by Allison | May 13, 2018 | Adult Children, Allison Bottke's Blog, Enabling, Uncategorized
A sneak-peak excerpt from… How to Connect with Your Troubled Adult Children by Allison Bottke (c) 2018 Releasing January 2019 from Harvest House Publishers. PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE NOW . This Isn’t How Life Is Supposed to Be It may sound silly, but I can’t begin to...
by Allison | Nov 19, 2015 | Adult Children, Allison Bottke's Blog, Co-Dependency, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People
Why Does Someone Live Like This? . I had just finished watching a movie on television and randomly clicked through the channels to see if anything else caught my eye. When I saw a woman teetering precariously atop a huge mound of junk, I stopped. She was nicely...
by Allison | Feb 4, 2014 | Adult Children, Allison Bottke's Blog, Co-Dependency, Enabling, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People
A reader sent me the following plea for help. My response might not have been what she expected. . Dear Allison: I am struggling with issues dealing with my mom and son. My son moved out when he was a teen, he didn’t want to follow the rules at home and was...
by Allison | Feb 22, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Co-Dependency, Enabling, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People, Wisdom & Resources
If we believe wholeheartedly that God is personally involved in our life, we would expect that He has something specific in mind for us to do while we’re here on earth. In their book, Being Christian, Exploring Where You, God, and Life Connect, authors Stephen...
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...
