by Allison | Jan 1, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Food, Wisdom & Resources
For years my life was filled with a never-ending stream of drama, chaos, and crisis that revolved around the life of my drug-addicted son—it was absolute insanity—and it was not how God intended for me (or any parent) to live. Following the Six Steps to SANITY helped...
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 13, 2012 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Food, Wisdom & Resources
It was great talking today with “This is the Day” radio host Nancy Turner on Moody radio Chicago. Tomorrow, another dynamic woman in Christian radio, Debbie Chavez, will be interviewing me about the same hot button topic—Setting Boundaries with Food, the newest book...
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...
