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    Drawing Your Line: Setting Boundaries Step by Step
    Drawing Your Line: Setting Boundaries Step by Step
    Drawing Your Line: Setting Boundaries Step by Step
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    Drawing Your Line: Setting Boundaries Step by Step

    By Dawn Koufakis-Basel Alison W. Smith

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    Drawing Your Line: Setting Boundaries Step-by-Step is a manual for developing the self-respect and empowerment that ultimately allows for the setting of healthy boundaries in various arenas of life. This process involves learning to find, respect, and use your voice to take control of your life. Inspired by their work as life coaches working with women, the authors share their personal successes and failures with setting boundaries to inspire you to make healthy changes in your own life. Chock-full of helpful reflection questions to elicit real growth and self-awareness, this book guides you through a "coaching" experience to help you understand where your boundary tendencies come from and how to make healthy shifts toward a life of freedom and peace. Setting boundaries is not an act of aggression, but rather, an act of self-empowerment through self-love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCovenant Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 30, 2019
    ISBN9781645595922
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      Drawing Your Line - Dawn Koufakis-Basel Alison W. Smith

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      ISBN 978-1-64559-591-5 (Paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-64559-592-2 (Digital)

      Copyright © 2019 Dawn Koufakis-Basel and Alison Smith

      All rights reserved

      First Edition

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      Table of Contents

      Boundaries for Group Engagement

      Frequently Wondered Questions

      Session 1: Choose Your Pencil

      Step 1: Give yourself permission.

      Step 2: Bring in your supporters.

      Session 2: Testing Your Lead

      Step 3: Tune in to your inner voice.

      Step 4: Silence the critic.

      Step 5: Change your thought pattern.

      Session 3: Setting Your Canvas

      Step 6: Recognize your value.

      Step 7: Honor your individuality.

      Session 4: Sharpening Your Pencil

      Step 8: Know your tendencies.

      Session 5: Sketch Your Line

      Step 9: Use your voice.

      Step 10: Set New Rules of Engagement

      Session 6: Draw Your Line

      Step 11: Mark your territory.

      Step 12: Stay in your lane.

      Session 7: Mark It Boldly

      Step 13: Reinforce your boundaries.

      Session 8: Make it Permanent

      Step 14: Ground it in gratitude.

      About the Author

      Dear Participant,

      Welcome to Drawing Your Line, a program for empowering women to find their voice and stand their ground through setting healthy boundaries in their lives. We are so excited for you to join us in this important conversation!

      This work is designed to be done in community—meaning, you will be part of a group of eight to twelve women meeting regularly to discuss your challenges, victories, and ultimately, your growth as you navigate this journey. We hope you will engage with your group open-heartedly and commit fully, both to yourself and to the women you will meet along the way.

      This workbook will serve both as the guide for your journey and a journal for you to map your growth. Make it your own. Add color. Add doodles. Highlight important lines that stand out to you. Make it reflect your story.

      Each session will include the following:

      Making the point—comprised of readings, videos, and thoughts from Dawn and Alison. You will have an opportunity to reflect on what the session personally means to you.

      Refining the point—offering discussion questions to further the learning and guide you to practical applications of the big ideas presented in the session. These discussion questions may be posed to the entire group, or you may work in pairs or groups of three or four.

      Connecting the dots—offering reflection questions and exercises, supporting you to connect the dots between sessions and put your learning into practice in real life.

      We hope this is a transformative experience for you! We hope you become more centered and confident. We hope you understand and value yourself on an even deeper level than you do today.

      Ultimately, we are inviting you into a conversation that will encourage, inspire, and motivate you to live life on your own terms.

      Let’s do this!

      Dawn and Alison

      Boundaries for Group Engagement

      Confidentiality. What is shared in the group stays in group.

      No judgment or analysis.

      Be generous in your interpretation of others’ behavior. Offer each woman unconditional positive regard.

      No hijacking the conversation. One voice at a time.

      Be mindful to allow time for others to share.

      The facilitator leads the group discussion.

      Arrive on time. Silence your phones.

      Be kind and supportive.

      Be an awesome listener.

      Avoid side conversations.

      Feel free to make new friendships!

      Frequently Wondered Questions

      What is life coaching?

      Life coaching is a service that provides support and encouragement to those who are ready to make positive changes in their lives. Life coaching does not treat mental disorders as defined by the American Psychiatric Association. Life coaching is not a substitute for counseling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, mental health care or substance-abuse treatment. Life coaching is designed for those who are mentally well and simply need a partner to help and support them in living the best life possible, including feeling more purposeful, peaceful, and empowered.

      Will we be analyzing my past?

      The work of life coaching is not to look to the past but rather to focus on the future. Deep-seated trauma from past events or present challenges that are of a serious and potentially dangerous nature require professional intervention.

      What will I gain from being part of this program?

      Drawing Your Line is intended to provide a step-by-step guide toward building necessary safeguards in order to take control of your life. This is a choice and commitment that one must be willing and able to make. We have created this program to offer a community of support in your effort to seriously examine what boundaries entail and how best to implement them into your life. While it is our intention to see you make change in your life and, through the program, you may receive ideas/suggestions from the facilitators or others in the course, however, all decisions and actions taken as a result of participation in this program are exclusively yours and are your responsibility.

      What is group life coaching?

      Drawing Your Line will provide group life coaching either in person or via online group sessions. Group life coaching includes everything mentioned in the answer to What is life coaching? above, simply within a group. One of the benefits of group life coaching is that you will get to witness other women as they travel the same road you are about to embark upon. They will also witness your journey and be inspired by you. Group life coaching can be an extraordinarily powerful process for those involved, and that is what we hope it is for you!

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