The coronavirus pandemic has brought new and challenging interpersonal situations into our lives. Each challenge is an opportunity to assert who we are, and what we truly need to live happy, healthy lives.

Have you recently walked away from a date or a conversation feeling uncomfortable or violated? Are you looking for ways to set limits with your spouse, kids, parents, or boss? This essential guide to setting and respecting boundaries is for anyone wanting to better understand themselves and others.

Just as a cut in our skin causes pain and injury, a breach of any of our physical, emotional, or sexual boundaries can be very harmful to our bodies and minds. We may need help to heal from past boundary violations, respect the boundaries of those around us, and learn how to set healthy limits for the future, particularly if we have a history of trauma, unhealthy relationships, addiction, or adverse childhood experiences. Drawing on decades of personal and professional experience as a therapist--as well as stories from others who have learned how to heal from serious boundary violations--Anne Katherine, MA, brings us an invaluable, foundational guide on the who, what, and why of boundaries. With nearly 100,000 copies sold, Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin has already helped thousands of readers stand up for themselves and nurture healthier relationship

Are Your Boundaries Being Violated?
Boundaries separate us from others physically and emotionally. In fact, they are essential for our mental and physical health as well as for developing healthy relationships. Yet every day, people's boundaries are violated by friends, family, or coworkers. Despite the importance of personal boundaries many people are unaware of how or when these very important lines are crossed.
Which of the following are boundary violations?
Esther tells Betty a secret Mary told her.
Your therapist invites you to go for coffee.
Your boss wants to know the details of your personal life.
Your boss asks you if you'd like a hug.
Mom tells little Debbie about her troubles with Dad.
Your new neighbor pats you on the bottom as he turns away.
Your mother makes a comment about your being overweight.
All but one of the above incidents violate boundaries (your boss asks you if you'd like a hug). In Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin, Anne Katherine explains what healthy boundaries are, how to recognize if your personal boundaries are being violated, and what you can do to protect yourself.
For anyone who has walked away from a conversation, a meeting, or a visit with others feeling violated and not understanding why, this is a book that can help.

From the acclaimed author of the perennial favorite Boundaries, Where to Draw the Line is a practical guide to establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries in many different situations.

With every encounter, we either demonstrate that we'll protect what we value or that we'll give ourselves away. Healthy boundaries preserve our integrity. Unlike defenses, which isolate us from our true selves and from those we love, boundaries filter out harm.

This book provides the tools and insights needed to create boundaries so that we can allow time and energy for the things that matter--and helps break down limiting defenses that stunt personal growth. Focusing on every facet of daily life--from friendships and sexual relationships to dress and appearance to money, food, and psychotherapy--Katherine presents case studies highlighting the ways in which individuals violate their own boundaries or let other people breach them. Using real-life examples, from self-sacrificing mothers to obsessive neat freaks, she offers specific advice on making choices that balance one's own needs with the needs of others.

Boundaries are the unseen structures that support healthy, productive lives. Where to Draw the Line shows readers how to strengthen them and hold them in place every day.

Over the past decade, 24-7 connectivity has given us not only convenience and fun but worries about privacy, intrusions into family time, and new compulsions -- from shopping to tweeting and cute cat watching. Anne Katherine, one of the first authors to bring healthy boundary setting to a mass audience, has now written a book on how to do this with technology. Rather than rejecting online life, Katherine shows readers how to make social media, smartphones, and other innovations work for, rather than against, them. Readers learn to protect themselves online -- from predators and data mining as well as from time-devouring friends and acquaintances -- with an emphasis on preserving and optimizing meaningful personal connections. Anyone who has ever wondered if their cute little gadget was actually an enemy invader will welcome Katherine's strategies for ensuring that your life is truly your own.

This book offers solutions to anyone who has felt victimized, ostracized or left behind by life.

Surprising as it may sound, many people take comfort in their own misery. Feeling too good for too long (or even feeling good at all) can be scary for people, explains Anne Katherine. Achievement creates anxiety. Intimacy leads to fear. Happiness produces uneasiness. Pleasure causes pain. The solution to this dilemma: what feels good has to be stopped. I call this an addiction to misery. Katherine's fascination and perspective book provides immediate assistance to those people who think they might be making choices that keep them at a carefully calibrated level of existence--beneath bliss and above despair.

You think you want to overeat?

You think you would choose the daily struggle against foods that call to you-or the nagging thoughts about dieting and restricting-or the endless loop of a firm decision in the morning and feeling like a failure by nightfall?

With 4 changes, you could find relief.

With just 4 changes, you could rearrange your whole relationship with yourself and with food. And this struggle has affected your relationship with yourself, hasn't it? You get down on yourself. You've lost some self respect. You think less of you. All because of this food and eating thing, right?

With just 4 changes, this could shift. Dramatically.

Imagine-if this whole issue were magically lifted, how much more peaceful your internal self would be. Imagine putting your attention to what really does matter in your life. What does really matter to you?

Free your time and energy for those pursuits by creating lasting peace with food.

Her daughter, her heart, lies frozen at death's door.

To save her, Robin must ride her soul to her very first human life-in Atlantis, just as Evil enters the world. 25,000 years ago, Robin had a gift. She could rescue people from the brink of death. But she made an enemy who has tracked her through time and killed her more than once.

Now, Evil is her husband.

Overnight, she must change everything about her life.

Her mind has to catch up with the reality-she must keep her daughter out of her husband's clutches.

Persuasive, attractive, wealthy, he easily bends others to his will-which is to destroy her. Her income is now limited to her paycheck, from a boss who is snowed by her husband. He has endless resources. She has integrity.

He'll hurt anyone to satisfy his drives. Her driving force is love. He has henchmen. She has a best friend. He looks reasonable. She looks over-reactive.

She married Evil. But she won't let her daughter pay that price.

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Greedy men stalk Yosemite, with a plan to ravage a benevolent People and 10,000 habitats.
Enter John Muir.
Enter President Theodore Roosevelt, who supports the greedy project.

With the one man who can save his beloved wilderness, John is entirely his typical audacious self.
And then he insults the President.

An historical fiction-the life story of a savagely beaten boy who becomes a flawed warrior.

Christian communities can fracture.

Despite their best intentions, groups within a church can split into factions, sometimes with the pastor or priest on one side of the rupture. The congregation can get stuck, outreach can suffer, and members can leave--taking their time, talents, and tithes with them.

Learn how leaders in your own church can be trained to mend the fractures.

Although we had no trouble exchanging donkeys for SUVs and stone tablets for ipads, we are still using last century's tools for this century's problems. Psychology has made significant advances. This book translates cutting-edge human systems research into warm words for a religious or spiritual community offering transformation for the souls in your sanctuaries.

Bring fresh wisdom into your congregation.

Members will become more resilient, groups will integrate differences on an unprecedented level, and you'll find creative solutions that will move your congregation forward. Your membership will gain skills that will serve all of you-not just in your sanctuaries, but in your homes and families.

Herein lies a path to fulfillment.

Anne Katherine's books include the best-sellers Boundaries, Where You End and I Begin; Where to Draw the Line; When Misery is Company; Your Appetite Switch; Lick It ; and Anatomy of a Food Addiction, 11 books in all.