Where to Draw the Line: How to Set up Healthy Boundaries Every Day

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Where to Draw the Line: How to Set up Healthy Boundaries Every Day by Anne Katherine

In the perennial favorite Boundaries, Anne Katherine introduced the concept and importance of personal limits. In Where to Draw the Line, she takes the next step with a practical guide to establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries in a wide range of situations.

With every encounter, we either demonstrate that we'll protect what we value or that we'll give ourselves away. Healthy boundaries preserve our integrity. Unlike defenses, which isolate us from our true selves and from those we love, boundaries filter out harm.

This book provides the tools and insights needed to create boundaries so that we can allow time and energy for the things that matter -- and helps break down limiting defenses that stunt personal growth. Focusing on every facet of daily life -- from friendships and sexual relationships to dress and appearance to money, food, and psychotherapy -- Katherine presents case studies highlighting the ways in which individuals violate their own boundaries or let other people breach them. Using real-life examples, from self-sacrificing mothers to obsessive neat freaks, she offers specific advice on making choices that balance one's own needs with the needs of others.

Boundaries are the unseen structures that support healthy, productive lives. Where to Draw the Line shows readers how to strengthen them and hold them in place every day.

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A Good Book to Teach You To Set and Stick to Your Limits You Have For Others!
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For many of us, we spend our lives being walked over, at least until we pick up a book such as Where to Draw the Line that makes us spend some time self-examining and doing some serious soul searching to say we will create healthy boundaries.

By creating healthy boundaries, this book shows us we will receive many benefits, one of which is regaining our health. At first I had no idea what that meant until it was shared that when you don't have boundaries, you normally incur high levels of stress and we all know what stress can do to our body. It doesn't stop with creating the boundaries but we must enforce them and stick to them which may be difficult with some people we have boundaries for such as our loved ones.

For me, this book was very interesting and helpful. I gained a lot of insight on also how to be assertive rather than passive. It helps to strengthen you as a person and is really uplifting. A book that is easy to read, follow and most importantly put into practice as you read it. I highly recommend it to all.

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I loved this book. It’s all about setting healthy boundaries with certain types of people in your life. If you can’t say no to people or have relationship problems, this is a great book. It is an easy read also. It may be helpful to nip problem areas in the bud with certain types of needy people before they start. It covers more than just relationships; it is useful in any area of your life where you need to set boundaries. For instance if you are always the one asked to worked overtime or always asked to watched someone else’s kids then learning to set boundaries is a great tool. You have to take care of yourself first and if you don’t know how to handle a situation except to take it, you end up without time for yourself. To me this book would be great with “The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense”. A lot of women tend to have this problem with boundaries.