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The Boundary Is You: A guide to creating boundaries in your relationships by loving yourself more

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As seen in the New York Times International Edition, USA Today, and featured on iHeartRadio, internationally acclaimed bestselling author Chany Rosengarten gives us the next Brené Brown-esque easy-to-read, self-help book, to give you boundaries in a fast and simple way. “Chany shares her knowledge and wisdom with so much love and compassion.” The Boundary Is You will teach you how to create boundaries by becoming the boundary yourself. If you’ve tried making boundaries with others, you already know the process is painful, difficult, or impossible. Making boundaries leaves you in the vulnerable position of either needing to fight hard for your rights to establish boundaries or be trampled. If the people you need to make boundaries with were the most accommodating people, chances are you wouldn’t need to make boundaries with them at all. But there’s a better way. If you are ready to establish boundaries, and you want to do it in an easy, pain-free way, this book is for you. If you are ready for relationships that respect and support you, this book will be your guide. You’ll learn how to understand the power you have in every relationship. You’ll discover how to love and accept yourself even if you’re not perfect or have made mistakes. You will take back your authority to make important choices in your life. You will gain a clear method for getting your needs met. You’ll have direction in your life, knowing what you want and getting it. Chany Rosengarten, a mother of four children, doesn’t have the time or energy to waste on fixing people by making their boundaries for them. Chany experienced the pain of being in boundary-less relationships, which was decidedly unpleasant. She wanted a way to create boundaries that worked for everyone, and has since researched, applied, and taught this method to hundreds of women. If you are ready to make boundaries as immovable as a mountain, and as clearly demarked as the land is to the sea, this book is your way forward.

148 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 16, 2020

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Profile Image for Kirti Diwakar.
48 reviews
October 27, 2020
We all know, everything has its boundary and we do not allow people to cross it but sometimes when we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated inviting lack of respect which in turn develops anxiety, pain and depression resulting self-anger.

The book, “The Boundary is You” by Chany G. Rosengarten is all about setting boundaries or building walls around to protect your inner self from getting hurt by the outer world. The major part of this book talks about self-love and self-care sharing the ways to develop and protect your inner core.

The moment I started reading this book I was speechless. The way author has narrated the concept of setting up a boundary was actually a difficult task at least for me to explain so beautifully relating it with the real-life circumstances. I related to most of the situations especially, the one where I had to say “No” in my childhood. I never said no to anything but my younger brother did and this was the exact situation that I completely related to myself.

I found the book to be worth reading that will teach you that loving yourself isn’t selfish but it’s all about maintaining your inner peace by choosing and taking your own decisions that will not only keep you happy, refreshed, excited but will also motivate your to find your purpose of living your life to the fullest. The book is truly an exceptional self-help read that describes the mixed and complicated feelings effortlessly. I will appreciate the author for observing, analysing and simplifying the difficult terms of self-realisation. A highly recommended book to pass your life's difficult phase smoothly.
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107 reviews9 followers
November 24, 2020
To my surprise, I really enjoyed this book. I wasn’t sure at the beginning, because I didn’t think I was in the author’s target audience. But, a client had spoken highly of it, it was short, and I was curious enough to give it a try. I am glad that I did.

The author is clear, engaging, concise, to the point, and sometimes funny. She lays out a basic framework for loving oneself and centering oneself in one’s own life for the benefit of self and others and I thought it was on point and well articulated.

She gave a clear process to follow to deepen self love and to proactively attend to one’s own needs and there were opportunities for reflection at each stage. She had a handy little mnemonic that made the steps of her process easy to remember.

The process wasn’t over-complicated and the book wasn’t over-written. It’s a very short book and a quick read (or listen).

Given what it is and what she’s trying to do, I think she did a good job.

Limitations: Even though the principles are broadly applicable, the book feels like it’s really oriented to presumably cis women in potentially co-dependent or abusive relationships with men. There’s a lack of attention to other perspectives. There was also little treatment given to how systems of power may impact any of this. (Or that they exist at all.) She doesn’t really identify how her own privilege shapes her thoughts, though I imagine people with fewer privileges than she has might easily see some limitations in her reasoning. So, I also didn’t agree with everything she said on that basis. Nevertheless, I felt happy to take what she was offering and enjoy and appreciate what was compelling for me about her simple primer in self-love and leave the rest. For me, it didn’t get in the way of my appreciating what was useful about the book. But, I did dock it by one star.
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384 reviews28 followers
January 1, 2021
Usually, we all spend some time taking care of our physical health. But often we ignore our mental health. We don’t have any screening for the information or simply the thoughts we consume. We are often challenged and influenced by the people around us. As they say, we are the average of five close relationships in our life. The effects of all these relationships affect our mental health. This book is a detox for the mind.

