Setting and maintain boundaries will help you conserve your emotional energy and can put you in a better mental state. With emotional and physical boundaries, you will develop autonomy and independence maintain your assertiveness about your boundaries will also help bolster your self-esteem.

Boundaries are important for your mental health because it helps you assert what you’re okay and not okay with. Personal boundaries in relationships are necessary because you may feel resentful and exhausted without them. Many have found that setting boundaries improves your mental health and mood. Without limits, its hard to be self-aware and independent.

Six Different Types of Boundaries

Physical Boundaries encompass touch your personal space, and your physical needs. For example, you can create limits about how or when you are touched as well as who you are able to determine who is allowed into your personal space or home.

Emotional Boundaries are not about going from feeling everything to feeling nothing. They’re about finding a middle ground: a space where you can feel and respond loving to other’s emotions without letting those emotions dictate our own realities.

Time Boundaries is based on how a person manage their time. A person must set aside adequate time for each aspect for their life, such as work, relationships, and hobbies, to make set time boundaries. Conversely, time boundaries are breached when someone demands too much of another’s time.

Sexual Boundaries

• How people touch your body-including over or underclothes and your body parts.
• How people see your body-such as being naked, partially naked, or dressed in a sexy way.
• How people treat you in sexual situations-including how they speak to you and what your relationship is.

Intellectual Boundaries refer to thoughts and ideas. Healthy intellectual boundaries include respect for other’s ideas and an awareness of appropriate discussion. They are violated when someone dismisses or belittles another person’s thoughts or ideas.

Material Boundaries refer to money and possessions. Healthy material boundaries involves setting limits on what you will share, and with whom.

Unplug

Some periods of growth are so confusing that you don’t even recognize that growth is happening. You feel depressed with the process of change with anxiety and all negative energy creeping in. On days when surviving and thriving seems like a chore, unplug and take a step back.

Be Thankful

Practice gratitude- Transformation can be painful. Know that you are not falling apart you are falling into something different with a new capacity to be beautiful so be thankful always for every level.

Say Positive Affirmations

The words you speak to yourself live in your heart, in your mind and in your bones. Speak gently, speak kindly, speak as if the words you are saying will find their home within you, because they will, they are, they do.

Sit up Straight

Abundance is realizing that you can always start new, start fresh, start with new dreams, with new words, with new intentions, with new ecstasies, with new victories and with new stories.

Take a Hot Bath

Indulge in hot baths and wash the day off; and oil massage, soft smells and clothes with soft texture are the best combo after taking a hot bath.

Most people like to call it self-care Sunday. I would say everyday should be self-care day. Take at least 10 or 30 minutes out of your day to do a self-care routine. I want people to understand how important it is to take care of yourself when your mental health is declining. I’m still learning how to take a moment to myself when I start to feel mentally exhausted. So, I want to share my go to self-care routines that I use to put myself in a good mood.

Meditation is a good way to relax your mind & to zone out for a minute..releasing any stress and tension that I’m feeling. I always use the Calm app. It comes with great music to use while meditating or help me fall asleep.

Walking, yoga & exercising always gives me energy. Its also good for my mental and physically health.

Going to therapy…I love it! Its a way for me to talk about whats been bothering me,releasing any stress that I’ve been experiencing through out the week. It does help me with my mental and emotional health.

Talking to a friend or hanging out with people is great for social self-care. Being able to get out the house and relax for a little bit. Due to my social anxiety I prefer one on one, two or three of my good friends.

Taking a break from social media… for me its good for my mental health…unplugging from social media for a while is refreshing because I can focus on other important things.

Writing is my way to express myself and good for my mental and emotional health.

Taking time for myself is so important. Having a movie or spa day,shopping,taking a bubble bath,drinking wine while eating chocolate and carbs lol

Listening to my favorite podcast or my favorite playlist throughout the day. Its good for my mental health.

Please don’t forget to always take care of yourself emotionally,mentally and physically.

What are some of your self-care routines?