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

Practical Guide to Establishing and Maintaining Healthy Boundaries

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.

Comprehensive Tools for Every Aspect of Daily Life

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.

Real-Life Examples and Specific Advice

Using real-life examples, from self-sacrificing mothers to obsessive neat freaks, Katherine offers specific advice on making choices that balance one's own needs with the needs of others. The book demonstrates how to strengthen boundaries and hold them in place every day through practical, actionable strategies.

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.