Setting Boundaries with Difficult People: Six Steps to SANITY for Challenging Relationships

by Allison Bottke, Karol Ladd (Foreword by)

Overview

Continuing her popular Setting Boundaries® series, Allison Bottke offer her distinctive “Six Steps to SANITY” to readers who must deal with difficult people.

S…Stop your own negative behavior
A…Assemble a support group
N…Nip excuses in the bud
I…Implement rules and boundaries
T….Trust your instincts
Y…Yield everything to God

Whether it’s a spouse, in-law, boss, coworker, family member, neighbor, or friend, readers who have allowed others to overstep their boundaries will learn how these six steps can help them reset those boundaries and take back their life…for good.

Setting Boundaries® with Difficult People is designed to inspire, empower, and equip readers with the tools to transform lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780736941341
Publisher:	Harvest House Publishers
Publication date:	10/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	847 KB

About the Author

Allison Bottke is the award-winning author of the acclaimed Setting Boundaries® series, which includes Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children, Setting Boundaries with Your Aging Parents, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People, Setting Boundaries with Food, Setting Boundaries for Women, and The Young Women’s Guide to Setting Boundaries. She is the founder of the SANITY Support Group, an outreach based on the Setting Boundaries® series (more than 150,000 sold). Her other books include the God Answers Prayers series, and she is the founder and general editor of more than a dozen volumes in the popular God Allows U-Turns® anthology. She has written or edited more than 30 nonfiction and fiction books, and is a frequent guest on national radio and TV programs. Allison lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

www.settingboundariesbooks.com

Awards

Winner of the Selah Award for Best Book of the Year for Setting Boundaries with Food in 2013

Allison Bottke is the award-winning author of the acclaimed Setting Boundaries® series, which includes Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children, Setting Boundaries with Your Aging Parents, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People, Setting Boundaries with Food, Setting Boundaries for Women, and The Young Women’s Guide to Setting Boundaries. She is the founder of the SANITY Support Group, an outreach based on the Setting Boundaries® series (more than 150,000 sold). Her other books include the God Answers Prayers series, and she is the founder and general editor of more than a dozen volumes in the popular God Allows U-Turns® anthology. She has written or edited more than 30 nonfiction and fiction books, and is a frequent guest on national radio and TV programs. Allison lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

www.settingboundariesbooks.com

Awards

Winner of the Selah Award for Best Book of the Year for Setting Boundaries with Food in 2013

Karol Ladd is a gifted Bible teacher and a bestselling author. Her more than 30 releases include Unfailing Love and A Woman’s Secret for Confident Living book and DVD, all in the Positive Woman Connection Bible study series; Positive Life Principles for Women; and The Power of a Positive Woman. Known as “The Positive Lady,” she is a popular speaker and a frequent guest on radio and television. Her most valued role is that of wife and mother. Visit her website at www.KarolLadd.com for more inspiration and encouragement.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Setting Boundaries with Difficult People provides excellent insight and step-by-step action for every reader. I highly recommend this book. In fact, you should probably buy at least two of them—one for yourself and one to give to someone else. It is that good.”
—Terry Whalin, publisher, editor, and writer

“Allison Bottke has written a helpful and inspiring book on how to live with and manage difficult relationships at home, at work, and in our community. We all have people in our lives who challenge us, and yet God loves them as much as he loves us! So the task is to be kind, loving, grace-filled, and firm about how we wish to be treated. After reading this book you'll be well-equipped to do all of these things.”
—Karen O'Connor, author of Gettin' Old Ain't for Wimps and The Upside of Downsizing

“Setting Boundaries with Difficult People by Allison Bottke is an easy-to-read, encouraging book for those dealing with near-to-impossible situations and relationships in life that strain us beyond measure. Filled with heart-catching insight (you'll see yourself and your own situation here!), this helpful book brings ‘S-a-n-i-t-y’ to the situation and offers deeply spiritual and down-to-earth, practical advice for handling the tough-but-tender relationships in life. I am pleased to heartily recommend it—and any other publication by this wonderful Christian writer.”
—Peggie Bohanon, Founder, Peggie's Place Ministry, PeggiesPlace.com

Editorial Reviews

Setting Boundaries with Difficult People provides excellent insight and step-by-step action for every reader. I highly recommend this book. In fact, you should probably buy at least two of them—one for yourself and one to give to someone else. It is that good.”
—Terry Whalin, publisher, editor, and writer

“Allison Bottke has written a helpful and inspiring book on how to live with and manage difficult relationships at home, at work, and in our community. We all have people in our lives who challenge us, and yet God loves them as much as he loves us! So the task is to be kind, loving, grace-filled, and firm about how we wish to be treated. After reading this book you'll be well-equipped to do all of these things.”
—Karen O'Connor, author of Gettin' Old Ain't for Wimps and The Upside of Downsizing

“Setting Boundaries with Difficult People by Allison Bottke is an easy-to-read, encouraging book for those dealing with near-to-impossible situations and relationships in life that strain us beyond measure. Filled with heart-catching insight (you'll see yourself and your own situation here!), this helpful book brings ‘S-a-n-i-t-y’ to the situation and offers deeply spiritual and down-to-earth, practical advice for handling the tough-but-tender relationships in life. I am pleased to heartily recommend it—and any other publication by this wonderful Christian writer.”
—Peggie Bohanon, Founder, Peggie's Place Ministry, PeggiesPlace.com

From the Publisher