You don’t need to feel that you owe anyone anything more than you want to give with your free and conscious heart.

Get to know yourself as best you can. Become familiar and comfortable with your own beliefs, emotions, feelings, and ideas.

It’s a waste of your time and energy to try to fix other people because they’re not interested in becoming any other way than they are.

• Preying upon your sense of self and self-esteem
• Using what you’ve told them in confidence against you
• Lying to you
• Criticizing you
• Manipulating you
• Mocking you
• Making demands of your time
• Bullying you
• Lording a superior attitude...

Understand that your boundaries are different from others.

• Not allowing you to speak or be heard.
• Yelling at you.
• Saying things that are derogatory about your integrity and character.
• Gossiping about you.

When you respect yourself, you should expect that others will treat you with respect. If they don’t, that’s a clear sign not to engage.

Develop the capacity to know what needs to be done for yourself.

• Moving into your personal space
• Touching you without permission
• Being inappropriate or too familiar towards you
• Violating your privacy
• Damaging or destroying your personal property
• Threatening you with physical harm