Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Wherever you are in your life, you have choices. You can choose to ask for or allow others to help you with things, or you can choose to overextend yourself to keep the good graces of others. #2 Boundary issues are extremely common, and they typically come from bad boundaries. Bad boundaries are exhausting. They create dramas that suck our time and energy. To stop these distractions, we have to go back to our earliest influences and examine how those influences led to these unhealthy boundaries. #3 In my family, it was clear that my parents had an unspoken agreement about how each would operate: my father was the breadwinner, and my mother was the nurturer and family manager. I learned to avoid conflict and anger by reading people and scanning situations. #4 I grew up in a household where my four sisters and I acted out our repressed anger by door slamming, shit talking, and occasionally fighting. I learned to bury my true feelings and adapt them into more allowable ones

Mode of access: World Wide Web