About four years ago, I was barely keeping my head above water. I was running a home. I was running a charity, I was running this business – Assembly, I had a two year old and a 6 year old and a marriage and other responsibilities to manage and I was right in the deep end. I needed to make some changes. Not only did I need to get some help medically, I knew I needed to work out a better, easier way of doing things that didn’t involve me sacrificing my mental and physical health.

So. I want to share some of that learning and how implementing and updating boundaries have been so key to moving towards health for me.

I think the key thing here is getting to the baseline of why we are so frazzled and torn and I have a few ideas about why this is so and why women in particular are grappling with this desire for balance and boundaries so much more than men and why it is distracting us from the amazing work that we should be doing in the world. This is Part 1 of 2 and I'll be laying out why I believe boundaries are critical and freeing and what might be in the way of us setting them.