As professionals, we maintain boundaries. This boundary builds the consensus among all of us on what’s acceptable at work and what’s not.
Among professionals, it’s not hard to understand that there is an emotional boundary. There is an invisible line that divides the responsibilities between us and the people we work with: what is the other person’s responsibility that they must address themselves, and what is our responsibility for our own challenges and processing our own emotions.
When we have learned enough about our emotions, we will understand what a centered state looks like and where our emotional boundary lies.
It turns out that maintaining the emotional boundary is an essential part of holding the professional boundary.
