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Our mission is to provide hope, healing, freedom, and SANITY Support to anyone struggling with relationship issues concerning weak or non-existent personal boundaries. Join bestselling author and speaker Allison Bottke as she encourages, empowers, and inspires readers with her life-changing Six Steps to SANITY.

As the author of the Setting Boundaries ™ book series from Harvest House Publishers, a day seldom goes by when I don’t hear from someone who has read one of the SB books or has heard me interviewed on a radio talk show, television program, or blog.

Folks contact me for several reasons:

To share their setting boundaries success stories.
To learn more about the Six Steps to SANITY, or about setting boundaries in general.
To ask my advice in dealing with their challenging adult children, difficult people, or toxic parents.
To inquire about starting or attending a SANITY Support group in their home, church, or community.
To find out where they can get Setting Boundaries ™ books.
To cry out for help in desperate situations concerning their adult sons, daughters, grandchildren, and/or difficult people.
To find hope, healing, freedom, and peace in challenging relationships where boundaries have been weak or non-existent.
To find out how I lost 120 pounds.
Because someone referred them to my books, website, or blog.

Why have you stopped by today?

It’s exciting to hear from readers who have found SANITY and are experiencing life-changing transformation in their previously challenging relationships. On the other hand, it’s heart breaking to hear from people who have reached the end of their ropes and are crying out for help—especially concerning relationships with their adult children.

I want to hug each one of you and let you know that you’re not alone.

♦ If you are searching for hope and healing today, my prayer is that you will find it when you find SANITY, and that you’ll allow me and our growing blog community to help.

♦ If you know someone who desperately needs to set healthy boundaries and are looking for resources to share with them, God bless you for caring enough to send them a link to the SANITY Support blog.

You’ll often hear me say that the choices we make can change the story of our lives.

Some of the boundary setting choices we face will be life changing. Yet it’s not just the monumental choices we make that can dramatically change the course of our lives, but the seemingly insignificant choices we make in the everyday moments as well. Combined they make us who we are, a rich tapestry of experience woven together with threads of choice.

Thank you for making the choice to read about my SANITY Support blog and I hope you’ll make the choice to return and participate in our community by sharing your thoughts, feelings, opinions, and insight via the comment sections after each posting. You can subscribe to the RSS blog feed on the right side of your screen. Please feel free to share this link with friends and family.

The SANITY Support blog will post twice a week, every Saturday and Wednesday. Scroll down for more specific information.

God will always make a way when there seems to be no way, and it’s no accident you are reading this now. Stay strong, faithful, and focused on your mission to find SANITY in your life.

I look forward to communicating with you as we strive to set healthy boundaries in all of our relationships and bring glory and honor to God.

Blessings and God’s peace,

Allison

Who will find the SANITY Support blog helpful?

1. Stressed out men and women looking for hope, healing and SANITY.

2. Parents and Grandparents who have challenging relationships with adult children.

3. Anyone who has challenging relationships with difficult people.

4. Adult children who have challenging relationships with toxic parents.

5. Anyone living with the insanity of drama, chaos, crisis, and stress because of the poor choices someone else is making (i.e. drugs, alcohol, unemployment, crime, etc.)

6. People who have weight issues and need to set boundaries with food.

7. Anyone who has had or is considering WLS (weight loss surgery).

What primary issues will the SANITY Support blog address?

We’re going to transparently and authentically discuss issues that keep our relationships from being all that God intends for them to be.

Parents and grandparents around the country are dealing with situations that range from adult kids who simply cannot “launch,” to adult kids who are addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, have been in and out of rehabilitation centers, jail, and/or prison, who can’t keep jobs, and whose lives create an ongoing source of drama, chaos and crisis for the entire family.

Typically, these parents and grandparents have reached the end of their ropes emotionally, financially, and spiritually, and are in desperate need of “SANITY” in the “insane situations of life.” They are looking for guidance and reassurance to make choices that will change their lives (and hopefully the lives of their loved ones).

However, the issues we plan to address don’t stop there. More and more people are finding increasing challenges in their relationships with difficult people, including spouses or ex-spouses, siblings or other relatives, in-laws, neighbors, bosses and co-workers, church members, and the list goes on.

Another significant issue is our relationship with food, and a problem that affects more than 200 million Americans (68 percent of the adult population)—obesity. Join me and VIP guest blogger Beverly Eden in turning away from the insanity of dieting and deprivation and focusing instead on establishing healthy relationships with food, self, others, and God.

In short, the Six Steps to SANITY can help you find hope, healing, peace, and freedom no matter what issue you may be struggling to overcome. Setting healthy boundaries and finding SANITY is possible for everyone who wants healthier and happier relationships.

Our goal is to make the Six Steps to SANITY program as familiar as the 12-Step AA program, and the SANITY Support groups as familiar as other support groups such as; CR (Celebrate Recovery), AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), NA (Narcotics Anonymous), CODA (Co-Dependency Anonymous), and DC (Divorce Care).