That’s the key to this excellent book. More than a “how-to” manual based on theory, Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing is a practical yet personal guide to regaining and maintaining sanity after being caught up in an ongoing cycle of crisis and enabling. Not only does this book deliver what it promises—six practical steps to help struggling parents recover and reclaim their lives and their sanity—but it does so in a remarkable manner.

Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children is designed for individual study, as well as group settings, through the simple but effective use of a six-step S.A.N.I.T.Y. program:

• 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 the Higher Power of God (Surrender)

Bottke is no flash-in-the-pan author or an expert on a particular topic who has managed to write an acceptable manuscript; she is an extraordinary writer with exceptional talent who is willing to bare her heart to her readers. This is a rare gift and one she freely gives throughout this gripping book. From Bottke’s soul-rending opening account of her New Year’s Day post-SWAT team encounter to her final words of encouragement to parents in like situations, Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children keeps readers hungrily devouring its contents, even as hope builds in their hearts.

 “We do not parent as those who have no hope,” Bottke says. “We have a God who watches over our children—if we’ll just get out of His way and let Him do the restoring.”

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Allison Bottke is the founder of the acclaimed God Allows U-Turns outreach ministry and is the author or editor of twenty-four published non-fiction and fiction books. Visit her web site at: http://www.allisonbottke.com/. Setting Boundaries with your Adult Children can be bought at your local bookstore or online at http://www.sanitysupport.com/. For information about locating or starting a S.A.N.I.T.Y. Support Group, visit http://www.sanitysupport.com/.

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Kathi Macias, popular speaker and prolific author, is an Angel-award winning writer who has published twenty-one books and hundreds of articles. Whether keyboarding her latest book, keynoting a conference, or riding on the back of her husband's Harley, Kathi “Easy Writer” Macias is a lady on a mission to communicate God’s vision. Her insightful words—filled with passion, humor, and soul nourishment—refresh audiences from all walks of life, and her Spanish devotionals, “Desde el Corazon del Padre,” (with English translations) can be found on Crosswalk.com each Monday. Her newest book, BEYOND ME: LIVING A YOU-FIRST LIFE IN A ME-FIRST WORLD, is scheduled for a July 1 release from New Hope Publishers and can be pre-ordered on Amazon. To book Kathi for your next event, email kenbarry@thebarryagency.com. For more information, visit http://www.kathimacias.com/.