Allison Bottke - Setting Boundaries® with Food: Six Steps to Lose Weight, Gain Freedom, and Take Back Your Life

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 right now 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 better than the parents of those without boundaries. Sometimes it feels as though the setting of these boundaries is more difficult than living with the anxiety, stress, and heartache, but thats not so. 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 & Jessica Everson,

authors of Sex, Lies, and the Media and Sex, Lies, and High School

Lack of boundaries with adult children is a worldwide epidemic with catastrophic consequences. Allison shares not only her experience as a parent who has traveled this painful road, but gives readers concrete tools to stop the insanity and start living a life of hope and healing. Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children is destined to be the official resource of hope for countless parents and grandparents.

Heather Gemmen Wilson,

author of Startling Beauty: My Journey from Rape to Restoration

Allison Bottke has stepped forward in a courageous, straight-from-the-heart manner and dealt with an issue that has plagued parents since the dawn of time: setting (and enforcing) boundaries for rebellious adult children. Having been not only a parent but a pastor who faced this issue countless times, I am excited to see that a mother who has wrestled with demons to see her child delivered has written a heartfelt yet practical book of advice and encouragement that will bless each and every one who reads it.

Kathi Macias,

author of 20 books, including Mothers of the Bible Speak to Mothers Today

Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children is an incredible resource, an absolutely must-have book for parents with adult children. It will help you so much to understand where your adult children are in their own journey and how to transition in a healthy way in setting new boundaries. This book will inspire you, encourage you, and prepare you to handle this season in the parenting process.

Pastor Chuck Angel,

Harvest Church, Fort Worth, TX

To some readers this book will arrive just in time, releasing them from the bondage of a present crisis. To others, this book will serve as a how-to manual when the unwanted crisis comes knocking. To many, this timely teaching will serve as a mirror, exposing lies and revealing the truth. But Allison Bottke doesnt leave us sulking at our reflection. In Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children , she places within our hands a prescription. When filled and faithfully followed, her writing will bring hope and healing.

Pastor Steve Hill,

Heartland World Ministries Church, Las Colinas, TX

I have talked with many parents who know they need boundaries with both their adult and adolescent kids. They are apprehensive about setting limits and fearful of enforcing them. Readers will identify with Allison. She offers many helpful suggestions on establishing and implementing workable boundaries that will bring harmony back to families. I recommend her book to all parents.

Pastor Larry Bodmer,

Director of Biblical Counseling, Overlake Christian Church, Redmond, WA

Setting Boundaries with Difficult People

In her typical insightful fashion, Allison Bottke has given us a valuable and practical guide for 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,

Bestselling Author and Managing Director, Creative Enterprises Studio

Once again Allison Bottke has written an amazing masterpiece. Setting Boundaries with Difficult People is a challenge in life that everyone has to deal with. It is obvious this book was bathed in fervent prayer. Once you begin to read this book, you will not want to put it down.

Sharon Hill,

Founder, OnCall Prayer.org and author of the OnCall Prayer Journal

Setting Boundaries with Difficult People touches the heart of the matter in this inspired expression of help and hope for all who face challenging relationships in life. The authors ability to weave together the story, the resources, and the Christian worldview is brilliant!

Suellen Roberts,

Founder & President, Christian Women in Media Association

Unless you live in complete isolation as a hermit (and who does?), you have some difficult people in your life (family, coworkers, professional colleagues, friends, you name it). In easy-to-understand, straightforward teaching, Allison Bottke gives readers critical relationship tools in Setting Boundaries with Difficult People , providing excellent insight and step-by-step action for every reader. I highly recommend this book. In fact, you should probably buy at least two of themone for yourself and one to give to someone else. It is that good.

Terry Whalin,

editor and writer

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. We all have people in our lives who challenge us, and yet God loves them as much as He loves us! 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

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SETTING BOUNDARIES WITH FOOD

Copyright 2012 by Allison Bottke

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bottke, Allison.

Setting boundaries with food / Allison Bottke.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references

ISBN 978-0-7369-2694-2 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-7369-4290-4 (eBook)

1. FoodReligious aspectsChristianity. I. Title.

BR115.N87B68 2012

241'.68dc23

2011051600

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