“When you react to something that someone says or does, you may have a problem with boundaries.  If someone is able to cause havoc by doi...

“Nothing clarifies boundaries more than forgiveness.  To forgive someone means to let him off the hook… When you refuse to forgive someon...

“An important thing to remember about boundaries is that they exist, and they will affect us, whether or not we communicate them.”  (Boun...

“…proactive people do not demand rights, they live them,.  Power is not something you demand or deserve, it is something you express.  Th...

“You cannot change others… What you can do is influence others… you must change yourself so that their destructive patterns no longer wor...

“I can’t grow for you; only you can.”  (Boundaries, p. 88) The Bible is the best book for teaching us how to establish healthy boundaries...

“Just because we have not been taught these principles of life and relationships does not mean they will not rule. We need to know the pr...

“The heart of God seems to beat especially close to the victim of trauma:  ‘He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted.’  (Isaiah 61:1)...

“We set limits and risk losing a relationship” “We don’t set limits and remain a prisoner to the wishes of another” The quotes above from...

“They desperately need to learn to listen to the boundaries of others to help them observe their own.” (Boundaries, p 59) Wow!  That one ...

Setting up healthy boundaries around your life is an important step, but it’s only the first step.  You have to make a commitment to hono...

“People with boundary problems usually have distorted attitudes about responsibility.  They feel that to hold people responsible for thei...

“We need to have spaces inside ourselves where we can have a feeling, an impulse, or a desire, without acting it out.”  (Boundaries p 46)...

“There is always safety in the truth, whether it be knowing God’s truth or knowing the truth about yourself.” (Boundaries, p. 37) I absol...

The only way we can know how to set healthy boundaries around our lives is by following God’s direction through His Word.  I want to enco...

When you are living with a family member who battles addiction there are mindsets, stinkin’ thinkin’, that can be frustrating if you have...

I’m ready!  I’ve been desperate to find this path for over 20 years.  Desperate, but not really looking.  Instead I’ve held onto denial a...

A year ago I took an amazing online class by Brene’ Brown.  In the class we read through her books “Daring Greatly” and “Rising Strong”. ...

I believe that one of the biggest problems people have with God is that He allows horrible things to happen on this earth.  We can’t just...