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Embracing Boundaries with Family: A Meaningful Reflection for Easter


FAMILY

Embracing Intentional Curiosity: A Journey Back to Wonder


Personal Growth

Why Setting Boundaries with Family is So Hard

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Dawn McKelvie Cyr Dawn McKelvie Cyr

The Quiet Ways Self-Worth Is Eroded

Self-worth doesn’t vanish in a moment. It’s eroded through overlooked dismissals, quiet betrayals, and the slow abandonment of your own voice. This post traces the invisible unravelling that happens when we trade truth for peace, and how, even after long forgetting, the path home to ourselves is never fully lost.

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Family, Work, Relationship, Romance, Self, Boundaries Dawn McKelvie Cyr Family, Work, Relationship, Romance, Self, Boundaries Dawn McKelvie Cyr

Embracing Boundaries with Family: A Meaningful Reflection for Easter

Easter is a special season—a time often marked by warmth, joy, and treasured family traditions. Yet, it can also be a time that stirs complex emotions, highlighting pressures and emotional tensions beneath the surface of even the closest relationships.

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Dawn McKelvie Cyr Dawn McKelvie Cyr

Why Setting Boundaries With Family Is So Hard

This post explores the emotional weight of family roles — the caretaker, the peacekeeper, the achiever — and how we silently inherit these identities in order to belong. It guides you toward naming these patterns and beginning the work of stepping out of them. Boundary-setting, it reminds us, isn’t disconnection — it’s the beginning of becoming whole.

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Dawn McKelvie Cyr Dawn McKelvie Cyr

Boundaries, Grief, And A Deeper Kind Of Love

In the quiet space between rupture and return,
this post traces the last chapter of a complicated bond.
It’s a story of love, grief, and the kind of boundary that frees you-
just in time to say goodbye.

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