Setting healthy boundaries in friendships can help you protect your identity and personal space. It can also prevent others from taking advantage of you or limiting what you want to do.

Being there for your friends is incredibly important, but not when it comes at the expense of your own mental health. Here’s how to establish some boundaries if you’re struggling right now.

How reformed people-pleaser and journalist Tamsen Fadal found the beauty in saying no and carving out space for herself ...

Boundaries Are Emotional Skin Think about ... It fails to communicate the underlying need for reliability and respect in the friendship. A path to deeper connection and compassionate boundary ...

But in the first episode of Best Friend Therapy, released on 28 March, hosts Elizabeth Day and Emma Reed Turrell muse: “Boundaries are actually a point of connection.” And as best friends of ...

“In a healthy friendship, all parties feel comfortable expressing their thoughts, feelings, and boundaries without fear of judgment or rejection,” says neuropsychologist Sanam Hafeez, PsyD.

In the years since, both my father and my brother have told many mutual friends and relatives about our rift, but have told different versions to different people, none of which are true.