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.

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.