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The Vital Importance of Boundaries
Building and maintaining a healthy life
Growing up in an abusive home, many survivors weren’t allowed to stand up for themselves; sometimes, doing so was dangerous. This lack of autonomy leaves survivors struggling with building and maintaining healthy boundaries.
People who have formed complex post-traumatic stress disorder also have problems with boundaries. It is a part of the symptomology of CPTSD.
This article will focus on boundaries and Evergreen Counseling, an organization owned and operated by Annie Wright, our focal provider.
What the Heck is a Boundary Anyway?
According to Jonathan Wolfrum, LMFT, in a blog post titled The Importance of Forming and Maintaining Good Boundaries that appears on Evergreen Counseling’s blog site, boundaries are defined as “a large and complex set of behaviors and beliefs that allow us to differentiate between our own sense of self and our understanding of others.”
Another way to define a boundary is that it is an invisible space that separates one person from another. The space between might be physical and emotional or recognizing your responsibility to another person and what is not.
Physical boundaries include what you are comfortable with when it comes to personal…
