Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin: How to Recognize and Set Healthy Boundaries

by Anne Katherine

Paperback, 1994

Status

Available

Description

Have you recently walked away from a date or a conversation feeling uncomfortable or violated? Are you looking for ways to set limits with your spouse, kids, parents, or boss? This essential guide to setting and respecting boundaries is for anyone wanting to better understand themselves and others. Just as a cut in our skin causes pain and injury, a breach of any of our physical, emotional, or sexual boundaries can be very harmful to our bodies and minds. We may need help to heal from past boundary violations, respect the boundaries of those around us, and learn how to set healthy limits for the future, particularly if we have a history of trauma, unhealthy relationships, addiction, or adverse childhood experiences. Drawing on decades of personal and professional experience as a therapist-as well as stories from others who have learned how to heal from serious boundary violations-Anne Katherine, MA, brings us an invaluable, foundational guide on the who, what, and why of boundaries. With nearly 100,000 copies sold, Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin has already helped thousands of readers stand up for themselves and nurture healthier relationship.… (more)

Physical description

134 p.; 5.5 inches

User reviews

LibraryThing member 89vine
I started hating men after I read this book, and I'm a man!

Really though, the format of this book is to give anecdotal stories followed by 'gems' of understanding from the author. I really wish it would have gone over step-by-step ways of setting boundaries. If you're looking for that type of
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book, this isn't it.
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LibraryThing member rgberg2
Dreadfully written and humorless. The author gives lip-service to the notion that boundaries are personal choices, then proceeds to present her own boundaries as universals. Her writing style is judgemental, her anecdotes contain cartoon characters rather than real people, and she just can't resist
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sharing her priggish attitudes with her readers (eg, her blanket condemnation of women who wear revealing bikinis at the beach). I just hope the author does not have a clinical practice, where she could do some real harm.
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LibraryThing member bakersfieldbarbara
A good book to outline the boundaries and lines that are crossed everyday by people in relationships of any kind. Boundary violations are stated from incidents told by the author's clients. This book will help you to understand when you have been violated , and how to understand the process.

Original publication date

1991

ISBN

0671791931 / 9780671791933
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