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

By setting your own boundaries, you are setting your limits about who can come into your space and what you expect of others once they’re there.

• 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

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

If anyone invades your boundaries, be ready to walk away without fear or guilt.

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.

Understand that your boundaries are different from others.

You can learn to be emotionally attached to others while remaining psychologically and intellectually detached. This kind of space allows for personal expression while minimizing emotional and psychological entanglement.

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

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

• 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...