The author is surprisingly honest throughout the book. I found that very helpful. I was able to connect with many situations narrated in the book because of this. The large chunk of this book is dedicated to building self-love. It is the base of every good relationship. A part of me always hated myself. Every failure in professional and personal life grew this hatred step by step. This self-hatred impacted greatly in my self-esteem. To repair our deep-rooted inhibitions and beliefs, we must challenge ourselves to bring change. This book was a good guide for this herculean task. It is slow-paced and systematic, changing my beliefs one by one.

Every chapter draws inspiration from the author’s life itself. This book teaches how to break, build and push various boundaries in our life. We can fill the widened boundaries with happiness. After all, it is what we all crave for.

Overall this is an excellent guide for self-love and self-care.
46 reviews
October 27, 2020
Book: The Boundary Is You: A Guide To Creating Boundaries By Loving Yourself More
Author: Chany G. Rosengarten
Genre: Non-Fiction
Category: Self-help
Language: English
Format: Kindle
Page count: 80 pages
My Rating: 4.5/5

In life, there are times when people want to cross your boundaries. What you have in you is the ability to set boundaries, assert boundaries and fight for your boundaries. You are the boundary. The book teaches how the boundary is really you, being you. It also teaches you who you are and loving who you are because in the end you are the only one in the world who matters most.

The method to learn about loving yourself into becoming the boundary that the author has shared is called "LAND method". The method is based on ourselves and we need not to fight against ourselves. It is a four step process:
1. Love: How can you love and accept yourself in a situation?
2. Authority: What is the power you have within the situation?
3. Negotiation: How can you communicate honestly, in a way that gets your needs met?
4. Direction: Where are you headed in your life? How would you ideally like your life to be?

The book contains eight short chapters:

The first chapter is about loving and accepting yourself.
The second chapters explains about boundary, what it is, its importance, why it is needed and how it is related to self love.
The third chapter discusses how to start loving yourself: stop negativity, expectations, focusing on change.
The fourth chapter is about achieving autonomy (self-reliance) and relates it with boundary. It also emphasizes on recognising your powers and controlling yourself.
The fifth chapter is about taking care of yourself i.e. negotiation. Negotiation is asking for your needs, clearly and concisely. It is trusting that you deserve to have your needs met. You know that you have a responsibility to advocate for yourself, and so you do.
The sixth chapter is about knowing your desires, choosing your path and pursuing it.
The seventh chapter is about bringing back your sense of self.
The eighth chapter discusses the outcomes when boundaries disappear.

This book is for them who don't love themselves or are discontent with their living. You must live a life in which you love yourself.

Trust me whatever details I have provided above is just the visible part of an iceberg. The book holds a lot more to be learnt and to be explored.

Thank You.
115 reviews1 follower
October 26, 2020
BOOK ALERT
THE BOUNDARY IS YOU: A Guide to Creating Boundaries by Loving Yourself More
BY: CHANY G. ROSENGARTEN
NO. OF PAGES- 80
FORMAT: KINDLE
RATINGS: 4/5
ABOT THE BOOK
As seen in the New York Times International Edition, USA Today, and featured on iHeartRadio, internationally acclaimed bestselling author Chanu Rosengarten gives us the next Brene Brown-esque easy-to-read, self-help book, to give you boundaries in a fast and simple way.
“Chany shares her knowledge and wisdom with so much love and compassion.”
The Boundary is You will teach you how to create boundaries by becoming the boundary yourself. If you’ve tried making boundaries with others, you already know the process is painful, difficult, or impossible.
Making boundaries leaves you in the vulnerable position of either needing to fight hard for your rights to establish boundaries or be trampled. If the people you need to make boundaries with were the most accommodating people, chances are you wouldn’t need to make boundaries with them at all.
But there is a better way.
If you are ready to establish boundaries, and you want to do it in an easy, pain-free way, this book is for you.
If you are ready for relationship that respects and support you, this book will be your guide.
You’ll learn how to understand the power you have in every relationship.
You’ll discover how to love and accept yourself even if you’re not perfect or have made mistakes.
You’ll take back your authority to make important choices in your life.
You’ll take back your authority to make important choices in your life.
You’ll gain a clear method for getting your needs met.
You’ll have direction in your life, knowing what you want and getting it.
MY VIEWS
A special thanks to the author for such a wonderful book. This helps in life, in real life you need to keep boundaries and its not easy, but after reading the book it reduces the pressure. The book is really good and helpful. The language is lucid and easy to understand. This is one of the best self-help books.
274 reviews6 followers
November 2, 2020
Book's name- The Boundary Is You: A guide to creating boundaries in your relationships by loving yourself more

