What a boundary actually is
And how yours got set in the first place.
Boundaries Workbook · Word of Mouth
Stay close to the people you love, without losing yourself
If you picked this up, there is probably someone you keep saying yes to when the honest answer is no. Your care was never the problem. What wears you down is care with no edges, given past the point where you have anything left, until resentment starts wearing the face of someone you love. This 30-page guided workbook helps you find the edge again, one page at a time.
$24 $16 · 30 pages · Fillable PDF
30-page fillable PDF
Six guided sections · type or print
What's Inside
What's inside the Boundaries Workbook
Six sections, built to be worked in order, from where your yes goes automatic to the words you actually say out loud.
The resentment cycle
How to catch it while it is still just a feeling in your chest.
Your early tells
A boundary log for watching the pattern in real time.
The beliefs that make yes automatic
Worked through with a notice, question, reframe sequence.
The three parts of a boundary
Plus borrowed words for the hard moments.
When someone pushes back
The small daily practices that hold the line.
A letter to the one who learned to say yes
And a record of the times a limit went fine.
Twelve prompts & a 30-day practice
A journaling and noticing practice for watching the pattern shift.
Who It's For
Who the boundaries workbook is for
For generous people who are quietly running on empty, and who read a room before they read themselves. If your no has gone missing, this was written for you. It is not a workbook about cutting people off or hardening up. Done well, this work does not push people away. It brings you closer, because you stop quietly keeping score.
One honest note: if someone in your life meets your limits with intimidation or control, that is a different situation than these pages address, and it deserves real support. The workbook points you toward it.
This is not a workbook you rush. Most people find one section a sitting is plenty, because the point is not to finish, it is to notice where your yes goes automatic and practice the truer answer a little earlier each time.
Format
How the workbook works
30 pages. Type straight into the fields on your screen, or print it and write by hand. Both work. It is finishable at a page a day, with none of the padding.
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Boundaries Workbook
- 30 pages, fillable PDF
- Six guided sections
- Twelve prompts & a 30-day practice
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A Note on Working With Us
If the work here opens something, our door is open
If the workbook opens something you would like company with, a session at our private Melrose studio pairs coaching, breathwork, and reiki with the same ideas the workbook walks through on paper. Jaime and Yonatan Elkayam are a married team of Certified Usui Reiki Master Teachers, and coaching programs are scoped on a complimentary discovery call. A conversation is a good place to start, and there is no pitch in it.