LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST
ABOUT THE BOOK
What if there was a clear roadmap for establishing healthy boundaries?
What if you could find yourself in the process?
When people talk about boundaries, do you have a sinking feeling? Like you know yours aren’t working well for you and you don’t know what to do differently?
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What if the steps to healthy boundaries were clear and specific?
From Pain to Power: Seven Steps to Healthy Boundaries can show you the roadmap.
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Taking these steps will help you make the changes you need, based on your body’s wisdom and your deepest values.
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The author’s experience of divorce is the storyline that illustrates the seven steps. Now the author shares this process so you can learn the skills she practiced, wrestle with the questions she reflected on, and integrate each step into new life habits. You get to move past pain as you choose and practice powerful boundaries for navigating your best life.​​
"As someone who has struggled with boundaries, I was so excited to find a book on the topic that I could relate to and didn’t seem clinical. I am incorporating the many tools learned in these pages in my relationships. No more apologizing for the way I feel! My husband has noticed a vast improvement in my attitude and confidence level and now he is reading it, too!"
~ A Reader
ABOUT THE JOURNAL
What if . . .
you could keep a record of your journey with From Pain to Power: Seven Steps to Healthy Boundaries?
Here is a journal container for:
• your thoughts,
• your feelings,
• your heart responses,
• your experiences of growing awareness,
• the connections you make,
• your new boundary beliefs, and
• your effective actions for healthy boundaries in all your relationships
“This journal can hold the depth of your entire journey with the Seven Steps. You can return here to recheck the roadmap,
to notice how you are moving from pain to power in your life, and to celebrate your progress in making healthy boundaries. Ready to write? Here you go! You’re doing it!”
~Ellen H. Saul, author of From Pain to Power
This book is ultimately a story of redemption and hope! There was a time in my life when the darkness felt all consuming and Ellen’s story of finding light in the darkness resonates with my own and will speak to so many people!
~ A Reader
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“In From Pain to Power: Seven Steps to Healthy Boundaries, Ellen Saul gives us a profoundly effective roadmap for inner development to transform one’s life. I highly recommend her real-world plan to discern and strengthen healthy boundaries, regaining Personal Power in the process. The authenticity of the experiences and the wisdom that shines from these pages will strike a chord with anyone who is struggling to move through or past a toxic relationship. A must-read.”
PATRICIA EVANS, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE VERBALLY ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP
As a clinician, I look for resources that speak to the struggle my clients are expressing. Ellen’s book is just that resource. She transforms setting boundaries into manageable steps that anyone can achieve.
DR. NANCY HAWKINS,
LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST,
SHAKOPEE MDEWAKANTON SIOUX COMMUNITY
This book has presented an accessible path to bringing awareness and liberation to the most challenging places in my life. I am grateful to Ellen for openly sharing her journey to wholeness as it inspires my own path forward. This book is sure to be a gift to all who read it. Thank you, Ellen!
SARAH F.,
SATISFIED CLIENT
Ellen uses her own experience to give others careful, enthusiastic advice on how to move forward through difficult times! I hope From Pain to Power: Seven Steps to Healthy Boundaries receives the widespread response it deserves!
DR. CARL "CHUCK" LOFY, AUTHOR OF A GRAIN OF WHEAT: GIVING VOICE TO THE SPIRIT OF CHANGE
I grew up in a dysfunctional alcoholic family. From Pain to Power helped me learn to love my parts and meet their needs. It was a game changer. As you practice the seven steps, may you find wholeness and healing along with clarity about who you are.
SUSAN KUSKE, REGISTERED NURSE AND HEALING TOUCH INSTRUCTOR
Thinking about your boundaries doesn’t teach you specific steps to take to establish them. From Pain to Power: Seven Steps to Healthy Boundaries outlines clear steps, rooted in your connection to your body and your inner knowing. Take these steps, practice these skills, and discover what can change in your relationships.
HANNAH-VALERIA GRISHKO,
PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SANDPLAY THERAPY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ellen H. Saul is a licensed psychologist who specializes in the process of healing from trauma and attachment wounds. She has a master’s degree in Community Counseling from Minnesota State University, Mankato.
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Ellen had four young children when her first marriage ended, and she learned the hard way that her personal boundaries weren’t creating safety and confidence.
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Ellen's search for effective answers and powerful action led to a life-changing inner journey, graduate school, and an ongoing commitment to helping others.
She and her husband share their southern Minnesota home and their hearts with Annie, a rescue Shepherd-Pit-Husky-Mastiff mix.