In the perennial favorite Boundaries, Anne Katherine introduced the concept and need for personal limits. In Where to Draw the Series, she takes the next step with a useful 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 should value or that we’ll give ourselves away. Healthy boundaries protect our integrity. Unlike defenses, which isolate us from our true selves and from those we about Where you can Draw the Range: How to Established Healthy Boundaries EACH DAY love, boundaries filter out harm.

This book provides the tools and insights needed to create boundaries, that may leisure time and energy for things that matter-and helps breakdown limiting defenses that stunt personal growth. Focusing on every element of daily life-from friendships and intimate relationships to dress and appearance to cash, meals, and psychotherapy-Katherine presents case studies highlighting the ways that individuals violate their very own boundaries or allow other folks breach them. Using real-life examples, from self-sacrificing moms to obsessive neat freaks, she gives specific advice on making choices that stability one’s own needs using the needs of others.