Why We Need Space & Boundaries
- Laura Haehl
- Dec 18, 2025
- 2 min read
This One Card Shy podcast episode started with freedom and somehow led us straight into boundaries. The kind that come up when your heart feels full, tired, open, and overwhelmed all at once. In this episode, we talk about why boundaries exist, where they come from, and what they are actually doing at a soul level.
We are not trying to fix boundaries or label them good or bad. We are trying to understand them. This podcast episode keeps circling back to boundaries because they are often a signal, not a solution.
We also touch on freedom, pop culture moments like Stranger Things, and how distraction can sometimes be a way we regulate before we have the words. These moments matter because they show how boundaries form in everyday life, not just in big emotional conversations. Intuition shows up in small, human ways first.
The heart of this episode is the difference between mental boundaries and heart-led boundaries. Through breathwork, body awareness, and soul-level perspective, we explore how the heart already knows when something is too much. The mind often steps in later and builds rules to feel safe. That is not wrong, but it is worth noticing.
We talk about empathy, suffering, and why feeling flooded by other people’s pain does not mean you are weak or ungrounded. Sometimes it means you are deeply connected. From a Higher Self view, there is no rush to resolve everything in one lifetime. Growth does not require constant closure.
This episode also asks a bigger question. Are boundaries always protection, or can they sometimes be self-numbing? When we feel nothing, is that peace or overload? These are not questions with quick answers. They are questions meant to be lived with.
What You’ll Learn
Why boundaries often come from capacity, not failure
The difference between mental rules and heart-led knowing
How breathwork reveals the heart’s natural limits
Why empathy can feel overwhelming instead of empowering
When distance supports growth and when it blocks it
How the soul views unfinished relationships
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