The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook - by Randi Kreger (Paperback)

About the Book

Kreger draws on new research to provide advice for navigating life with someone who has borderline personality disorder. Step-by-step suggestions--many from users of the author's comprehensive Web site--help readers set and enforce personal limits, communicate clearly, cope with put-downs and rage, and make realistic decisions.

Book Synopsis

The symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) include severe mood shifts, unfounded accusations and wildly inappropriate displays of anger, a range of self-destructive behaviors, and frantic efforts to avoid abandonment. For the friends and families of people with BPD, The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook supports and reinforces the ideas in its partner book Stop Walking on Eggshells.

The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook can be used by itself, or as an accompaniment to the first book. A practical guide to successfully navigating life with someone with BPD, it's chock full of worksheets, checklists, and exercises to help them apply what they've learned to their own relationship. It includes a form to help to fill in when looking for a clinician, a list of phrases to use, and a glossary of BPD-related terms. The book is easy to read and right to the point.

Review Quotes

Borderline Personality disorder throws millions of lives into chaos not just the lives of people with the disorder-but also those of the people around them. Here, at last, is a book of survival and empowerment for anyone who cares about someone with Borderline Personality Disorder. This is a truly invaluable resource-a must read.
--John Bradshaw, host of the PBS series Bradshaw on the Family and author of the best selling books Bradshaw on the Family and Healing the Shame that Binds You

About the Author

Randi Kreger has brought the concerns of family members who have a loved one with BPD to an international forefront through her website, www.bpdcentral.com, and the Welcome to Oz online support community. Through Eggshells Press, she offers family members a wide variety of more specialized booklets and other materials. She was also instrumental in the formation of the Personality Disorders Awareness Network (PDAN), a not-for-profit organization. Kreger is author of The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook and The Essential Family Member Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder. She speaks and gives workshops about BPD internationally.

James Paul Shirley, LMSW, is a therapist with 15 years of experience with personality disorders. He provides support to people who are undergoing divorce and custody disputes with someone who has borderline personality disorder. He is coauthor of the Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook.