Setting Boundaries with Negative Thoughts and Painful Memories: How to Stop Hoarding Your Hurts

by Allison Bottke

Overview

Find Lasting Freedom from Past Emotional Pain

If you wait long enough, difficult and traumatic experiences from your past will go away on their own...right?

Except they won't. Time doesn't heal all wounds.

Instead, we hoard our hurts. We rehash our sorrows and wonder how they could have been prevented. This keeps us from making brand-new memories and embracing the richer life we crave.

Now is the time for setting healthy boundaries with the past. Allison Bottke will help you...

• tame the triggers that stir painful memories by replacing negative thoughts with biblical hope
• identify lingering communication issues so you can release them and grow in your relationships
• take six simple S.A.N.I.T.Y. steps to find peace in the midst of emotional chaos

Don't let the past dictate your present feelings. Follow this achievable advice and discover the freedom your captive heart desperately needs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780736962421
Publisher:	Harvest House Publishers
Publication date:	03/28/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	457 KB

About the Author

Allison Bottke is the award-winning author of the acclaimed Setting Boundaries® series, which includes Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children, Setting Boundaries with Your Aging Parents, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People, Setting Boundaries with Food, Setting Boundaries for Women, and The Young Women’s Guide to Setting Boundaries. She is the founder of the SANITY Support Group, an outreach based on the Setting Boundaries® series (more than 150,000 sold). Her other books include the God Answers Prayers series, and she is the founder and general editor of more than a dozen volumes in the popular God Allows U-Turns® anthology. She has written or edited more than 30 nonfiction and fiction books, and is a frequent guest on national radio and TV programs. Allison lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

www.settingboundariesbooks.com

Awards

Winner of the Selah Award for Best Book of the Year for Setting Boundaries with Food in 2013

Allison Bottke is the award-winning author of the acclaimed Setting Boundaries® series, which includes Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children, Setting Boundaries with Your Aging Parents, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People, Setting Boundaries with Food, Setting Boundaries for Women, and The Young Women’s Guide to Setting Boundaries. She is the founder of the SANITY Support Group, an outreach based on the Setting Boundaries® series (more than 150,000 sold). Her other books include the God Answers Prayers series, and she is the founder and general editor of more than a dozen volumes in the popular God Allows U-Turns® anthology. She has written or edited more than 30 nonfiction and fiction books, and is a frequent guest on national radio and TV programs. Allison lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

www.settingboundariesbooks.com

Awards

Winner of the Selah Award for Best Book of the Year for Setting Boundaries with Food in 2013

Table of Contents

Foreword Bonnie Keen 7

Before You Begin 13

1 What Is SANITY? 23

2 The Six Steps to SANITY 31

3 Stinkin' Thinkin' 49

4 Tire Role of Painful Memories 59

5 Making Sense of Thoughts and Memories 71

6 Let's Talk About Trauma 79

7 Convoluted Communication 95

8 Childhood Chaos; Adult Confusion 109

9 Taming the Triggers 123

10 Boundary Basics 131

11 Identifying the Issues 143

12 Claiming Your Identity; Understanding Your Value 157

13 Matters of the Heart 169

14 Derailing a Negative Train of Thought 183

15 The Secret Power of SANITY 191

Resources 202

Notes 203