Boundaries

I'm reading a book right now called Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend. It's a really spectacular, life-changing book. I mean, we all try to solve problems, to make ourselves better people, but for many of us, the answer was there all along: in an extremely simple concept covered in this book.

For many readers, like me, Boundaries is a way to see how when you don't take responsibility for your own life, you hurt other people. So many of us have been taught that we won't experience the consequences for our own actions - and that our way is always the best way, no matter what anyone else says. This really opened my eyes not only to the truth to that statement, but the fact that when I act that way there are consequences - not only to me, but to other people as well.

But for the readers who really need this book, it means much, much more. It means learning to set limits with others who are harmful to us, learning that there is a difference between loving others - and breaking our backs for them. Boundaries teach us where to draw the line.

So whether you're line is too far in one direction or the other, I highly recommend this book.