Psychotherapist Terri Cole teaches a simple but powerful truth: without healthy boundaries, you can't live an authentic and fulfilled life. After all, if you're always smiling and saying "yes" to everything, how is anyone else supposed to know you're burnt out, overloaded, and not up to taking on yet another task? This is especially true for today's women, who are often caught between cultural conditioning toward being "nice" and the need to protect their own well-being. With that in mind, Cole presents Boundary Boss, a comprehensive guide for any woman who wants to master creating and maintaining healthy boundaries. In Boundary Boss, Cole's proven methodology is based on her Five Pillars of Transformation for examining and adjusting your personal and professional limits. Each of these overarching themes branches into more specific lessons about mindful communication, body language techniques, and how to deal with the guilt, fear, or backlash that arises when finally setting a boundary. Cole offers an actionable tool kit of scripts, strategies, and practices that can be used in the moment, whenever you need them. "For every single client who has walked through my office doors, no matter what their presenting problem, boundaries and effective communication (or lack thereof) are at the root of their pain," writes Cole. With Boundary Boss, you'll discover tools for transcending that pain and creating a healthier, happier life.

An empowering new take on codependent behavior, revealing the underlying reasons we struggle with doing it all―and the path to recovery and freedom.

Are you the person everyone comes to when they’re in a jam? Do you regularly accommodate others’ needs and preferences? Does it feel like chaos will ensue if you don’t handle the travel plans, divvy up the check at group dinners, sort out your friend’s latest crisis, and so on? If these questions resonate, the odds are good that you are one of the over-giving, over-extending individuals struggling with what psychotherapist and boundary expert Terri Cole has termed high-functioning codependency (HFC).

When you hear the word codependent, you might think of the traditional enabler framework involving a hapless victim and their selfless rescuer. Terri certainly did. But after years in her therapy practice, she realized that many of her clients were presenting codependent behaviors that fell outside of the classic model. The ironic truth with HFC is that the more capable you are the more codependency doesn’t look like codependency.

In Too Much, you’ll discover how to identify your HFC blueprint (or why you relate to others the way you do), the source of the attraction between codependents and narcissists, and how to cultivate emotional resiliency, practice real self-care, and much more.

Each chapter includes tips, self-assessments, and exercises to help you transform how you see yourself and the world, avoid relapses, and stay centered in your own experience so that you can relate to others in a healthier way.

Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award 2018 - Textbook category 'This fascinating book examines some of the ideological underpinnings of forensic psychological research, policy and practice. It is refreshingly reflective and a significant contribution to the field. I strongly recommend it.' - Professor Graham Towl, Durham University and formerly Chief Psychologist at the Ministry of Justice 'The strength of this book is the complexity of concepts and topics covered mean that it is suitable for students who wish to be challenged.' - Dr Louise Almond, University of Liverpool 'This is a book for people who like to think. It presents the realities of practice with the challenges of theory and asks the reader to shake off complacency. It is insightful and challenging but most of all, it is very readable.' - Professor Joanna R. Adler, Middlesex University Students of Forensic Psychology need to learn how to combine practical skills such as report writing or assessments with a critical understanding of both theory and the wider political and policy landscape that surrounds the profession. Mapped to the British Psychological Society's Stage One and Two training requirements for forensic psychologists Forensic Psychology: Theory, Research, Policy and Practice will help you understand how these crucial areas of the profession interact and how they can shape one another. Throughout the text the authors provide a detailed analysis of key concepts, debates and theories while weaving in insights and reflections from key professionals, ensuring you have the necessary knowledge and skills to pass assignments and get past the stage 2 supervised practice requirements en route to becoming a qualified forensic psychologist. This text will be essential reading for all those on MSc Forensic Psychology courses, and will also be a useful reader for those on practitioner doctorates as well as the already qualified needing to keep up with the CPD. The book is also a useful companion to professionals in allied criminal justice professions.

Prologue "They" say that money is the root of all evil. I say that FEAR is. It is certainly at the root of all the dis-ease, dis-comfort, and dys-function on the planet. It is why the rich are so driven to get richer, and the powerful are driven to control ALL. They are driven because they are afraid they will not have enough to truly feel secure. In a way, they're right. They will NEVER TRULY FEEL SECURE, because all the money and power in the world cannot provide the security they need. It can merely give them the ILLUSION of that. You may have heard stories of wealthy men jumping off buildings when the stock market crashed in 1929. That's a prime example of what I'm talking about. The super rich and powerful require their wealth and power to feel secure, or more accurately, to keep the illusion of being secure. TRUE SECURITY can only come FROM WITHIN OURSELVES when we can FULLY ACCEPT OURSELVES FOR ALL THAT WE ARE AND ALL THAT WE ARE NOT. Then we are not only SECURE, but we are FREE to be our perfectly imperfect selves. It is the full releasing of judgment of self, resulting in full acceptance of self, that makes us feel truly secure. That's also necessary to FEEL WORTHY enough of having all that we desire. To take it one step further, as we LET GO of JUDGMENT of self, we move into a space of LOVE After all, JUDGMENT is based on FEAR, and FEAR is the OPPOSITE of LOVE. The more we dissolve judgment, the more that love is given the space to grow and glow within us. The more we are able to express this love to others, the more we are able to receive it. As the fear and judgment dissipate, the love grows exponentially, filling us up, permeating our beingness and lives, until we are radiating out so much love we BECOME LOVE...UNCONDITIONAL LOVE...UNIVERSAL LOVE...the permanent state of which is Oneness...Samadhi...Enlightenment...Ascension. Fear also keeps us from effortlessly flowing or R.O.L.L.ing through life. When we predict the results of a situation from past experience, projecting it into the future out of fear that we will re-create it, that is usually what happens. This is because as soon as we think it can happen we are already drawing it to us, which is sometimes referred to as the "self-fulfilling prophecy," or as some say, "What you fear will appear." By simply R.O.L.L.ing, we can integrate the lessons we've learned from the past, little by little, quite easily, without having to invoke or re-live them. This is because, as we LET GO of EXPECTATION (attachment to result), we can allow the Divine to flow through us naturally and effortlessly in the PRESENT. When we are being truly present, we can listen to our Higher Selves, Guides, and Angels, who are always available to us, protecting and guiding us. Only when we are "being" truly PRESENT can we "listen" to them and utilize their exquisitely perfect guidance to take advantage of the endless opportunities presented to us, in each and every moment. WITHOUT the JUDGMENT and EXPECTATION, we can truly MANIFEST WHAT WE DESIRE quite EFFORTLESSLY & MAGICALLY, because we FEEL WORTHY ENOUGH to RECEIVE what the DIVINE FLOW OF LIFE has to offer. While this may not happen overnight, you will undoubtedly recognize progress made at various points along the way. It is a journey well worth traveling, no matter how long it takes.

The author of the number-one "New York Times" bestseller "How to Have More in a Have-Not World" now gives us her most passionate-and personal-book yet. In her trademark witty, straight-talking style, Terry Cole-Whittaker reveals a seven-step program that teaches readers to become the successful, happy people God has designed them to be.