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Hey there everyone and welcome to tonight's text based event on Setting Boundaries as a Carer!

As mentioned, the event goes from 7-8.30pm, it's all online - right here in this thread  We recommend you settle in with a cup of tea & with your laptop or computer at the ready! If you hit the refresh arrow on your browser every few minutes, you will see new questions pop up from myself as well as responses from the community. Feel free to reply to other members and share your experience 🙂 

I'd like to extend an extra warm welcome to those members who wanted a reminder of tonight's event 🎉🎉🎉 :

I hope you all enjoy participating or reading along 🙂 

Boundary setting is an important, albeit difficult, part of self-care when a loved one is living with complex mental health challenge. Tonight we are lucky to have our friend @Bron from Arafmi joining in the discussion. Arafmi are for people who care for, or about, someone with a mental health issue, they are well versed in supporting carers through setting boundaries and maintaining self-care. Feel free to hit reply on any of her posts if you want to ask a question (within guidelines of course). 

Before we kick off the first question, let's get @Bron to introduce herself ...

Good evening.  My name is Bronwynne.  I’ve worked as the education facilitator at Arafmi for the last 5 years.  To us at Arafmi, a mental health carer is a family member or friend who cares for and about a person who experiences mental health issues. My work involves facilitating educational workshops specific to mental health carers to help them understand the impact of mental illness; to better support their loved on the recovery journey; to improve their relationship with the person they care for; and how to care for themselves.