Does everything feel like too much these days? Get When Life Sucks: 21 Days of Laughs and Light for free when you join the Tiny Buddha list. “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” ~Sonya Friedman The longer I stayed on the phone, the more agitated I became. My mother was on the other end, as usual, dumping her emotions on me. I had moved to Los Angeles for graduate school in part to escape all of this—my mother’s unhappiness, my sense of responsibility, the pressure to be perfect. When I hung up the phone, I felt … Continue reading Setting Emotional Boundaries: Stop Taking on Other People’s Feelings