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How to Set Healthy Boundaries in Relationships After Trauma

 

How are you coping with so much time at home? Whether you call it lockdown, sheltering in place, or quarantine, just about everyone’s work-life balance has been disrupted. We need to nurture ourselves even more than usual these days. We are all in need of more self-care, gentleness and especially healthy boundaries in relationships!

Your schedule and your life are probably quite different now than they were before COVID.

Many are feeling disruptions like work reconfiguration and job loss, school changes, less socializing, and other uncertainties. These challenges are stressful for almost everyone. Many people are missing an overall sense of structure, boundaries and balance in their everyday lives.

Establishing structure and boundaries in daily life helps increase function and safety. We now need to set new routines and structures that can help ground us to the present moment, allowing us to function in a new way. We’ve lost so many of our familiar routines and therefore, the sense of security they gave us.

And for trauma survivors, just learning the basics of healthy boundaries is especially important.

The pandemic has broken down the boundaries we relied on. The increase in distress can be even greater for trauma survivors. That’s because learning about healthy boundaries in relationships is by itself extra-challenging for trauma survivors. Now COVID has made that even more difficult – dismantling the routines and personal space that took so much effort to carve out initially.

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HI Hannah- good to hear from you and good question. Yes, we definitely want you to share your blogs that are relevant to this community (be sure you are a member of the community and are signed into your account so you can post. We are a social network so we WANT folks to post relevant articles, resources, tools to share with others in the community. AND we hope that folks can add reactions, comments questions to the blog posts.  Here in the Practicing Resilience for Self Care and Healing site is the perfect place for you to post your stuff. And we at ACEs Connection can easily share it with other communities and on the main site. 

Here is a link to our How Tos to help you with posting but look for the green Post button and from there it is pretty self-explanatory. And feel free to private message me if you need any help, Hannah!

I have a question. As a member of ACEs can I post my blogs on Aces
connections? I will of course put on the ones that have a meaning for the
community. I write a blog every week, and post it on my website. From time
to time it is a blog that I feel is useful for the community. How do I go
about it? I am an Art Therapist specialized in Trauma and bereavement, and
supervise other therapists.
I Am looking forward to your reply.
Wishing you all a healthy and peaceful 2021
Hannah Sherebrin

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