When Saying No Feels Impossible
May 14, 2026
Today's episode is called When saying No Feels Impossible.
It is our fourth in the series on how to set Christ like boundaries without feeling guilty.
Years ago I had a client who was a grandma and she was the grandma to a sweet little nine month old baby girl and the mother was her stepdaughter.
The mother of this child struggled.
She struggled with following through on responsibility.
She struggled with holding a job.
She liked partying on the weekends and grandma really enjoyed taking care of the baby.
However, she found herself all of the time taking care of this baby randomly.
Sometimes the mom would leave the baby overnight without really expressing when she was coming to pick it up.
So she had no idea how long she's going to have the baby, if it's going to be overnight, if it was going to be the whole weekend and she was just babysitting this baby all the time.
Sometimes she would have her own plans and her own things that she was working on.
...How to Stop Trying Fixing Everything and Everyone
Apr 09, 2026
Today's episode is called How to Stop trying to fix Everything and Everyone and it is the first in our series on how to set Christ like boundaries without feeling guilty.
It would be so easy for me to just say, OK, the next time you need to set a boundary, all you have to do is just say, well, that doesn't work for me.
But the problem is, is that we have core values.
We have deeply held beliefs, and we have identity issues that make saying no or disappointing someone feel not only impossible but incredibly painful.
So we need to shift some of the foundational beliefs that we have so that it makes it more easy for us to be like Jesus.
Because Jesus absolutely set boundaries, and he set some hard boundaries.
And we will learn about that in this series.
Our first challenge is that we feel responsible for everyone and everything.
If we don't take care of it all, it feels like it's all going to fall apart.
And we feel it's our job to rescue people.
The reali
...The Lie Making You Exhausted and Burned Out
Apr 09, 2026
Today's episode is our second in the series on how to set Christ like boundaries without guilt.
And it is called the lie that is making you exhausted and burnout.
Years ago, when my children were small, I have seven of them, I did daycare so that I could be a stay at home mom.
And so that meant I usually had, I don't know, two or three, three or four extra kids running around my house besides my 7.
One day there was a lady in our ward in our neighborhood who was moving and she was a hoarder and she needed help.
The thought of helping this lady move was so completely overwhelming for me.
I knew I wouldn't be able to do it when the Relief Society president called me and asked if I can her help her move.
There was several ladies in our ward who were going over to help her.
I said no.
I said I can't because I have my own children plus my dare care kids and I can't leave.
She said oh good.
Well all the ladies who are coming to help me to babysit her so we'l
...Why God Says It's Okay to Say No
Nov 20, 2025
Hi, I'm Julie Hawkes. Welcome to The Laws of Peace, where you will learn how to understand and apply God's laws in simple ways so that you can take small steps to create big changes and miracles and become the person you are always meant to be.
The answers are in the scriptures. Let me show you how to find them. Today's episode is called Why God Says It's Okay to Say No.
We are talking about the law of giving and receiving this month, and it has three parts. The first part states that you cannot give what you do not have. And it sounds so logical, like I cannot give you chocolate if I do not have chocolate.
And yet we give from a place of burnout. We give from a place of being depleted and exhausted and stressed out, and we just give and give and give and give. But why do we do that?
Why don't we say no? I have a few ideas. We may feel guilty when we say no.
We don't want to disappoint or let other people down. People might be angry if we say no. And isn't char...
