Today is MONKEYS DAY, where I'm returning to the rabbit hole to discuss the third (& final) piece in my current series, "Mindset, Motivation & Monkeys."

So now you have your mindset (or at least know what you would like it to be; goals are a first step), you have picked your guidance word of the year, and you have discovered your motivation. So what now?

In this episode, I discuss MONKEYS! Ok, as you may have guessed, not actual monkeys (flying or otherwise) but rather boundaries! (aka - 'not my circus, not my monkeys')

Setting boundaries after loss is much more complicated than before, like everything, right? But for many of us, there are hurdles we can't overcome after the mindset and motivation part, and then we end up feeling stuck. Today, I discuss this at length to give you some actionable ideas that may help.

In this episode, hear me discuss: 

• the myth that boundaries are there to stop us
• The next step - how to start
• Recognizing your monkeys - name them
• Defining them
• Enforcing them 
• Real grief examples and more...

In the end, we are truly only limited by what we believe, and we have a choice in what we think and choose to believe.  Our possibilities for life 'after' loss are only limited by our own mind. Yep, there's a LOT in those two sentences. Read them again. (And I know it's extraordinarily hard, but we can do hard things!)

Some BONUS follow Up READING - just food for thought & for fun:
A Person Without Boundaries ... (a post from The Daily Stoic)
Setting Healthy Grief Boundaries (an easy read about a difficult thing!)

THANK YOU for listening to this episode. It means so much to me! 

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