“Relatable, poignant and brave, Garner's collection of real-world skills for courageous healing is a must-read. If you're questioning your self-worth or feel mired in toxicity, this relatable book from a survivor, educator and therapist offers accessible practices for building boundaries, compassion and presence.

" -Elena Brower, bestselling author of Practice You and Softening Time“Fierce Boundaries is a highly practical toolkit for putting the power of somatic techniques to work for you. ” -Gay Hendricks, Author of The Big Leap"If we believe that healing comes from something out there, something outside of us, then it is a destination that can never be reached in a lifetime.

But if we can reframe our language, change the story we are telling ourselves, and allow ourselves to honor our body’s knowing and to tend to ourselves as needed from moment to moment, then real healing from withinbecomes possible. "You are the work.

You are worthy of care. You deserve to set fierce boundaries around your heart, to honor your inner knowing, and to say "enough" to emotional abuse and toxic relationships.

As parents, educators, and helping professionals, we need our strength now more than ever. Yet a lifetime of people-pleasing and putting others first has left many of us too exhausted and under-resourced to manage the task ahead.

We have given ourselves away, and we are lost in a sea of unskillful coping, depression, anxiety, loneliness, and unacknowledged grief. The exercises and skills in this book will help you set the fierce boundaries you need to transform traumatic stress, interrupt cycles of addiction and abuse, come home to yourself, and curate your mental real estate for optimal health.

Cynthia Garner is a doctor of body-mind healing, a somatic psychotherapist, a single mother who survived an emotionally abusive relationship through mental illness, and a former classroom teacher turned mindfulness instructor. In this book, she shares her life experience and expertise to provide a field-tested pathway for turning poison into medicine and reclaiming a sense of agency in these troubled times.

She offers proven therapeutic practices for healing our relationship to ourselves, and a new narrative for those of us willing to try a different approach — believing that healing is possible and that we are worthy of carving out time and space for rest, joy, and wellbeing. .