by Allison | Feb 14, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People, Wisdom & Resources
GET READY…Keeping Your Eye on the Goal! It’s important to know our ultimate goal, no matter what we set out to accomplish. Runners who enter the annual Boston Marathon know if they want to successfully complete the marathon they will ultimately have to run...
by Allison | Feb 12, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Enabling, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People
I’d like to believe that most difficult people do not intentionally set out to be difficult, that the people who do cause us pain don’t wake up every morning and say, “Today I’m going to be as difficult as humanly possible and make life miserable for...
by Allison | Dec 19, 2012 | Adult Children, Allison Bottke's Blog, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People, Wisdom & Resources
The Seven Days Until Christmas It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas … the time of year when all the family members gather, those we can’t wait to see…and others we wish we didn’t have to see. There,...
by Allison | Dec 11, 2012 | Adult Children, Allison Bottke's Blog, Co-Dependency, Enabling, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People, Setting Boundaries with Food, VIP Guest Blogs, Wisdom & Resources, WLS
New Material NOW AVAILABLE for Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children I know many of you can relate to walking in the valleys of trial, tribulation, and testing this past year. I know it’s been a hard year for many of us as I read your e-mail, and pray with and...
by Allison | Aug 9, 2012 | Adult Children, Allison Bottke's Blog, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People
I felt like one of those aluminum Christmas trees folks had when I was a kid, the kind with the rotating color wheel that sat on the floor underneath it, projecting an array of colors on the tree’s metallic branches. It was quite a spectacle to see the tree change...
by Allison | Mar 9, 2012 | Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People, Wisdom & Resources
Many of us struggle to set healthy boundaries and find SANITY in the challenging relationships in our lives, myself included. There are times when it seems that no matter how hard we try nothing works. Lately, I’ve been getting a great deal of email from desperate...
