How to Grow a Second Skin for Your Soul: For those who feel hurt, judged, criticized, abandoned, invalidated, when someone else acts like a jerk.

By Alisa S. Burgess, Ph.D
6" x 9" Trade Paper, 231 pages

What if a man gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" asks one of the great spiritual masters. What is the price one pays for compromising his or her boundaries in order to maintain status quo? The price is immeasurable, for the loss of one's boundaries leads to the loss of one's self.

This book is for the openhearted and sensitive soul who is prone to losing his or her boundaries in relationships. Others may easily hurt this individual. Such a person may have difficulty expressing true feelings because of the fear that others will react negatively towards them. They may be afraid that if they speak their truth, others will become angry and abandon them, criticize, judge, invalidate or send them on a guilt trip. As a result, the "self" or soul of this person may be imprisoned by dependency on others and the fear of how others may react. If this describes you, How to Grow a Second Skin for Your Soul may offer the help you need to emancipate your soul. This book can help guide you through the process of the development of healthy boundaries so that you become solid within your "self." In short, this book may be just the tonic you need to set yourself free to live fully, perhaps for the very first time.

"[How to Grow a Second Skin for Your Soul] integrate(s) the spiritual with a psychodynamic approach to suffering and healing. [This] is a necessary and helpful idea and I [am] happy to endorse [this] work."
­­Frederic Luskin, Ph.D., Author of Forgive for Good - A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness