Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

Table of Contents:
Foreword / Henry Cloud -- Introduction: Don't Settle -- Part 1. Understanding the Problem -- 1. The Draw to Relationship -- 2. The Damage Arrives -- 3. Boundaries and What They Accomplish -- 4. The Return of Desire -- Part 2. Knowing when You're Ready -- 5. You Admit the Hurt and Receive Support -- 6. You Understand Your Own Past Choices -- 7. You Can Connect the Dots -- 8. You Grieve and Let it Go -- 9. You Develop Growth Friendships -- 10. You Trust Your Defining Boundaries -- 11. You Let Your Values Transform Your Desires -- 12. You Know Which Risks Are Worth. Taking and Which Are Not -- Part 3. Knowing when the Other Person is Ready -- 13. Does This Person Care About His or Her Impact on You? -- 14. Is This Person (Really) Connected to Good People? -- 15. Can This Person Handle a Relationship with You? -- 16. For Dating and Marriage: Does This Person Go Beyond Passion? -- 17. Is the Big Problem Being Solved the Right Way? -- Part 4. Moving into the Relationship -- 18. The Talk You Must Have -- 19. Take a Risk -- 20. Deal with Speed Bumps -- 21. How Far Can You Go? -- Conclusion: Beyond Boundaries into Your Best Life -- Notes.

Brief Description:
How do you know you're ready to trust again? In Beyond Boundaries, bestselling author Dr. John Townsend helps you discover when and how to trust again after you've set appropriate boundaries, how to connect deeply without being hurt, and how to safely grow your most intimate relationships.

Brief Description:
Helps readers discover when and how to trust again after they have set appropriate boundaries, how to connect deeply without being hurt, and how to safely grow in their most intimate relationships.

Biographical Note:

Dr. John Townsend is a leadership consultant, psychologist, and New York times bestselling author. He has written twenty-seven books, selling 8 million copies, including the 3 million-selling Boundaries series. John is founder of the Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling and conducts the Townsend Leadership Program. He travels extensively for corporate consulting, speaking, and working with leadership families. He and his wife, Barbi, live in Newport Beach, California. They have two sons. One of Dr. Townsend's favorite hobbies is playing in a band that performs in Southern California lounges and venues.

For when your trust has been broken: discover how to set firm boundaries again, how to connect deeply without being hurt, and how to safely grow your most intimate relationships.

Painful relationships violate our trust, causing us to close our hearts. But to experience the freedom and love God designed us for, we eventually have to take another risk.

In this breakthrough book, bestselling author Dr. John Townsend takes you beyond the pain of the past to discover how to re-enter a life of intimate relationships. Whether you're trying to restore a current relationship or begin a new one, Townsend gives practical tools for establishing trust and finding the intimacy you long for.

Beyond Boundaries will help you:

• Reinstate closeness appropriately with someone who broke your trust
• Discern when true change has occurred
• Reestablish appropriate connections in strained relationships
• Create a safe environment that helps you trust
• Restore former relationships to a healthy dynamic
• Learn to engage and be vulnerable in a new relationship as well

You can move past relational pain to trust again. Beyond Boundaries will show you how.

Plus, dig even deeper into relational healing with the coordinating video study and study guide. Spanish edition also available.

Contributor Bio:Townsend, John

Dr. John Townsend is a nationally known leadership consultant, psychologist, and author, selling over 10 million books, including the New York Times bestselling Boundaries series. John founded the Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling and the Townsend Leadership Program. Dr. Townsend travels extensively for corporate consulting, speaking events, and to help develop leaders, their teams, and their families. John and his family live in Southern California and Texas. Visit DrTownsend.com.