Back to Zero Weekly:Your Patience Has Limits
Jan 12, 2026
Welcome to Back to Zero Weekly: Big Emotions, Simple Strategies.
Each week, get one quick, actionable strategy to help you manage emotions, build self-awareness, and strengthen your relationship with yourself and others, creating greater space for joy.
Your Patience Has Limits
There are moments when even your strongest qualities meet their edges. You can be patient and still feel stretched to the limit. You can care deeply and still feel the pull of your own limits. These truths don’t make you less compassionate; they simply make you human. Noticing when your capacity is reaching its boundary is an act of emotional wisdom, inviting you to pause, breathe, and return to yourself with clarity and care.
Strategy for the Week: When you feel your patience thinning, use a boundary phrase such as, I want to give this my full attention, but I need a moment first.
The way we honor our limits shapes the energy we bring into any situation.
Love, Dr. Joy
Be sure to explore my books, Back to Zero and Joy Works: 8 Lessons for Educators, to support you in transforming your own approach to personal growth through empathy, consistency, and connection.
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