Boundary Basics
Limits protecting emotional, physical, relational, and recovery well-being are these.
What are healthy boundaries?
TEACHING POINT Boundaries are limits and expectations governing personal behavior, access, responsibility, and treatment.
Boundaries protect time for treatment, sleep, and this.
What is self-care?
TEACHING POINT: Boundaries protect resources, reduce relapse exposure and stress, strengthen identity, and clarify support versus rescuing.
Space, touch, privacy, and possessions are this type.
What are physical boundaries?
TEACHING POINT: Boundaries may be physical, emotional, time, communication, recovery, digital, or financial.
Keeping everyone distant and refusing help may reflect these.
What are rigid boundaries?
TEACHING POINT Healthy flexible boundaries allow connection while protecting safety and individual responsibility.
'You cannot drink' attempts this.
What is control?
TEACHING POINT A boundary states one's own response; control attempts to force another person's behavior.
Boundaries clarify what a person is willing to do this in.
What is participation?
TEACHING POINT: Boundaries are limits and expectations governing personal behavior, access, responsibility, and treatment.
They reduce exposure to high-risk people, places, and things.
What are substances or situations?
TEACHING POINT: Boundaries protect resources, reduce relapse exposure and stress, strengthen identity, and clarify support versus rescuing.
Responsibility for feelings belongs to this type.
What are emotional boundaries?
TEACHING POINT: Boundaries may be physical, emotional, time, communication, recovery, digital, or financial.
People-pleasing and tolerating disrespect may reflect these.
What are porous boundaries?
TEACHING POINT Healthy flexible boundaries allow connection while protecting safety and individual responsibility.
'I will leave where drugs are used' states this.
What is a boundary?
TEACHING POINT A boundary states one's own response; control attempts to force another person's behavior.
They identify how a person expects to be this.
What is treated?
TEACHING POINT Boundaries are limits and expectations governing personal behavior, access, responsibility, and treatment.
They reduce resentment, overwhelm, and repeated this.
What is interpersonal stress?
TEACHING POINT: Boundaries protect resources, reduce relapse exposure and stress, strengthen identity, and clarify support versus rescuing.
Protecting treatment and rest uses this type.
What are time boundaries?
TEACHING POINT: Boundaries may be physical, emotional, time, communication, recovery, digital, or financial.
Connection plus safety and responsibility, describe these.
What are healthy boundaries?
TEACHING POINT: Healthy, flexible boundaries allow connection while protecting safety and individual responsibility.
A person cannot guarantee another adult's this.
What is behavior?
TEACHING POINT A boundary states one's own response; control attempts to force another person's behavior.
A boundary includes the action taken when this occurs.
What is a limit that is crossed?
TEACHING POINT: Boundaries are limits and expectations governing personal behavior, access, responsibility, and treatment.
Clear limits strengthen self-respect and this.
What is recovery identity?
TEACHING POINT Boundaries protect resources, reduce relapse exposure and stress, strengthen identity, and clarify support versus rescuing.
Limits on yelling, threats, and calls are this type.
What are communication boundaries?
TEACHING POINT: Boundaries may be physical, emotional, time, communication, recovery, digital, or financial.
Boundary needs vary by trust, relationship, situation, and this.
What is recovery risk?
TEACHING POINT Healthy flexible boundaries allow connection while protecting safety and individual responsibility.
A boundary must focus on what this person will do.
What is I or the speaker?
TEACHING POINT: A boundary states one's own response; control attempts to force another person's behavior.
Boundaries govern one's own behavior and this.
What is access?
TEACHING POINT Boundaries are limits and expectations governing personal behavior, access, responsibility, and treatment.
Boundaries separate support from rescuing, enabling and this
What is control?
TEACHING POINT: Boundaries protect resources, reduce relapse exposure and stress, strengthen identity, and clarify support versus rescuing.
Phone access and social media are this type.
What are digital boundaries?
TEACHING POINT: Boundaries may be physical, emotional, time, communication, recovery, digital, or financial.
Healthy boundaries are flexible rather than these two extremes.
What are rigid or porous?
TEACHING POINT Healthy flexible boundaries allow connection while protecting safety and individual responsibility.
Response choice remains available even when others do not this.
What is cooperate?
TEACHING POINT A boundary states one's own response; control attempts to force another person's behavior.