Setting Boundaries® with Your Aging Parents: Finding Balance Between Burnout and RespectThis important book from the author of Setting Boundaries® with Your Adult Children (more than 40,000 sold) will help adult children who long for a better relationship with their parents but feel trapped in a never-ending cycle of chaos, crisis, or drama. With keen insight and a passion to empower adult children, Allison charts a trustworthy roadmap through the often unfamiliar territory of setting boundaries with parents while maintaining personal balance and avoiding burnout. Through the use of professional advice, true stories, and scriptural truth, readers learn how to apply the “6 Steps to SANITY”: S-STOP your own negative behavior Resources are available at the ministry website: www.settingboundaries.com |
From inside the book
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... ourselves and others we love and are called to protect. Please, don't get me wrong. Some pain in life is inevitable and even required as we grow. Sacrifice is sometimes necessary in our lives as maturing adult children. It may bring new ...
... ourselves, our families, and our parents in authentic and loving ways. We don't want to implement boundaries that will cause us regrets after our parents have left this earth. Death may eventually end a life, but it does not end a ...
... ourselves in the process . We can get healthy and take back our lives . We can find sanity ! To do that , we need to start with two critical tasks : 1. We must understand how we got to this place of burnout . 2. We must understand how ...
... ourselves develop new skills and coping strategies take off the blinders and look in the mirror find SANITY And as we've seen , you can find sanity if you ... S - Stop your own negative behavior . A - Assemble a support group . N - Nip ...
... ourselves results in conflict, rejection, or abandonment, it's likely that we'll shut down when we need to set a boundary, rather than take that risk. 8 I came across Dr. Bluestein's book doing research for Setting Boundaries with Your ...
Contents
Its All About Change and Choice | |
Im Only Trying to Help | |
The Motivation Behind the Madness | |
NNip Excuses in the | |
IImplement Rules and Boundaries | |
TTrustYour Instincts 17 YYield Everything to | |
The Dawn of a New Beginning | |
Put It in Writing | |
Stress Triggers | |
Expectations | |
Consequences | |
Pain from the Past | |
Toxic Elders and Destructive Choices | |
The Power of Love and Forgiveness | |
Respect | |
When Your Parents Become Dependent | |
Financial Fallout | |
The Six Steps to SANITY | |
SStop Your Own Negative Behavior | |
AAssemble a Support Group | |
Sowing and Reaping | |
A Closing Message from Allison | |
Sample Letters | |
Notes | |
Stay in Touch | |
About the Author | |
You can also find SANITY in the first of Allisons Setting Boundaries books | |
Six Steps to SANITY Support Groups An Invitation from Allison COMING SOON Spring 2011 | |
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Setting Boundaries with Your Aging Parents: Finding Balance Between Burnout ... Allison Bottke No preview available - 2010 |