š„ PUB Mentality: Not the Bar, BabeāThe Blueprint
Peace. Understanding. Boundaries.
SEMPER SANA
Annie Oakley-Baker
7/12/20252 min read


Peace. Understanding. Boundaries.
Thatās the cocktail. Stirred with intention, served with no apologies, and topped off with the kind of emotional maturity that makes people blink twice. PUB isnāt your local watering holeāitās your internal compass. And once you start living from this mindset, you donāt just change your life. You change your legacy.
šø Letās Start with Peace
Peace isnāt weakness. Itās not the absence of conflictāitās your refusal to be owned by it. The moment you realize you donāt have to internalize every stray opinion, every jab, every off-kilter vibe? You level up. Peace is the calm you earn after setting boundaries so fierce theyād make a dragon rethink its fire.
Itās the quiet confidence that says, āI donāt raise my voiceāI raise my standards.ā
š Understanding Is Not Agreement
Understanding says, āI see you.ā Thatās it.
It doesnāt mean āI approve of you,ā or āIāll tolerate your nonsense,ā or āLetās play trauma bonding.ā It means, āI get where this comes fromāeven if itās toxic, messy, or wildly delusional.ā
Understanding lets you observe instead of absorb.
And baby, when you stop absorbing other peopleās drama, you get your bandwidth back. You reclaim your energy. You get your joy on speed dial.
š Boundaries Are Self-Respect with a Bite
Without boundaries, peace becomes performative.
Understanding becomes enabling.
You start shrink-wrapping your worth to fit other peopleās chaos.
But when boundaries walk in? The whole room recalibrates.
Boundaries are your velvet rope. They say, āAccess requires respect.ā
Theyāre not there to isolate youātheyāre there to keep your healing sacred. Theyāre your bouncers, your bodyguards, your emotional encryption.
š§ PUB Philosophy in Action
You face a challenge.
You seek Understanding. You pinpoint whether itās hurt, projection, immaturity, or manipulation.
You apply Boundaries. You decide what gets to influence your world and what gets filed under āreturn to sender.ā
And thenāyou find Peace. The real kind. The peace that whispers: āYouāre not reacting. Youāre evolving.ā
š Once You Get It, You Donāt Forget It
PUB thinking changes your whole vibe. You donāt chase closure. You embody it. You donāt beg for clarity. You become it. Your healing isnāt a hobbyāitās holy work. And now, you walk into rooms with the energy of someone whoās done the work.
People will say, āYouāve changed.ā
Let them. Change is your power suit. PUB is your armor.