Boundaries for Your Soul: How to Turn Your Overwhelming Thoughts and Feelings into Your Greatest Allies

Alison Cook, PhD · Kimberly Miller, MTh, LMFT

Jun 2018 · Sold by Thomas Nelson

About this ebook

Let Boundaries for Your Soul show you how to turn your shame to joy, your anger to advocacy, and your inner critic into your biggest champion.

Do your emotions control you or do you control your emotions? Boundaries for Your Soul, written by bestselling authors and licensed counselors Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller, shows you how to calm the chaos within. This groundbreaking approach will give you the tools you need to:

• Know what to do when you feel overwhelmed
• Understand your guilt, anxiety, sadness, and fear
• Move from doubt and conflict to confidence and peace
• Find balance and emotional stability

Gathering the wisdom from the authors' twenty-five years of combined advanced education, biblical studies, and clinical practice, this book will set you on a journey to become the loving, authentic, joyful person you were created to be.

Praise for Boundaries for Your Soul:

"Personal growth requires that we create healthy boundaries for our internal world, just as we are to do in our interpersonal relationships. When the various parts of our soul are connected and integrated, the result is that we heal, relate, and function at the highest levels. Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller have written a very helpful, engaging, and practical book on how to accomplish this process."

--Dr. John Townsend, New York Times bestselling author of Boundaries and founder of the Townsend Institute

"Boundaries for Your Soul spoke to me in echoes of already-known, yet-not-fully-applied truths, as well as with sweet new understandings. For both those familiar with Jesus' inner healing and those new to the process, there is real help here."

--Elisa Morgan, author of The Beauty of Broken and The Prayer Coin, cohost of Discover the Word, and president emerita of MOPS International

Ratings and reviews

I found this book to be very insightful and helpful. I began reading this during a time when I was struggling with an emotional roller coaster. There was a lot going on in my life and I was having a difficult time coping. I am really good at stuffing my feelings and not really dealing with them, but in the end, that's not a very healthy alternative. Alison and Kimberly give great tips on befriending negative emotions and learning how to handle them. They also help in discerning why those negative emotions keep showing up by digging a little deeper to get to the root. I feel like this book would be an asset to people who struggle with a variety of emotional issues whether simple or maybe a little more complicated. Obviously, it shouldn't replace talking to a counselor if necessary, but it does give alot of helpful advice. Its not really a fast read. I am taking it kind of slow. At the end of each chapter, there are assignments you can do to help you grow. I was blessed with a copy of this book by Thomas Nelson and the BookLook Blogger team. All opinions are my own and I was not required to give this book a positive review.

About the author

Dr. Alison Cook is a therapist and host of the top-ranked The Best of You podcast. She is the author of the ECPA bestselling book The Best of You and coauthor of Boundaries for Your Soul. Widely recognized as an expert at the intersection of faith and psychology, Dr. Alison empowers individuals to heal from past wounds, develop a strong sense of self, forge healthy relationships, and experience a loving God who is for them. She and her husband, Joe, are the parents of two adult children. They call both Boston and Wyoming home. Connect with Dr. Alison at www.dralisoncook.com.

Kimberly J. Miller, LMFT, MTh, is a Christian counselor who holds a master’s of theology from Regent College and an MA in clinical psychology from Azusa Pacific University. She and her husband, Ken, enjoy landscape architecture, volunteer activities, and spending time with friends and family in Claremont, California.