“We Don’t Need Self-Care, We Need Boundaries” is an article written by Pooja Lakshmin, MD in the October 2018 edition of Op-Med: Voices from the Doximity Network.
A theme I hear over and over again when talking with my colleagues is our lack of boundaries. We say yes to everything and everyone and yet are depleted emotionally and physically by it. I’m going to keep my say in this matter short this week so you have time to read and digest this article.
It hit home for me and reinforced what I have come to believe:
Self-care is not an indulgence! It is sometimes difficult work of learning how to say NO without the accompanying guilt and shame. Setting boundaries for better living is self-care at it’s best!
Please read the article (linked here) and let me know how this idea could be implemented in your life and how it would feel to have better boundaries?