What to Do When Parenting Gets Painfully Complicated
Are your adult child's mental, emotional, and physical health issues driving you to despair? Are you tempted to bail your son or daughter out of yet another impossible circumstance?
When your child has reached (or long since passed) the point of independence, it's difficult to know what your 'help' as a parent should look like.
Following her bestselling book Setting Boundaries®with Your Adult Children, Allison Bottke offers an in-depth guide to help you connect with your adult child, and to build your confidence, knowledge, and hope as your child walks through challenging situations such as...
drug addictionmental and emotional disabilitiesmilitary trauma and PTSDpersonality disordersfinancial troubledepression and bipolardivorceincarceration...and so much moreTake a step back and let this book help you develop effective strategies to truly help your adult child-without sacrificing your sanity.
Writing from firsthand experience, Allison Bottke identifies the lies that kept her, and ultimately her son, in bondage-and how she overcame them. Additional real-life stories from other parents appear throughout the text. A tough-love guide to coping with dysfunctional adult children, Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children will empower families by offering hope and healing through S.A.N.I.T.Y.-a six-step program to help parents regain control in their homes and in their lives. S = STOP Enabling, STOP Blaming Yourself, and STOP the Flow of Money A = Assemble a Support Group N = Nip Excuses in the Bud I = Implement Rules/Boundaries T = Trust Your Instincts Y = Yield Everything to God
Allison Bottke, CBA best-selling author of A Stitch in Time, crafts a savvy yet thought-provoking story that examines the relative importance of family and fame. In One Little Secret, a housewife's idyllic world is threatened by a Hollywood dream that bubbles to the surface. This imaginative tale will captivate listeners with its well-draw characters, witty style, and soul-searching theme.
Allison Bottke is the creative force behind the best-selling God Allows U-Turns series and ministry. Her first novel follows Dee Decker who in the past year lost 150 pounds and gained a whole new wardrobe filled with designer shoes'and became a Christian. But a job offer could cause her past and present to collide in a flash of Manolo Blahniks and Prada handbags. Dee thought she had it all figured out'but can a person really be both fashionable and faithful?
