Before delving into the "how to" of setting healthy boundaries, it's essential to recognize their significance in your life. Healthy boundaries help you preserve your mental and emotional well-being: Setting boundaries safeguards your emotional and mental health by preventing unnecessary stress, resentment, and burnout.

Coping with criticism and treating it as an opportunity for insight and growth is not an easy mindset to master, but when we apply strategies that transform the hurtful into the helpful we can catalyse a powerful and positive change in our lives. 

It isn’t straightforward because criticism isn’t straightforward. It’s intent, who it comes from, and how it’s delivered are all going to influence how it impacts us. When we’re given feedback about how we can improve from a person who respects us we’re being given a gift worth accepting. 

The phrase 'balancing work and family' has become a bit of an empty mantra for many of our clients who are struggling to maintain harmony between their professional and personal lives. Who amongst us really feels like work and life are truly “balanced” on any given day?

By striving after that ideal we are often setting ourselves up for disappointment, because life’s demands come in unpredictable spurts and surges.

Getting the balance right means we are neglecting neither work or family needs over time, sometimes over a whole lifetime.

There are some pretty straightforward routes to becoming a better listener. We can teach ourselves by practising a few straight-forward principles we’ll share in this blog.

By becoming a better listener to friends, family, colleagues, even strangers, we can create and strengthen relationships, avoid misunderstandings and therefore minimise conflict and social stress. We can even improve our emotional intelligence.