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    Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
    Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
    Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
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    Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

    Written by Allison Bottke

    Narrated by Margaret Strom

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    About this audiobook

    Writing from firsthand experience, Allison Bottke identifies the lies that kept her, and ultimately her son, in bondage-and how she overcame them. Additional real-life stories from other parents appear throughout the text.
    A tough-love guide to coping with dysfunctional adult children, Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children will empower families by offering hope and healing through S.A.N.I.T.Y.-a six-step program to help parents regain control in their homes and in their lives.

    S = STOP Enabling, STOP Blaming Yourself, and STOP the Flow of Money
    A = Assemble a Support Group
    N = Nip Excuses in the Bud
    I = Implement Rules/Boundaries
    T = Trust Your Instincts
    Y = Yield Everything to God
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 24, 2016
    ISBN9781515976295
    Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
    Author

    Allison Bottke

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

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    • 4/5
      I thought this book was great Carmen Vann ty
    • 2/5
      She lost me when she started quoting Bill O'Reilly.
    • 3/5
      The book has a lot of good information for those struggling with adult children who are acting in destructive ways. However, the author's viewpoint is very black and white. She has little capacity for shades of gray. I also thought she could have toned down the religious bias.