Allison Bottke - Setting Boundaries® for Women: Six Steps to Saying No, Taking Control, and Finding Peace

In 2008, author Allison Bottke launched her Setting Boundaries series of books with the publication of Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children . That book has now sold more than 100,000 copies and has helped countless parents deal with the fallout of having adult children who have never taken responsibility for their own lives.

In the years since she wrote Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children , Allison has added these important titles to her series:

Setting Boundaries with Your Aging Parents

Setting Boundaries with Difficult People

Setting Boundaries with Food

This new book, Setting Boundaries for Women , encourages you to take charge of your life by implementing boundaries in your workplace, home, church, and personal relationships. As in the previous books in the Setting Boundaries series, Allison offers the valuable SANITY acronym to help you regain your sanity by setting appropriate boundaries and sticking to them.

Allison Bottke writes from the heart. She digs deep into her own experience with the complex issues people face daily. In Allison, youll find a compassionate friendand an author whose words can help you change your life.

High Praise for Allison Bottkes Setting Boundaries books

Setting Boundaries for Women

I can so relate to all the Setting Boundaries books written by Allison. I find myself on the pages of each book. They are so down to earth, practical, and applicable to living life today... especially this book!

Sharon Hill

prayer coach and author of the OnCallPrayer Journal

If you are looking for a clear, concise, and effective way to improve your life, look no further. Setting Boundaries for Women puts you in the drivers seat in lifeAllison Bottke does an outstanding job of stripping away those stressors by offering a truly effective how-to guide on taming our most destructive emotions, which self-sabotage our peace and joy.

Tracey Mitchell, HDD

author of Downside Up

This is a must-read book for women today!

Dawn Irons, M.A., LPC

I found the entire book to be encouraging, leaving me with powerful tools in my arsenal to fight the temptation to live without boundaries. Thank you Allison for the SANITY plan!

Jill Angel

Soul Sisters Womens Ministry at Harvest Church, Fort Worth, TX

In Setting Boundaries for Women , Allison reveals how boundaries are not only healthy, but fruit of a godly life. Allison helps us to identify the areas of our life that seem out of control, and gives simple, practical steps to implement healthy boundaries from a godly perspective, with real-life examples.

Dana Pollard

worship leader, songwriter, and recording artist of Grace for Eternity

Im giving copies of this book to my girlfriends, mom, adult daughters, and the many women I care about in my life because I know this is a resource that can help us rise above our circumstances and live a more abundant life.

Ellie Kay

Americas Family Financial Expert and best-selling author

Had I understood the content and action plans of Setting Boundaries for Women in my earlier years, my life would have been healthier and happierKeep this book handyits a vital resource to help you throughout your life.

Jennifer Strickland

speaker and author of Beautiful Lies and Girl Perfect

Setting Boundaries for Women isnt just a book; its a valuable tool to help break free of unhealthy conditioning and relationships that lack discipline. Allison Bottke delivers guidance in a digestible and practical manner for best application. Its a must-read for any woman!

Wendie Pett

talk show host and fitness and wellness expert

Setting Boundaries for Women lays out an easy to follow guide to help navigate difficult and challenging relationships and events that are common to us all. Allison is an accomplished author, an inspirational voice, and a role model to real people, in a real world, with real challenges. Her words will bring hope, light, and peace to multitudes of lives!

Pastor Tiz Huch

DFW New Beginnings Church, Dallas, TX

Every page of Setting Boundaries for Women made me think of someone who needs to read this, then I realized she was already reading it. Me. This may be my favorite book yet in the life-changing Setting Boundaries series.

Donna Swan

Bible study group leader

Im recommending this book to women who need to stop and smell the roses. Dont just escape and have fun, but let boundaries open your spiritual eyes to why youve been blessed in the first place. See your value in Gods eyes!

Ellen Kay

event planner and former flight attendant

I was forty years old before I learned there are such things as boundariesmuch less that I could enforce them in my life as a daughter, wife, mom, and friend! If only I had Allisons book Setting Boundaries for Women back then. Fortunate is the woman who reads this book now and puts the authors empowering principles into actionPick up a copy for yourself and for a friend.

Karen OConnor

author of When God Answers Your Prayers: How God Comes Through in the Nick of Time

Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children

This book will launch a brand-new beginning in your life. You may feel you are in a desert place as you struggle with a parenting crisis, but be alert! Theres a stream in the wastelandand you can begin making hope-filled choices that will forever change your future for the better.

Carol Kent

speaker and author of When I Lay My Isaac Down and A New Kind of Normal

No one knows better the pain of dealing with adult children who have lost their way than the parents of those without boundaries. Allison Bottke, writing through her own hurt and experience, has compiled a masterpiece of advice. She doesnt just tell you or show you how its done. She walks along beside you.

Eva Marie Everson and Jessica Everson

authors of Sex, Lies, and the Media

Setting Boundaries with Your Aging Parents

This book is written in the same spirit of hope, generosity, and faith that allowed the readers of Allisons first book in the Setting Boundaries series to find a sane and safe place of recovery, optimism, and healing. It is an inspiring and important addition to the body of literature that addresses the problem and pain of adult children dealing with difficult parents. It is stunningly integrated with the importance of understanding that God is the ultimate authority, overriding both societal and psychological beliefs.

Mark Sichel, LCSW

author of Healing from Family Rifts

Setting Boundaries with Difficult People

Well organized, powerfully written, thoughtful, challenging, and helpful for everyday living, this excellent volume is a keepera reference youll refer to repeatedly as you encounter those inevitable aggravating relationships. Get it. Read it. Use it! And celebrate your less-stressful life.

Mary Hollingsworth

author and managing director, Creative Enterprises Studio

Allison Bottke has written a helpful and inspiring book on how to live with and manage difficult relationships at home, at work, in our community. So the task is to be kind, loving, grace filled and firm about how we wish to be treated. After reading this book youll be well-equipped to do all of these things.

Karen OConnor

author of Help, Lord! Im Having a Senior Moment

Setting Boundaries with Food

Many folks who have had difficult upbringings turn to something to fill them all the way up, such as food, sex, admiration, or success. Allison peels away the layers of why we reach for that piece of chocolate cake and why it seems to have power over us. And then she adeptly points us to the One who can fill us all the way upJesus.

Mary DeMuth

author of Thin Places

To all the special faith-filled women God has placed in my life.