Lisa.fm Thrive!

Meeting the demands of daily life can be overwhelming. Developing healthy boundaries – physical and energetic - can help you reduce stress and feel more in control. In this podcast, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) Brian D. Mahan explains why it’s hard for many people to set clear boundaries (because most of us didn’t learn how in childhood).   “We weren’t allowed to have those boundaries in our family situation and then we don’t know how to take that…. Into our social lives.” “The more we are able to identify what our energetic boundaries are, what our values are, then the more we are able to……  sit in the strength of our own sense of what’s right and wrong,” said Mahan. Mahan says identifying your core values is key a first step toward establishing healthy boundaries. “It’s important to get in touch with ‘what’s important to us, what’s not important, what we like and what we dislike.” When values are defined, he says, a person can make a decision and take action, or what he calls ‘healthy aggression.