Boundaries

Some of us learned to scan, anticipate, and serve before we ever learned to want. A Vancouver psychotherapist on the difference between people-pleasing and fawning, the body cost of always being the helper, and what gentle, parts-based therapy can hold when the body wants rest.

Burnout rarely arrives as collapse. It shows up in blurred boundaries, over giving, and quiet depletion. A relational reflection on staying human in caregiving roles, and building care that can actually sustain you.