Holding Boundaries (In Life and With Sleep) Can Feel Terrible

If you are making big changes in your life, changes you want to make, you might think that would feel good, liberating.

And maybe it does feel good a lot of the time.

But at least in my experience, it feels like absolute sh*t a lot of the time.

Life coaching has led me to create new boundaries in my life with people I love. And right now, it’s sucking.

No one ever thanks you for creating said boundaries. People want us to stay the same. 

Right now, I’m doing a lot of sitting with pain. Coaching helps me to sit with it. It encourages me to lean in and feel it. Because resisting the pain never works anyway. It’s like pushing a beach ball under water: it just takes a whole lot of energy, and it ends up flying up out of the water anyway.

People make it sound like setting boundaries is easy. You just tell them what your new boundaries.

I’m here to say that setting boundaries is really hard. It’s simple, but not easy. You have to learn to sit with a lot of discomfort, if you’re a people pleaser like me. 

If you want support setting and holding boundaries, set up a complimentary life coaching session (scroll down past sleep coaching). You’ll learn how to endure the short-term discomfort in order to achieve long-term gain, a life that is more authentically yours.