Speak Your Truth

SPEAK YOUR TRUTH

SET SACRED BOUNDARIES

Clearly communicate what you want, gain respect, and make yourself a priority with authenticity, power, and grace. This is essential voice work. Speaking your truth and setting Sacred Boundaries for yourself and others is the loving means by which to have more agency over your life while allowing others to discover their own.

A boundary is a definite limit where your responsibility ends and someone else’s begins. It frees you from doing for others what they need to do for themselves.

A boundary is a definite place where your tolerance for someone’s behavior toward you ends. It protects you from physical, emotional and mental harm.

A boundary is a clear yes or no to what you allow for yourself. It empowers you to make yourself a priority.

“The only people who get upset about you setting boundaries are the ones who were benefiting from you having none.”
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As women, we are socialized to be nice, not rock the boat, be accommodating, please everyone and put our needs after others…until those behaviors become habitual ways of being. There is nothing wrong with those behaviors when chosen consciously and mindfully, but for most women, the default is unconscious autopilot. This can be particularly true for highly sensitive or empathic people. The energy it takes to constantly have your radar up and feel responsible for accommodating all things is exhausting. It eats away at your self-esteem, builds resentment, undermines your physical health, keeps you from living the life you long for, permits undesirable behaviors in others and even puts your safety in jeopardy.

To deny using your voice, though expedient to get by and survive, is to deny your primary life empowerment tool – your ability to speak up and set Sacred Boundaries so you can live in harmony with your inner truth and embody authentic power.

Your voice matters.

Speaking your truth and setting what I call Sacred Boundaries takes a clear voice, courage, personal insight and a framework to bolster your confidence. This practice is sacred because it is how you honor and embody the voice of your soul – Spirit within. It is how you uphold your human right to be treated with dignity, kindness, and respect. It is how you make your voice heard.

Rest assured, my friend, there is a way to express your needs, limits and expectations with clarity, authenticity, power and grace.

“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.”
Brene Brown

Still here? Your inner voice is coaxing you out of silence, compliance and acquiescence. You feel the pull to undo the unhealthy patterns and risk disapproval to liberate yourself, not only to be respected by others, but more importantly, to be whole within yourself.

Sacred Boundaries are established powerfully, not forcefully, and ultimately are in service of everyone impacted.

Your voice matters. You can do this.

WHAT CLIENTS SAY

“My year working with Dinah was transformational on many levels. As a result of our work together, I now have a much stronger sense of power. I’m speaking up more – which is so liberating - and setting clear boundaries, especially in my personal relationships. My confidence has gotten a real boost and I’ve learned I can trust my instincts to make the right leadership decisions in my organization and family. Dinah was my confidant. She brought such a deep listening – like four layers I hadn’t yet identified - and she skillfully navigated all that. Thank you, Dinah, for supporting me in feeling my own sense of power and for being fearless in bringing up sensitive topics in a way I could receive. My personal and professional leadership have reached new heights and I’m excited for what lies ahead.”

"Thanks for your coaching and conversation template. Your technique of approaching uncomfortable conversations is superb. I was completely comfortable approaching someone with whom I’m having a problem and requesting that we have a conversation. It felt good to be in control; vested more in myself and how I feel about my work - rather than how I feel about how someone else feels about my performance."

“This coaching session was one of the best I have had with anyone. Your intuition and noticing skills that allowed me to reflect more deeply were phenomenal. I have made some fairly significant shifts for me. I am not starting work until 8 a.m. versus 4 a.m. each morning and instead I am spending time on my personal things such as reading, meditating, and other things I enjoy. I am also wrapping up my day much earlier and saying "No" more often when asked to do things for people that are not part of my job or required of me, even though my nature is to want to help and say yes. These seemingly small changes have me back on my exercise routine and being more present each moment of each day.”