When life is busy, you're jumping from one situation to solve or manage to the next.

You are switching focus quickly between the needs at home, needs of work, the needs of the important people in your life, even the needs and demands of your social life and family (parents, siblings, relatives).

It can get overwhelming ... you become overloaded, with no time to breathe.

Now everyone and everything is real close.

If you just had the space. You could breathe and think more clearly.

This is how the Boundaries 101 course came into being.

Boundaries 101 teaches you how to:

• conceptualise your space and set a boundary around it
• guard your personal space as precious, because you deserve to claim it
• use your personal space as your mind and body's space to unwind in
• turn your personal space into your personal buffer protection zone
• keep unwanted situations, people, emotion at bay
• help you take more effective action

Boundaries 101 is 8-week LIVE group course, 1 hour per week with Ally, Pain Relief Lady. Followed by a real-life exercise, tool, or strategy to practice for that week. The sessions are recorded. Below is the course outline.

1. BOUNDARIES DEFINED. Boundaries: What they are, and How to set them. Understand your boundary's location in space.

2. BOUNDARY RULES. What are the boundary rules? Who is allowed in? When are they allowed in? Who is NOT allowed in? The Boundary ‘RULES’ discusses boundaries and hugging and other physical affection, workplace setup, common face-to-face contact scenarios.

3. FINDING ‘YOU’. Valuing Self. Boundaries are for your protection – physical, emotion, mental. Boundaries also protect your interests. Boundaries create FAIR work share, FAIR distribution of resources, FAIR consideration of you and your needs. Boundaries are the first step to getting what you want in life, what you want from your relationships, and to feel fulfilled not drained.

4. HEALTHY BOUNDARIES. Signs of a HEALTHY Boundary. Signs of Boundary TRESPASS. When is it okay to bend the Boundary Rules?

5. BOUNDARIES WITHOUT FEAR. How to Stop Fearing People’s Reaction to your Boundary. Let’s practice ways to diffuse other’s anger (or your fear of an angry reaction). We will practise ways that assert your boundary without you feeling demanding.

6. BOUNDARY BREAKERS. Should you forgive a boundary breaker? Questions about boundary use. Challenges. Successes. Changes and shifts in dynamic between you and another person. How to get someone out who pushed in. Help when you let the wrong person in!

7. BOUNDARIES WITH INTIMATES. Boundaries with an Intimate Partner, or your Children – how it is different? Do boundaries with intimate contacts have different Boundary RULES? Differences between boundaries with your spouse / partner, your children, close family, and best friends.

8. BOUNDARY STRENGTH. Boundary Strength, and Boundary Limitations. How well will the best boundary hold up in a toxic environment, or in the company of toxic people.

At the end of Boundaries 101 you will:

• have the tools to protect yourself from the highs and lows of others
• feel energised
• be visible, be heard
• identify toxic connections and be active in minimising or removing them!

This course is open to men and women, who have noticed that they:

• often feel drained by the company of others
• suffer health complaints that have no medical origin
• want to be closer with others in their personal life without negative effects
• want greater success separating work stress from general life

WHEN ONLINE. Starting Sat 9 October @ 1.30pm to 2.30pm (AWST). Finishes Sat 27 November. Location is ONLINE so from the comfort of your home, or while waiting for kids to finish activities, or sitting in a park.

COST. $297 (equates to $37 per week). SPECIAL 2 for 1 PRICE . Grab you and a friend or family member for the same price. Code: FRIENDFREE