E050 - Q + A: Creating + Cultivating Boundaries
Channel: Michelle Rogers of the The WELLthy Woman
Date: 2018-07-21

In this episode we answer YOUR questions about creating and cultivating boundaries, both in your life, and in your body! 

We touch on the barriers that protect the gut and the brain, the importance of feeling your feelings to protect your health, and approaches for making these boundaries stick.

Listen up! 

xo
- Dr. Michelle

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

[00:00:49] Denise: Hello, and welcome back! We hope you have been enjoying this months topic on creating and cultivating boundaries. We find that having clear and loving boundaries, grants space for more creative ideas, more satisfying and progressive work, and of course – a healthy and balanced lifestyle. In today’s episode we want to answer a few questions that have come up from the Females in Fine Fettle community on this topic – which we just love to d!  

If you have questions that you would like for us to address on a future episode – send them our way! You can email us at hello@femalesinfinefettle.com Or find us via instagram or facebook.

Alright! So Today we are going to talk a bit more about some special boundaries INSIDE of our bodies – namely the gut! One of my favorite topics.  

We’re also going to talk about the importance of feeling our feelings to support our health….

AND we’ll talk into the challenges of creating and cultivating boundaries – especially when we’re dealing with those that we love, or situations where we feel the need to protect ourselves…that can be a difficult thing to do, and we want to offer a different perspective.

[00:02:11] Michelle: Yes, I also want to mention that today marks our 50th episode, which is SO awesome – we hope you’ve been enjoying the ride.

Back to boundaries… I think the awareness around boundaries and self-care has been booming lately, which I think is a great shift for everyone who is hopping on board. Boundaries are a super effective way to nourish ourselves, restore energy, gain respect with both peers and colleagues, and a way to get to know ourselves and others in a much more intimate way.

And, I also want to say that boundaries isn’t always about saying “no” – it’s actually about creating space for you to say “yes” to the right things.

[00:03:01] Denise: Yes! Danielle LaPorte has a “truth bomb” that I have always loved that says: “Boundaries are fences that support your freedom.” I like to think of having clear boundaries as as a method to crafting our foundation – with a strong foundation you know what you can build on top of it.  Freedom!

This idea ties into the boundaries inside of our bodies. Namely the gut. Our digestive system is so rad. I think of the digestive system as being foundational to systemic health of  the entire body. The gut, separates our insides from the outside world – outside world being the food we put in our bods! And that food then is the information that builds our bodies, our home, if you will. So if we consider leaky gut — or the term intestinal permeability – same thing –  — we are talking about holes in this boundary – in this system – or holes in our foundation. I’m always super curious about the ways that what is happening INSIDE of the body presents itself OUTSIDE of the body (and vice versa). So a leaky gut lining, a cracked foundation, often presents itself as a leaky life.  Leaky life might look like total overwhelm! Swamped with responsibilities and management of the day to day. Or taking in other people’s shit at the expense of dealing with your own. In this overwhelmed emotional state — we feel sensitive to all that’s trying to come in. It’s kind of a, what’s the straw that will break this camel’s back kind of situation. Unfortunately, the straw could be seemingly tiny – and the back break can an illness that takes us out for a while – forcing us to say no.

[00:05:21] Michelle: Yes, that’s a perfect extension of what I was saying before – if we don’t have our boundaries in tact, we almost lose that ability to say “yes” when we really want to.

[00:05:42] Denise: Absolutely. And that overwhelm that we feel outside of our body we experience inside of our bodies via digestive upset, or a headache right at 4pm each day, or suddenly we’re exhausted ALL  THE time — the cracks in the foundation creep in. This is the bodies response to overwhelm from an allergy. You can be seemingly fine, fine, fine, then boom – you’re completely overwhelmed. The immune system gets engaged and we can feel totally run down.  This sensitivity might be to certain foods, to the environment – pollens, grasses, dust, mold, or a unique trigger. Prolonged states of emotional distress. But it’s hard to know which came first … the overwhelm with life outside or our bodies, or the overwhelm within. Often they go hand in hand.

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