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In all of our lives there are some boundaries, some people create those boundaries in their life and sometimes boundaries created itself in our life. Those boundaries affect our relation too sometimes good and sometimes worst.

"The Boundary is You" written by Chany G. Rosengarten by reading this book you can get to know about those boundaries.

Here in this book the author talks about that how can we create boundaries in our relationships by loving ourselves. This book realy inspire and guides me a lot about self love.

By reading this book I get to know that this book is the view of the author's life that how she found self love at a time when she felt that everything was happening just beyond her thoughts. How she broke that boundaries and occupy self love in her life.

Relationship boundary is really hard to manage sometimes it gives you immense happiness and sometimes it gives you anexity, hatered and negitivity.

What's in this book?
👉It tells you how to set boundaries around you.

👉Self love

👉Self respect

👉Self care

👉Talks about how to cure yourself.

The writing styles is too good which can be easliy understandable by all.

Editing and formatting is also too good.

Book cover is simple yet attractive.

And at last I would like to appreciate an author for her great work. In today's generation their is lack of self love. This book will help all the persons to broke their old boundaries and create a new boundaries of self love.

I would also like to recommend this book to all the youths, teeangers and all.
This book is for you all to develop self love in your life.
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104 reviews6 followers
October 27, 2020
“Your boundary is you. Your boundary just is. It’s not negotiable.”

Author: Chany G. Rosengarten
Format: Kindle edition
Genre: Self Help

Summary:
Sometimes we stand at such a position in life that we don’t seem to give us the priority and the credit to how much we have survived. We think, we owe to all the people who had been there or are in life. We undermine our success and seem to preoccupy ourselves with how much faults we made or how much failure we faced. And somewhere out there we forget to love ourselves and make space for people who wants to break the fine line of our basic boundaries. And we can’t simply deny them.

This book is about boundaries. Boundaries that are naturally built and the boundaries that are necessary for ourselves to go on with the life. The author has simply divided the book into eight chapters. talking about Boundaries. Self-love, Autonomy, Acceptance. Negotiations, Directions, Sense of Self and Codependency.

This talks about this 'codepency' issue that many people are addicted to. It talks about the negativity and motivation that we often face in our busy life; sometimes we unknowingly surround ourselves with toxicity.

This book tells how to train ourselves to push through discomfort until we come through the other side, regardless of how long it takes.
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The author takes an optimistic approach to make us aware to take every chance and to drop every fear, to positively influence our domain and triumph in life.
It's a highly-recommended self-help read.
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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
141 reviews2 followers
October 26, 2020
✔️ Book's name- The Boundary Is You: A guide to creating boundaries in your relationships by loving yourself more

✔️Author's name- Chany G. Rosengarten

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The book contains total of 80 pages.

The boundary is you is a self-help book that is narrated in a serene and well-composed manner.
Working in corporate world is extremely difficult. It is a self help book that works as guide to maintain morals and ethics in today's world .



The plot is well constructed and the author has done a great job to boost a person because motivation, inspiration is very important in everyone's life.

A mixture of motivation, inspiration ,this story is everything a reader will look for in a book.

The language used by the author is quite lucid.

Overall, it is an adventurous read that you shouldn’t miss if you love reading motivational books.

