Anne Katherine

From the acclaimed author of the perennial favorite Boundaries, Where to Draw the Line is a practical guide to establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries in many different situations. With every encounter, we either demonstrate that we’ll protect what we value or that we’ll give ourselves away. Healthy boundaries preserve our integrity. Unlike defenses, which isolate us from our true selves and from those we love, boundaries filter out harm. This book provides the tools and insights needed to create boundaries so that we can allow time and energy for the things that matter—and helps break down limiting defenses that stunt personal growth. Focusing on every facet of daily life—from friendships and sexual relationships to dress and appearance to money, food, and psychotherapy—Katherine presents case studies highlighting the ways in which individuals violate their own boundaries or let other people breach them. Using real-life examples, from self-sacrificing mothers to obsessive neat freaks, she offers specific advice on making choices that balance one’s own needs with the needs of others. Boundaries are the unseen structures that support healthy, productive lives. Where to Draw the Line shows readers how to strengthen them and hold them in place every day.

How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day

Where to Draw the Line

Where You End and I Begin

Boundaries

Featuring an honest account of the author's own struggles with food, "Anatomy of a Food Addiction" helps readers understand binge eating and plan a recovery through exercises, self-tests, and an examination of family issues. Illustrations.

The Brain Chemistry of Overeating

Anatomy of a Food Addiction

For those of us who have walked away from a conversation, meeting, or visit feeling violated and not understanding why, this book helps us recognize and set healthy boundaries. Boundaries bring order to our lives, strengthen our relationships with others and ourselves, and are essential to our mental and physical health. For those of us who have walked away from a conversation, meeting, or visit feeling violated and not understanding why, this book helps us recognize and set healthy boundaries. Real-life stories illustrate the ill effects of not setting limits and the benefits gained by respecting our own boundaries and those of others.

How To Recognize And Set Healthy Boundaries

Boundaries Where You End And I Begin

Over the past decade, 24/7 connectivity has given us not only convenience and fun but worries about privacy, interruptions while working or trying to enjoy family or other downtime, and new compulsions — from shopping to tweeting and cute-cat watching. Anne Katherine, one of the authors who brought boundary setting to a mass audience, has now written a book on how to set healthy boundaries with technology. The first of its kind, this resource doesn't suggest anyone go “cold turkey.” Instead, it helps people make social media, smart phones, and other innovations work for, rather than against, them. Readers learn to protect themselves online in every way — from predators and data mining as well as time-devouring friends and acquaintances — with an emphasis on preserving and optimizing meaningful personal connections. Anyone who has ever wondered if their cute little gadget was actually an enemy invader will welcome Katherine's strategies for ensuring “that your life is truly your own.”

Setting Limits to Preserve Your Focus, Privacy, Relationships, and Sanity

Boundaries in an Overconnected World

You're headed home, ready for the recliner, the remote, and couple of those brownies you hid in the blender. But you get home and there are no brownies - and no cookies, no candy, no chips or dip - as if an ant colony has swarmed through your kitchen and nibbled it bare. Two possibilities: She's on another diet. She's not on a diet. Either way, you're traveling toward turmoil and, possibly, big pots of cabbage soup, no desserts, and those strange Styrofoam crackers. What's a husband to do - or a mother, sister, best friend, lover, or partner? What can you do when you love someone who overeats? You can try controlling her (which rarely works) or you can get smart. Learn about the appetite switch and what causes it to get stuck in the "On" position. This essential change in thinking - away from dieting and toward balancing the 8 biochemicals that drive excess appetite - is the smart choice. It's also what makes the difference between failure and lasting success. In this book, you'll get factual, scientific information about the appetite switch and how you can be of tremendous help. You'll also discover how to get more of what you want. Anne Katherine's attunement to her clients has again pushed her to the cutting edge, where she has been finding solutions for overeaters for over 30 years. She is the author of Boundaries, Anatomy of Food Addiction, and How to Make Almost Any Diet Work. MA psychologist, Board-certified Regression Therapist, and Certified Eating Disorders Specialist, her program, Master Your Appetite, is available at www.masteryourappetite.com for anyone ready to fix the cause of overeating.

