These are my personal opinions always secret professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

Welcome to the show. Sometimes it's bittersweet to be here. I'm not talking about me. I'm talking

about the reason you might tune into a show like this is because you might have a question about something going on in your life or a relationship and

Those questions aren't always easy like I talked about in the last episode where it was a tough subject. It was a tough subject to address.

It was about a person who said, I didn't ask to be here and I don't want to live or said something like that.

It's very difficult to talk about.

And then sometimes I'll get questions where I know the answers right away.

I know how to answer that because I've been through it, I've learned about it, I've studied it, I've done it myself many times.

For example, when somebody ever asks me about personal boundaries,

boom, I know that.

I know that pretty well because I started actually

honoring my personal boundaries

a good 15 years ago now and realized how much easier life got when I told people what I will and won't accept.

And life gets easier when you share with people what you will and won't accept for behavior,

for how they treat you, how they show up in your life,

you're just saying, I'm sorry, I won't accept that behavior.

You don't have to say those words, it might come out like,

hey, would you mind not doing that again?

Hey, would you mind being more respectful next time?

It might be a little confrontational when you say it that way, but this is what you learn when you

start doing it, when you start honoring yourself, is that you learn the reactions and responses or non-responses that you get.

I remember the very first time I chose to speak up for myself at work and it went a lot better than I expected. In fact, it led to an eventual

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