Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

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Additionally, she has appeared on the Today Show as one of the leading voices in the Christian community. Overcome the frustrating cycle of ineffective boundary-setting with realistic scripts and practical strategies to help you communicate, keep, and implement healthier patterns. even though i didn't relate to all of the situations she was talking about, there was still so much to take from this. She provided many helpful analogies for why this is good practice, such as the fact that you wouldn't give just anyone the keys to your home and if people who you did trust to have the keys were using them in a way that was not intended, you would take them away.

Overall, I finished the book with the impression that the author has valuable insight and experience to offer. When discussing people who won't respect boundaries, she stated, "The problem isn't the boundary, it's that the person won't respect the boundary.

Reading through this lens, I saw how Terkeurst uses the pain from her experience to help people develop more meaningful relationships. And I didn’t even know boundaries could exist until I was in counseling a few years ago because I had become so deeply angry to the point of resentful. It feels like it's written to a very niche audience (wives struggling to draw boundaries in regard to their repeatedly unfaithful husbands), but marketed to a much broader audience. Lysa TerKeurst is president of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the New York Times best-selling author of Univited, The Best Yes, Unglued, Made to Crave, and 18 other books. Learn the difference between a destructive pattern and a difficult season with this free resource, “Is This Normal?

Their advice is Don’t have reactions with emotions or really ever react in your humanity if you do you are guilty of sinning as the abuse victim. Every relationship mentioned was a friendship or her husband, so they weren’t even family members, coworkers, or someone else that appeared in her life without a decision being made on her part. A book containing valuable principles I look forward to putting into practice to improve my relationships.One of my favorite points that TerKeurst made was her thorough discussion about guarding the access that people have to your heart and making sure that their level of access is in proportion to their ability to be trustworthy with that access.

To keep setting up boundaries in life and relationships that are going to keep me on the path He has for me. by Lysa TerKeurst | Nov 17, 2022 | Blog, Good Boundaries and GoodbyesDo you have a relationship in your life where you know something is wrong, but you can’t figure out what to do? Develop practical scripts and strategies for effective communication and implementation of healthier boundaries. I also got the sense from this book that Terkeurst is here to fight for her readers and their well-being.Terkeurst’s book feels tailored to processing emotions and developing/maintaining close relationships (or letting them go). Good Boundaries and Goodbyes is not the kind of book one necessarily goes out of their way to read for entertainment or enjoyment. Recently, my wife added Good Boundaries and Goodbyes by Lysa Terkeurst to our shelves, so I naturally added it to my list of books to read. i HIGHLY recommend this book to Christians no matter their age, or if they're currently struggling with this or not.

My view on boundaries in general has changed over the last several months, but this book was not necessarily helpful in that endeavor.TerKeurst also provides scripture verses to back up the fact that we can still be a Christian, and have boundaries in place. Instead, Terkeurst comes across like a therapist for whatever the reader is going through in their relationships.