You want to stop pleasing everyone around you and start choosing yourself, but you’re afraid of losing closeness and ruining relationships. This book will help you build personal boundaries, learn how to stand up to manipulation, depend less on other people’s opinions, and feel more freedom in communication and in life.
Olga Viktorova is a clinical psychologist who works with children and their parents at DocDeti and DocMed. She is a member of the Association for Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy and the Association of Specialists in the Field of Contextual-Behavioral Science. In her practice, she relies on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), solution-focused brief positive therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). She helps improve quality of life, understand relationship challenges, and cope with difficult emotions, anxious and depressive thoughts.
“How to Be With Yourself, How to Be With Others” is a practical workbook on how to build healthy relationships with yourself and the people around you. Personal boundaries are more than just the ability to say “no”: they are the foundation for life, where both your needs and respect for others matter. By doing the exercises and techniques from the book, you will put into practice:
• understand where your boundaries are and where other people’s expectations begin;
• figure out how selfishness differs from self-care;
• learn to say no without guilt and without fear of destroying relationships;
• be better able to protect yourself from pressure and manipulation;
• stop living in dependence on others’ approval;
• strengthen your inner supports: self-worth, mindfulness, and emotional resilience.
For those who are tired of being “convenient” and are ready to choose themselves.
Inside — stickers with bright illustrations and inspiring phrases.