For us people pleasers, boundaries can be one of the toughest things to navigate in our lives and relationships, so much so that setting them can feel nearly impossible.
If you’re anything like Ashley and I (Jenna 👋), you’ve likely found yourself speeding down life’s highway watching boundaries fly by so fast that you don’t even realize how many boundaries you’ve passed until the next sign you see reads “Last exit before Burnout.”
Us perfectionists, people pleasers, artists, creatives, and empaths, we’re sensitive souls, and we often tend to gravitate toward service-based work as part of our worthiness seeking.
If you identify as an empath, highly sensitive person, or simply human, chances are you’ve been feeling the weight of the intense collective energy in our world today.
When we learned that one of the definitions of overwhelm is “to drown beneath a large mass,” we didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. All we knew was that the feeling is way too familiar. 😬
There’s a certain B word that you can say in front of kids, nuns, and on TV but makes perfectionists and people pleasers run screaming. What is this panic-inducing B word, you ask?