Lick It! Fix Her Appetite Switch

Penumbra 2 begins where Penumbra 1 ends, a continuation of the life of Priest Sammuel and the introduction of subsequent lives inhabited by the person we now know as Anne Katherine. Each life is layered carefully to illustrate how we are offered 2nd, 3rd, and even 4th chances to fix our past mistakes. While Sammuel, a respected and gifted priest, fought to save the life of his beloved niece, victim of a devious attack by veiled adversaries, the very nature of the continent of Atlantis-the climate, its culture, even the core of integrity that ran through all human life-was changing. Would Sammuel find the inner strength to stand against the renegade priests whose quest for power was threatening their world? Sarel was a humble tanner when the disciple came to his small village. A brightness burned from this man, and Sarel left his tools and followed him, learning of the great teacher who had been slain by the authorities. Sarel gave himself to their mission and paid a great price. On his vision quest, Path to New saw men climbing upon each others' backs as they scrambled up a distant shore. And the lives and culture of his people were then threatened as these men thundered toward them. He was tribal shaman and had a second chance, in this life, to save his people. But he and his father, the chief, disagreed on how this might be done. A mistake would cost everyone's lives. Anne Katherine, MA, a respected and gifted therapist and author of 6 bestselling self-help books, 9 books altogether, discovered that people could transform their problems and free themselves from issues that kept them stuck in unhappiness. But these methods were beyond conventional therapy. If she spoke up, would she lose face among her friends and colleagues? She had a third chance, in her current life, to risk her personal status in order to spread a life-saving message. An excerpt: "I was concerned about what some of my friends would think of me, now that I've revealed I have this whole secret spiritual life. I see now that this is the exact worry that plagued Sammuel. I feel a balm on my heart that I've forged ahead and let Penumbra 1 and Penumbra 2 be published. I've fixed my former mistake. This is an incredibly blessed feeling and I invite you to discover it." "Penumbra is going to change the way we think about our personal histories. This is the cusp of a new way of understanding." The Rev. Sherry Buckner

A Soul's Journey

Penumbra 2

The coronavirus pandemic has brought new and challenging interpersonal situations into our lives. Each challenge is an opportunity to assert who we are, and what we truly need to live happy, healthy lives. Have you recently walked away from a date or a conversation feeling uncomfortable or violated? Are you looking for ways to set limits with your spouse, kids, parents, or boss? This essential guide to setting and respecting boundaries is for anyone wanting to better understand themselves and others. Just as a cut in our skin causes pain and injury, a breach of any of our physical, emotional, or sexual boundaries can be very harmful to our bodies and minds. We may need help to heal from past boundary violations, respect the boundaries of those around us, and learn how to set healthy limits for the future, particularly if we have a history of trauma, unhealthy relationships, addiction, or adverse childhood experiences. Drawing on decades of personal and professional experience as a therapist—as well as stories from others who have learned how to heal from serious boundary violations—Anne Katherine, MA, brings us an invaluable, foundational guide on the who, what, and why of boundaries. With nearly 100,000 copies sold, Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin has already helped thousands of readers stand up for themselves and nurture healthier relationship.

Hope, help, and a real explanation for the disease of food addiction

Surprising as it may sound, many people take comfort in their own misery. Feeling too good for too long (or even feeling good at all) can be scary for people, explains Anne Katherine. "Achievement creates anxiety. Intimacy leads to fear. Happiness produces uneasiness. Pleasure causes pain. The solution to this dilemma: what feels good has to be stopped. I call this an addiction to misery." Katherine's fascination and perspective book provides immediate assistance to those people who think they might be making choices that keep them at a "carefully calibrated level of existence--beneath bliss and above despair."

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