Setting Boundaries

by Ann Ford

Most members of Adult Children of Alcoholics and other dysfunctional families grew up lacking secure boundaries. Less than 25% of the U.S. population grows up in a “safe” environment, since the U.S. has high levels of violence to adults and to children. This book helps you recover and build self-validation, restore some boundaries, and deal with codelendence issues:
• Boundaries to protect yourself
• Tell-tale clues about your boundaries, and that you can be “intimidated”
• Does your body language say “I’m easy”, or overly tolerant?
• How to recover and build self validation
• Every single day increase your self validation
• Bullying and what drives bullies
• When bullies and helplessness force codependence
• When emotional drives turn to cruelty
• Codependence styles – codependence is a “soft” addiction
• Look at some common types of codependence
• Quiz – your boundaries
• Childhood trauma types can lead to having no boundaries
• Quiz – ways to be codependent
• Learning levels of trust, to not be a victim
• Hand-out on forgiveness
• Things to say to forgive yourself

50 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 5, 2014