How are you coping with so much time at home? Whether you call it lockdown, sheltering in place, or quarantine, just about everyone’s work-life balance has been disrupted. We need to nurture ourselves even more than usual these days. We are all in need of more self-care, gentleness and especially healthy boundaries in relationships!
Your schedule and your life are probably quite different now than they were before COVID.
Many are feeling disruptions like work reconfiguration and job loss, school changes, less socializing, and other uncertainties. These challenges are stressful for almost everyone. Many people are missing an overall sense of structure, boundaries and balance in their everyday lives.
Establishing structure and boundaries in daily life helps increase function and safety. We now need to set new routines and structures that can help ground us to the present moment, allowing us to function in a new way. We’ve lost so many of our familiar routines and therefore, the sense of security they gave us.
And for trauma survivors, just learning the basics of healthy boundaries is especially important.
The pandemic has broken down the boundaries we relied on. The increase in distress can be even greater for trauma survivors. That’s because learning about healthy boundaries in relationships is by itself extra-challenging for trauma survivors. Now COVID has made that even more difficult – dismantling the routines and personal space that took so much effort to carve out initially.
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