Setting Boundaries With An Open Heart - by Meredith Hooke

COURSE

Setting Boundaries With An Open Heart

With Meredith Hooke

Setting Boundaries with an Open Heart is designed to help you identify what your boundaries are, and give you the confidence to use them. This course will guide you in understanding the false belief that remaining silent causes less suffering, revealing the true impact and suffering that occurs when we fail to set boundaries. Learn to access the wisdom of your heart to create wise and compassionate boundaries. Ultimately, this course is about creating the life you want to live through the power of thoughtful and effective boundaries.


Meet your Teacher

Meredith is a spiritual practitioner and teacher with 25 years of experience in meditation and contemplative practice. She has developed a unique teaching style grounded in the ancient wisdom of Theravada and Tibetan Buddhism and yet accessible to anyone seeking to deepen their spiritual practice. Meredith lives a quiet life of contemplation and spiritual practice in a small village in Southern Baja, Mexico.

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4 Days

400 students

4.9 stars

26 min / day

Authenticity

English


Lesson 1

Our First Challenge In Setting Boundaries

Our first challenge is that we aren't clear about what our boundaries are. So every time we're asked to do something we don't want to do, or someone is treating us in a way that we're uncomfortable with we freeze because we don't know what to do - leading us to the most passive response possible - not speaking up. In this lesson, we discuss the importance of creating our Terms of Engagement - a document that helps us know ourselves: to know what our boundaries are, what we want our lives to look like and how we want to engage with others. When we know what our boundaries are we are more clear, confident, and decisive.

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Lesson 2

Addressing The Fear, Guilt, And Regret Of Boundaries

In this lesson, we look at the belief we have that if we don't set boundaries we are somehow avoiding suffering when the reality is we just go up into our thoughts pushing back and create more suffering. We are taking advice from our egos and we are getting bad advice. The solution is to get better advice - accessing the wisdom of our hearts to give us the confidence, clarity and courage to set a boundary because we know it's the right thing to do.

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Lesson 3

Creating The Life You Want

In this lesson, we start by getting a better sense of the life you want to live by taking a short quiz to determine whether you are an introvert, ambivert or extrovert. Then we'll do two more exercises to see how you want your life to feel and what values are important to you. These exercises help give you a better sense of the life you want to live, so we can then complete your Terms of Engagement, keeping these things in mind.

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Lesson 4

This Is A Practice

In this lesson, I offer some guidelines and language/different phrases that you might use to set boundaries. Finding language that works for you and practicing (in the mirror!) ahead of time can be very helpful in getting comfortable with setting boundaries. We also address signs of a toxic relationship, and how we can best address that. And to remember, above all, that this is a practice - sometimes it's 2 steps forward, 3 steps back. That's OK, just keep practicing. Remember this is about living the life you want to live.

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4.9 (46)

Recent Reviews

Sara

Sara

January 31, 2026

If we want to learn a kind and loving message about boundaries this is the one teaching I recomend. In Meredith's teaching one can feel the love and empowering way to learn setting boundaries. Not intimidating at all. 🙏

M

November 7, 2025

Extremely helpful! Thank you!

Angel

Angel

October 3, 2025

Practical thoughtful advice coming from the heart.

Chase

Chase

August 17, 2025

The masterclass on getting clear on my life, my terms of engagement, and allowing me to show up in this world with clarity, and integrity. Thank for so much for this

Karenmarie

Karenmarie

January 10, 2025

Thank you so much. This course is extremely useful and taught with much care and compassion. I recommend everyone take this course to improve their relationships -- both with ourselves and with others. 🙏🏽

Jana

Jana

November 19, 2024

This was the best course I ever attended. Thank you so much!

Carrie

Carrie

November 11, 2024

Incredible coarse I refer to this coarse often. 🙏🏽Thank you for what you do. Warmly, Care

Amy

Amy

September 29, 2024

Excellent course!

Philippa

Philippa

September 10, 2024

This is such a wonderful course to do. Meredith really gets down to the nitty gritty of why we need boundaries, how to make them, how to be clear about them and how to maintain them. Yes, it's a short course but it's full of wisdom and practical application. This course is for anyone who has difficulty setting and maintaining boundaries. It's well worth doing.

Alison

September 1, 2024

Thank you so much, Meredith. Really helpful, user-friendly, kind and compassionate ways to set boundaries in a loving, non-confrontational and respectful way. You've given me a precious set of tools which I'm sure will guide me to protect my peace of mind and start to live a happier, more confident and authentic life. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Kim

Kim

August 30, 2024

A roadmap to living a truly authentic life with loving kindness & compassion. We are works in progress in this ever changing universe with all it's complexities & nuances. To just be who we truly are is the ultimate freedom and acceptance of being Love. 🙏 Namaste Meredith In humble acceptance of your wise words 💖🪷🌟🌞🌝🌈😊😁

Tatyana

Tatyana

August 21, 2024

Thank you for this course . It has a lot of helpful information about setting boundaries . Much love and gratitude for sharing this amazing knowledge ❤️🙏

Alice

Alice

August 15, 2024

fabulous ✨ Meredith is an amazing teacher. Her gentle guidance and her soft spoken voice allows me to be at ease. She explains everything in a way that is easy to understand and easy to apply to my life. Learning about the ‘rules of engagement’ is worth listening to this course alone. thanks Meredith for your teachings 🦋🩵💙🦋🩵💙🦋🩵💙🦋

Sandy

Sandy

August 15, 2024

Five stars is not enough for the kind of course this is for me. ❤️😊🙏🏻

Melody

August 4, 2024

This is the second time I have listened to your course. It has helped me immensely too understand when I need to create boundaries and you’re a specific examples of how to create boundaries have been very helpful. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. Many blessings to you 🙏🏼 Namaste💕

Hilary

July 7, 2024

I’ve read and heard so much about boundaries over the past few years (and wished that this were a topic introduced much earlier in my life!!) but this is by far the clearest, most succinct and practical I’ve come across. Despite my familiarity with many Buddhist teachings, the forgiveness prayer was new to me, and now one of greatest gifts of this course. I’ve begun practicing the Terms of Engagement daily - I now think of them as Terms of Endearment because they are how I treat myself first with loving-kindness and respect in order to treat others the same. I’m so grateful for this teacher’s time, knowledge, and willingness to present this course.

Annie

Annie

June 28, 2024

Excellent course! Thank you so much. I will be listening to this again, and I will share it with others who are interested in enhancing their relationships. Namaste 🌹

Kimistry

Kimistry

June 23, 2024

Wow. I gained several tools from this experience that I found myself egar to implement in every relationship. Some in small ways others with gusto. What is most important is "kindness."

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