The big lesson from 2019

Happy new year, everyone!

So this year was kind of a big one for me. It didn’t start off all that well, but wow, did it pick up (with a bump along the way). There was one lesson that really was driven home for me, though. It’s the importance of maintaining boundaries.

Enforcing boundaries led to fights. It led to the ending of friendships. But it also led to me being healthier and ultimately happier. So as challenging as the experiences might have been at the time, I’m happy I was able to go through them and emerge stronger on the other side. It’s a journey I hope I’ll be able to continue on in 2020. For someone who never really knew what boundaries was, much less how to enforce them, it’s quite a liberating feeling to know that it’s okay to say no, to reject treatment that makes me feel awful, and to … well, not take on the world’s problems.

I’ll expand on this in a post in January, but for now, suffice it to say, I am in a healthier and stronger position emotionally than I was this time last year. And I’m not looking back.

All the best in 2020!