Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

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there were actual times i did close the book and actually questioned if this was written directly for me. If you're ready to gain the biblical wisdom and confidence to finally set boundaries you can keep, let Good Boundaries and Goodbyes be your new go-to guide. Good Boundaries and Goodbyes is full of scriptural and therapeutic truth for navigating your most complicated relationships.

I appreciated the premise of this book, which was the importance of having good boundaries set in relationships, including in a Christian context. I found this seeming lack of basic Christian doctrine and understanding to be troubling in what should have been a great opportunity to point readers towards the Gospel.Receive therapeutic wisdom you can trust directly from Lysa’s Christian counselor Jim Cress, who weighs in throughout the book. She has scripture to back up everything and as she says in her podcast doesn’t “tell you what to think, but gives you a lot to think about”. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. My heart breaks for what she’s had to go through to acquire this knowledge and wisdom, and although I wish she had been spared the pain and agony of the many betrayals, her hard-earned lessons are a gift to those of us walking similar paths.

Some readers may find it incredibly empowering, but others - including myself - would get more out of other books on the same topic. Terkeurst does suggest that a person leave those who refuse to respect their boundaries, but this is a last resort. I ended my reading feeling more assure of who I am in Christ, and non-apologetic about the boundaries that need to be set in my life for the good of myself and little family as a whole. She has a way of being relatable with her experiences and advice that makes me feel seen/heard and like I could actually get through the things that are discussed in this book. Lysa TerKeurst is president of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the New York Times best-selling author of Univited, The Best Yes, Unglued, Made to Crave, and 18 other books.

In Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are, Lysa unpacks important principles and dispels destructive fallacies that will help you to honor God and flourish in life by setting healthy boundaries and embracing necessary goodbyes. I don't know much about her (this is the first book of hers that I have read), but it doesn't make sense to me how she has amassed such a collection of people in her close circle who have such significant issues with boundaries without there being a deeper issue there.