Thinking Errors
Paying attention to the bad things and ignoring when
something good happens
Ignoring the good or Discounting the positive
A communication skill that allows you to stand up for your own needs and wants making eye contact, clearly stating needs and wants as well as having confident body language.
Assertive Communication
Dressing up, getting a haircut and preparing healthy meals
Hygiene/Self-Care
A person who displays this type of boundary often avoids intimate/close relationships, very protective of personal information and keeps others at a distance to avoid the possibility of rejection
Rigid Boundaries
Thinking you know what will happen in the future and that it will be bad
Fortune telling
A friend asks you to borrow your laptop and you say:
Why would I let you borrow my car, that's stupid.
What type of communication is this?
Aggressive Communication
Go for a walk, ride a bike, weight lift
Exercise
A person who has this type of boundary overshares personal information, Has difficulties saying no to the requests of others and can become overinvolved in the problems of others
Porous Boundaries
Believing you know what someone else is thinking or why they are doing something without having enough information.
Mind Reading
Allowing others to take advantage of you
Passive Communication
Call or text a friend, call a counselor
Socialize or Communicate
A person with this type of Boundary values their own opinions, shares personal information appropriately and accepts when others say no to them.
Healthy Boundaries
Believing things should be in a certain way
Should statements
Expressing your needs without respecting the feelings of others.
Aggressive Communication
Identifying what you can hear, see, taste and touch
54321 Technique or Grounding
How many personal boundaries are their?
Blaming yourself for anything that goes wrong around you, even if you had nothing to do with it.
Self-Blaming
What type of statement is this?
I feel ____ when you ________
"I" statement
Writing down your thoughts and feelings to understand them more clearly.
Journaling
Name the 6 types of Personal Boundaries
Physical Boundaries
Intellectual Boundaries
Emotional Boundaries
Sexual Boundaries
Material Boundaries
Time Boundaries