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How to Set Boundaries at Work That Actually Reduce Stress and Protect Your Time
Practical strategies to manage email, meetings, workload, and expectations without burning out Issue 164, April 24, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Why Knowing Isn’t Enough By now, you probably understand that boundaries matter. But knowing that doesn’t automatically change your behavior. The real challenge is this: following through when it feels uncomfortable.…
How to Go from Overwhelm to Ease by Setting Boundaries at Work
Reclaim your time, reduce stress, and stop over-giving by shifting how you think about responsibility, control, and work-life balance Issue 163, April 17, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ The Lie That Keeps You Overwhelmed Most people who feel overwhelmed at work think the problem is their workload. Too many emails. Too many…
How to Take Control by Setting Digital Boundaries for Peace and Productivity
Issue 162, April 10, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ The Moment Everything Changes Two years ago, I coached a woman on the podcast who was overwhelmed by her living situation. She was doing all the work, her roommates weren’t contributing, and nothing changed despite repeated conversations. When we got off the call,…
How Internal Boundaries Help You Stop Over-giving and Reclaim Your Energy
Issue 161, April 3, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ For most of my life, I thought over-giving was a strength. I was helpful, generous with my time (and sometimes with my money), and reliable. The one people could count on. I thought I was “nice.” And I was all of those things.…
How Internal Boundaries Free You from the Need to Hide
Issue 160, March 27, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ I realized something recently that feels both simple and profound. I don’t feel like I have to hide anymore. For most of my life, I did, but I didn’t even realize that’s what I was doing. It wasn’t in obvious ways. It’s not…
How a Simple Nightly Practice Helps You Stop Abandoning Yourself
Issue 159, March 20, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ There’s a simple practice that has helped me maintain my boundaries more than almost anything else I’ve done. It’s not complicated, doesn’t take long, and you can start doing it tonight. If you’re in 12-step recovery, you’re probably familiar with it: it’s called…
How Internal Boundaries Help You Stop Abandoning Yourself and Live with Integrity
Issue 158, March 13, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Integrity Is an Internal Boundary Years ago, when I first got into recovery, I became fascinated with the word integrity. So I looked it up. I was surprised to see that the dictionary had two different definitions. The first is the one most…
Discipline Equals Freedom: How to Develop the Hidden Skill That Ends Self Abandonment
Issue 157, March 6, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Discipline Equals Freedom, But Not the Way I Used to Think Years ago, I recorded a podcast episode called Discipline Equals Freedom. And I meant it. Back then, I was talking about structure. Food plans. Dating plans. Financial reserves. Time management. Putting systems…
How Emotional Boundaries Keep You from Ruminating and Catastrophizing
Issue 156, February 27, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Emotions, Emotional Boundaries, and the Stories Your Mind Tells I want to start by sharing something that happened a while ago. It showed me that the tendency toward rescuing and fixing doesn’t necessarily disappear just because we’ve done a lot of work. But…
10 Ways for How to Stop Abandoning Yourself When You Set Boundaries
Issue 155, February 20, 2026 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ One of the most difficult parts of setting boundaries isn’t deciding what to say. It’s dealing with what you feel. Sometimes even before you say it. And definitely after you say it. In my experience, the number one thing that stops people from…