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

By Anne Katherine, MA.  (2000)

From Amazon.com: “From the acclaimed author of the perennial favorite Boundaries, Where to Draw the Line is a practical guide to establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries in many different 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.”

Boundaries and Relationships

Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self

By Charles L. Whitfield, MD. (1994)

From Amazon.com: “More than personal boundaries, this book is really about relationships–healthy and unhealthy ones. Here bestselling author and psychotherapist Charles Whitfield blends theories and dynamics from several disciplines into practical knowledge and actions that your can use in your relationships right now.

This comprehensive book opens with clear definitions and descriptions of boundaries, a self-assessment survey and a history of our accumulated knowledge. Going deeper, it describes the 10 essential areas of human interaction wherein you can improve your relationships. These include age regression, giving and receiving (projection and projective identification), triangles, core recovery issues, basic dynamics, unfinished business and spirituality. It shows in countless practical ways how knowledge of each of these is most useful in your recovery and everyday life.”

Brene Brown – Boundaries, Empathy, and Compassion

Brene Brown – Boundaries, Empathy, and Compassion

 

https://youtu.be/ecb6ExBaW80

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Published March 7, 2016

I do not own any rights to this interview. I could not find this exact interview anywhere on YouTube, so I decided to upload it. This was found on the Facebook page: The Work of the People. This is an interview with scholar, author, and public speaker, Brene Brown. In this interview, she speaks about setting boundaries, her B-I-G idea, the belief of compassion, and the act of empathy.

When Parents Make Children Their Friend or Spouse

When Parents Make Children Their Friend or Spouse

my mother, my mate

Posted Jul 24, 2011

By Susan Pease Gadoua, LCSW, Contemplating Divorce

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/contemplating-divorce/201107/when-parents-make-children-their-friend-or-spouse