Why is setting boundaries important for my health?
Setting boundaries is important for health, because it helps you and those around you recognize what you are willing to do - or not! In this Ask the Experts video watch psychotherapist Tiffanie Davis Henry, PhD, discuss setting boundaries.
Transcript
What you're doing is you're teaching everyone around you that it's OK to say yes, and it's also OK to say no.
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Setting boundaries is so important for everyone's health. It's important for you because it's important to know what you can, can't do, what you do
and don't wanna do, and it's important that you honor that. It's even important for your family to see you setting boundaries because what you're doing
is you're teaching everyone around you that it's OK to say yes, and it's also OK to say no. Most folks find it hard to set boundaries,
but I've got one surefire tip for you that will make it a little bit easier for you to set that boundary and really stick with it.
I call it the take five. So what I want you to do, the next time someone asks you something and you don't really know whether you should say yes or say no, take five minutes.
Take five minutes away. Say, hey, hang on for a second. Before I respond, let me take five minutes and look at my calendar. This is gonna give you some buying time where
you can really look at what's going on in your life, what's going on in your schedule, what you already have on your plate, and what you actually have room for.
Literally, take those five minutes before you give an answer. That five minutes of time is going to give you the opportunity to really figure out
if this is something you really wanna do or something you want no parts of so. Take five and you'll be OK.
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