Virtual Saturday Scoop 10.30.21; Setting Healthier Boundaries at Work and in Personal Life
Oct 23, 2021
1 min read
Many of our patients struggle to take care of themselves due to difficulty setting limits both at work, and in their personal lives. How can you start to create better boundaries, freeing up time and energy to devote to your health and happiness needs? Please join Dr. Burnett for a continuation of a discussion and problem-solving session on boundary setting. Hopefully, you will leave this Scoop with some concrete new ideas to try.
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What is Virtual Saturday Scoop?
Live streaming on Saturdays from 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Join us from the comfort of your own home
Each session covers different weight management topics ranging from adequate protein intake, finding your best activity, to coping with emotions, followed by a group discussion
Led by alternating member of our teams (clinical psychologist, exercise physiologist or dietitian)
FREE for active comprehensive program patients, $25/group for others (orig. $35)
Log every favor you say yes to for seven days—duration, day, and what it cost in sleep or meals—then before the next Saturday Scoop, set a rule that anything over 15 minutes waits 24 hours. That extra step keeps a weekly time calculator from becoming another missed intention, especially with rotating night shifts. Some people use a shortlist of best AI tools for parsing calendars to spot the pattern faster.
Dr. Burnett’s 10 a.m. Saturday slot assumes a predictable weekend. Rotating night shifts and the $25/group fee for non-comprehensive patients make live attendance impossible for me. I still block 30 minutes after work, using a weekly time calculator for boundary setting to see where favors swallow the time.
I keep coming back to the point that boundaries aren’t just about saying no; they free up energy for health and happiness. I tried blocking 30 minutes after work for a walk, and it lasted two days before I let a favor take over. Using a simple weekly time calculator helped me see how often that happens. The Saturday group discussion sounds useful for practicing this without judgment.
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I really appreciated the reminder that boundaries aren’t just about saying no at work—they’re just as important in personal time, especially after all these months of blurring lines. Your Scoop always gives me a gentle nudge to step back and rethink my own habits. By the way, I keep a free anime AI image generator I like to share: https://animeaigenerator.net/