Where to Draw the Line, Anne Katherine, MA
Where to Draw the Line, Anne Katherine, MA
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Where to Draw the Line
How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day

Author: Anne Katherine, MA

Narrator: Donna Postel

Unabridged: 8 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/22/2018


Synopsis

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, which will free 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.

About Anne Katherine, MA

For forty years, Anne Katherine, MA, was a dedicated psychotherapist, now retired. Her focus on deep relationships led her to both a rich spiritual life and authorship of numerous books that continue to improve people's lives. In her new profession as a screenwriter, ghost writer, and fiction author, she has won top honors in contests. She received a Master Screenwriter certificate in 2016. Exposed to both the highest and the lowest human experiences throughout her life, she gained wisdom that she weaves, with a promise, through all her stories-that over time, we, as individuals and as a people, advance.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Madeline on June 14, 2015

There are some useful tips in this book, however, on the whole I found it sexist, ageist, racist, and classist. The author consistently misses the point about feminism. The entire book is focused on how men relate with women and vice versa, with no regard to different sexualities/genders. She preten......more

Goodreads review by Dana on March 07, 2008

I'm one of those folks who was raised not really knowing what boundaries are. I thought we just sort of accept whatever people dish out and feel sorry for them when they misbehave. I really did! I discovered through reading this book what boundaries look like and that setting down clear boundries ab......more

Goodreads review by Ben on May 19, 2017

It seemed like it was really going somewhere when it talked about the difference between defenses & boundaries, types of informational boundaries, conversational boundaries & such, but then went into not-very-useful territory of specific cultural boundaries and vague, not-very helpful suggestions. I......more

Goodreads review by Ena on September 13, 2017

Yes i'm hopeless lmao......more

Goodreads review by Alina on June 08, 2019

"The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We must take ourselves out of violating situations for the sake of our own wholeness.” “We sometimes fee......more