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SANITY Support FAQ’s

What Setting Boundaries topics are being addressed in SANITY Support Groups?

SANITY Support is available for readers of all the published books in the Setting Boundaries book series:

Setting Boundaries with Adult Children (2008)
Setting Boundaries with Aging Parents (2010)
Setting Boundaries with Difficult People (2011)
Setting Boundaries with Food (Releasing Fall 2012)
Setting Boundaries with Teens (Releasing Fall 2013)

How do I locate a SANITY Support Group in my community?

Unfortunately, we do not currently have the technical ability or manpower to track where SANITY Support Groups are meeting around the country. However, we know that groups are indeed meeting, as we hear regularly from members. As we launch the new Setting Boundaries Books website it is our intention to begin compiling this information anew, and making it available to readers via our FINDING SANITY blog and SANITY SUPPORT newsletter.

Make sure to visit our Latest News page to subscribe to the blog and/or this online publication. We would also like to encourage you to consider starting a SANITY Support Group yourself, it’s easier than you think to bring SANITY to your community. If you’ve read any of the books in the series, you know that the “T” in finding SANITY is to, “TRUST Your Instincts.” If you feel God leading you toward SANITY Support, please pray about starting a group.

How do I start a SANITY Support Group in my home, church, or community?

The main requirement of a SANITY Support Group Leader volunteer is a heart to help people find hope, healing and freedom from the crippling epidemic of unhealthy boundaries, followed by a willingness to commit to facilitating the group for 8-weeks.

SANITY Support Group Leaders may be parents, grandparents, men, women, married, or single. They may be stay-at-home moms or licensed counselors or therapists. They may be pastors, business professionals, or blue-collar workers. SANITY Support Group Leaders are compassionate volunteers who have been touched by one of the books in the Setting Boundaries series and feel in their heart and soul this is something they have been called to do for this season—for such a time as this.

A new and improved 8-week program will eventually be available for every book in the series. Developed to encourage group members to apply the lessons taught in the books, the main goal is to nurture fellowship and mutually support one another on the journey.

Your group can consist of two, twenty, or two-hundred people, and can be held in your home, church, business, storefront, school, or local community center.

Using the copy of the Setting Boundaries book you already have, all you will need is the SANITY Support Group Leader guide. Available exclusively on our website, it will be easy to download the e-booklet and print it from your own computer. This document in PDF format will give you step-by-step instructions to start, promote and lead your group. SANITY Support e-booklets will also be available online soon. (There is a nominal one-time fee to download e-booklet materials.)

Can I join an existing SANITY Support Group at any time?

This will be up to the discretion of the SANITY Support Group Leader who is hosting the group in your community. The new and improved program will follow an 8-week format based on each book in the Setting Boundaries series. It may be difficult to catch-up if you come into the group late.

What is the 8-Week format of a SANITY Support Group?

Session/Week 1: Welcome and overview of what to expect in the 8-Week session

…………….Group discussion of the featured book in the Setting Boundaries series

…………….The 6-Steps to SANITY – Overview

Session/Week 2: Step One = S for STOP OUR OWN NEGATIVE BEHAVIOR/RESPONSES

Session/Week 3: Step Two = A for ASSEMBLE A SUPPORT GROUP

Session/Week 4: Step Three = N for NIP EXCUSES IN THE BUD

Session/Week 5: Step Four = I for IMPLEMENT A PLAN (Developing Your Action Plan!)

Session/Week 6: Step Five = T for TRUST THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT

Session/Week 7: Step Six = Y for YIELD EVERYTHING TO GOD

Session/Week 8: Considering the Consequences

…………….Releasing the insanity and moving forward with SANITY

What do group members need in order to participate?

1. A willingness to make life-changing SANITY choices.

2. A belief in God.

3. A public or private invitation from the SANITY Support Group Leader who will be hosting the 8-week program.

4. Your own copy of the Setting Boundaries book being featured in your particular group. (Books can be purchased at any Christian or secular bookstore or online at Amazon.com or ChristianBooks.com.)

5. Your own original copy of the e-booklet study guide purchased online as a PDF download and printed on your own computer. Group leaders will not photocopy or supply group members with materials. (All e-booklet downloads are available  exclusively at www.SettingBoundariesBooks.com )

OR

6. Companion study guide materials and book purchased as part of a package for SANITY Support groups being hosted by Churches, Counseling Centers, Churches, and/or other organizations. Refer to individual group invitations for more information.

Must I be a Christian to lead a group or participate as a member?

I invite people of all faiths and denominations to find hope and healing in my Setting Boundaries books and products. However, it’s important to know that my perspective is unapologetically from a Christian worldview. I believe a critical part of any enduring solution is a firm trust in God. He knows our pain and problems, and He has provided a way of hope and healing that I have incorporated into all Setting Boundaries books and programs.

I’m starting a SANITY Support Group, is there someone I should inform?

Yes! Allison would personally like to hear from you. Please visit the SANITY Support Group Registration page on this website to let her know about your group. We strongly recommend that the person who will be responsible for leading or directing your 6-Steps to S.A.N.I.T.Y. and 8-Weeks to Freedom session completes this online Registration process so we can provide you with information about ongoing support and special offers for you and your group.

If you are this person, then simply visit www.xxxx.com and complete the brief online form.

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