The Five Steps to Managing Big Emotions

• The first social rule to keep friends is to remember it is never OK to hurt others.

• The second social rule is take five deep breathes and always calm down before making a hard decision.

• The third social rule is to make "I" statements about how "I feel" and "what "I wish" would happen in the future."

• The fourth social rule is to always ask politely for help and use my regular tone of voice to solve all of my problems.

• The fifth social rule is to always take responsibility only for my own thoughts, feelings, words "I say" and actions!

Boundaries are guiding principles that a person creates to identify for themselves as reasonable, safe, appropriate and necessary for everyone's emotional, mental, nutritional, physical, self-efficacy, spiritual, and trustfulness health, and permissible ways that helps to separate oneself from others or show when personal guidelines are violated. This is one’s beliefs, desires, perceived needs, and intuitions; thoughts, feelings, and behaviors indicating a border or limit that is placed on self and others. Everyone should take responsibility for establishing his or her personal boundaries.

Boundaries are invisible until a persons shares them.

Below are two videos that make suggestions on how to successfully set boundaries for yourself and for others during stressful situations.