irritated because I had lots of things
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