The Courage to Set Healthy Boundaries: Stand Strong in Your Truth, Feel Whole and Respected | Robert Jackman

This therapist-endorsed guide provides practical tools for establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries in relationships. Whether you feel overwhelmed by others' demands, avoid difficult conversations, or repeat unhealthy relationship patterns, this book offers immediate, actionable strategies.

Written by bestselling author and board-certified psychotherapist Robert Jackman, the work treats boundaries as essential communication skills that define where we end and others begin. These tools help us develop agency over past experiences and break cycles of problematic interactions.

Through stories, practical techniques, and cognitive-behavioral exercises, readers learn how childhood experiences affect boundary-setting, methods for breaking codependent patterns, and specific examples of what to say in challenging situations. The book explores why ignoring warning signs enables boundary violations, how strong boundaries neutralize manipulative behavior, and why intuition serves as our primary protection.

The work distinguishes between overly flexible and rigidly closed boundary styles while demonstrating how clear boundaries help communicate needs effectively. By learning when and how to say no, readers can distance themselves from toxic dynamics while developing the courage to become the support they once needed.

Each boundary established contributes to healing and wholeness, enabling more authentic relationships and emotional freedom from drama and manipulation.