A good book with the short read.

a. The way the author connected the stories with the reader.
b. The narration was clear, simple, and to-the-point.
c. The language used is lucid and easy to understand.
Overall this is an insightful read, that provokes the reader to give a thought on how the self help.
188 reviews4 followers
November 2, 2020
Title - The Boundary Is You
Author - Chany G. Rosengarten
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There are many diffrent boundary for doing anything in our life. Some boundaries are which we set and some are set by our world , family , any many more.

In this book the author is talking about the boundaries in relationship. Boundaries in relationship can make it the best or worst so choosing the right boundaries is must. Author suggest many things and teaches exactly how and where should we keep boundaries to make our relationship the best and also which one to avoid so that relationship would not be ruined.

The book is a self view of author that how she found her love so many can relate it to their own life and can understand it easily.

The book is quite engaging but atleast it doesn't make you bore. We can consider it as a slow read. But I definitely loved reading it and I would recommend it to all.
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1) The cover and the title of the book is nice and attractive.
2) The book is very well thought and framed.
3) The language used by the author is simple and easily understandable.
4) The flow of the book is well paced.
5) Overall, an amazing read.
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I recommend this book to all.
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824 reviews98 followers
September 7, 2020
You can have boundaries on your time. You don’t have to give it all away.
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The Boundary Is You is A guide to creating boundaries in your relationships by loving yourself more by Chany G. Rosengarten.
It's an in depth view on the author's life and how she found self love at a time where she felt everything was falling apart.
The main term, "Boundary" here depicts a view on self love that I've rarely seen elaborated to such an extent in other books. Although some things mentioned are general ideas that most of us may know, others are new.
I love the LAND method. It's simple yet can be effective if used in the right way and with the correct mindset and aim.
Like I always say, different self help books impact people differently but what's most important is when the author of the book (like this one) weaves their life story and explains how the steps taken by them proved effective.
Maybe just one thing is enough to change someone else's life, but unless you read their stories you'll never know.
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Rated 9/10
Melina L.
405 reviews5 followers
November 3, 2020
Kudos to author to come up with great book

How many times we think that we are loosing our true selves in the process of living. Do we really happy in that process.
First of all let me gaze the gorgeous cover of the book which is truly mesmerizing and catchy. The book is engaging and really live upto the expectations. The author has really use the experience to break down the monotony and mundane routine. This book comes with bifurcation of chapters which are really crisp and to the point.
I would suggest everyone to read this book and want to thank the writer to come up with such an exemplary book. !!
Must read book after a long time
557 reviews5 followers
November 3, 2020
Kudos to author to come up with great book

How many times we think that we are loosing our true selves in the process of living. Do we really happy in that process.

First of all let me gaze the gorgeous cover of the book which is truly mesmerizing and catchy. The book is engaging and really live upto the expectations. The author has really use the experience to break down the monotony and mundane routine. This book comes with bifurcation of chapters which are really crisp and to the point.

I would suggest everyone to read this book and want to thank the writer to come up with such an exemplary book.!!

Must read book after a long time
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197 reviews28 followers
July 18, 2023
Finally a book on boundaries that clarified that little piece I always felt that I was missing. Every book I would read on this subject seemed to sail right over something that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Always with plenty of examples of people dealing with massive boundary violations - what about day to day life? What about that inner part of yourself that seems to say something's not quite right but not really wrong either? And then what are you supposed to do with it? This book actually answered that for me. The boundary really is you. It really doesn't need to be more complicated than that.
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117 reviews22 followers
September 24, 2022
If you're struggling with self sacrifice, wrapping your head around the novel concept of boundaries, have trouble sticking up for yourself and/or saying no; then I highly recommend you read or listen to this book. The author speaks from the heart as she shares personal and highly relatable stories tackling these monumental life changing concepts in simple easy to understand terms. Very enjoyable listening to such an important message: Choose your own life, starting right now. You are worth it.
3 reviews
October 29, 2021
Awesomeness!!

This book was truly an inspiration. It is like you have a really caring, down to earth friend talking to you with empathy and compassion. Appreciate the opportunity to read this book.
37 reviews
October 26, 2020
This book is a very beautiful attempt to teach why and how to respect our need and love ourselves. It's beautifully pendown, with lucid writing and gripping start.
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January 24, 2022
The boundary is you is my book, so obviously, I love it.
6 reviews1 follower
March 28, 2022
empowering!

Positive words to live by and a reminder to be who we are created to be not someone else’s flawed perception of who we are
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