From the course: Balancing Work and Life as a Work-from-Home Parent
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Setting emotional boundaries
From the course: Balancing Work and Life as a Work-from-Home Parent
Setting emotional boundaries
- As you've learned, logistical and physical boundaries are crucial when structuring your workday. But those boundaries don't mean much if you don't buy in to them emotionally, or if you feel so guilty enacting those boundaries that you stop doing so. And logistical and physical boundaries don't help if family communication is frayed, or if there's a dynamic getting in the way of you enacting those boundaries. Let's think of emotional boundaries as the foundation that you need to put in place in order to enact the physical and logistical boundaries that you've worked on. Let's start with identifying your personal vulnerabilities. Are gender roles a factor in your household, where maybe you leave the computer when you're interrupted because you're mom, but Dad gets to keep working? Without an honest conversation with your partner, these boundaries, anything that you try to enact, are going to be eroded over time. Or…
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Basics of managing the stress response2m 58s
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Time management and goal setting3m 38s
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Balancing structure with unpredictability2m 51s
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Setting logistical boundaries2m 43s
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Setting physical boundaries3m 27s
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Setting emotional boundaries2m 55s
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Practicing self-compassion2m 32s
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Finding meaning in the chaos3m 12s
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