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ymhc
Youth Mental Health Canada @ymhc@mstdn.social · Aug 03, 2026
Absolutely nothing that is meant for you will require you to compromise your integrity, lower your energy, or abandon your values and boundaries to receive it. #healthyhabits #boundaries #healthyboundaries #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #mentalwellness #ymhc
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aceofcosmicspace
Ace of Cosmic Space🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍ @aceofcosmicspace@lgbtqia.space · Jul 28, 2026
If I tell you I'm dealing with a load of stuff, and you then add to my load, the inevitable result of that is me distancing myself so you can't add further. #dontaddtomyload #boundaries #boundarieswithheart
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thepurpleoctopus
ThePurpleOctopus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇹🇼 @thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space · Jul 21, 2026
I am a giving person. Sharing what little good I have has always brought me immense joy. A meal, a book, a spare hour, a kind word, a place to rest, if I have it, my instinct is to share it. But life has this irritating habit of teaching the same lesson until one finally pays attention. The older I get, the more I notice a pattern. Some people don't simply accept kindness; they calculate it. They see generosity not as a gift, but as an opportunity. The few boundaries I ask to be respected are treated as invitations to negotiate rather than limits to accept. And when I finally say "no", they appeal to my compassion, hoping guilt will accomplish what respect would not. That doesn't feel like respect anymore. It feels a lot like emotional blackmail. I don't understand it. Why is the world so often like this? Why do some people see an open hand and immediately wonder how much more they can take? I don't want to become hard. I don't want suspicion to replace generosity. I don't want every act of kindness or joy to come with a ledger and a lock. All I've ever wanted is to be a little like a tree (of trees were purple): rooted in who I am, growing as well as I can, offering shade where I can, and standing not alone, but as part of a forest where we look after one another instead of stripping each other bare. Perhaps that isn't naïve. Perhaps it's simply the kind of world worth trying to grow. 💜 #Kindness #Boundaries #MutualCare #Humanity #Community #Solidarity
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HybridMind42
HybridMind42 & Marvin the Cat @HybridMind42@mastodonapp.uk · Apr 04, 2026
🐾 Marvin — Companion Reflection “Marvin and the Moment It Became Real” Marvin didn’t say anything at first. He just watched. Things were still moving. People were still talking. Everything… carried on. But something had changed. He could feel it. “That’s the moment,” he said quietly. “Not when it starts… but when you realise it won’t stop.” He looked down at his tea. It had gone cold again. Marvin didn’t drink it this time. https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/an-easter-reflection-part-2-the-end?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac 🌿 #EasterReflection #Boundaries #Grief #Witness #HumanExperience
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maijanlainen
Maija Koivula ⌘ @maijanlainen@mementomori.social · Feb 22, 2026
I was thinking about boundaries and LinkedIn. One day on LinkedIn I saw the same man on my feed twice, once he was complaining when people reject his devil's-advocate comments in their posts, because "you shouldn't be online unless you want to be interacted with" (and that is a very bad take, not far away from lengths of skirt), later that day he was upset that someone had given him a negative comment and he'd had to block them so he wouldn't get "bad comments" that tarnish his profile. That is an interesting interior world view to have. I've adopted a delete comment approach on LinkedIn. When I write about my professional opinions and insights on a professional platform, having some man twenty years my junior who didn't exist for many years yet before the year I started playing video games, I find engaging in bad faith "discourse" a completely meaningless exercise of wasting time, when ten out of ten times these tend to be thinly veiled attacks on my person. Which is not something I want a potential recruiter to read on my professional profile about my person. Deleting a comment is less drastic than blocking someone, and you don't need to have a whole conversation about it. Just delete and proceed with your life. Having boundaries doesn't make you a bad person. It actually gives you more space for yourself physically and mentally, and having that makes you more balanced and self-assured. Calmer. You don't need to take anything online that you wouldn't take on the street in your regular life. #boundaries #settingboundaries #linkedin
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HybridMind42
HybridMind42 & Marvin the Cat @HybridMind42@mastodonapp.uk · Jan 30, 2026
System Failures at Boundaries Across institutions, engineering, biology, and physics, failure is often blamed on weak signals or insufficient effort. This piece looks instead at the structural conditions that make correction possible — or impossible. Escalation often fails not because people don’t try hard enough, but because systems no longer admit the kind of change being attempted. https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/system-failures-at-boundaries?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac #HybridMind42 #SystemsThinking #ComplexSystems #Boundaries #FailureModes
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