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Boundaries and Relationships : Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self
Charles L. Whitfield, MD · 2018
🎙 Narrated by Jonathan Yen
71/100
👍 Worth It
Dr. Whitfield brings real clinical weight here — decades treating addiction and trauma — and the ten-area framework plus self-assessment survey gives readers something concrete to actually work through, not just platitudes. Some feel the spirituality chapter pulls too far from the research-based approach they wanted, calling it 'not scientific at all,' but the overall material holds up as a substantive codependency resource, and Jonathan Yen's narration draws no complaints. Worth it if you want depth over a quick read.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Includes a chapter on spirituality that one reviewer found more religious/spiritual than scientific in tone — worth knowing if you want a strictly clinical read.. We still scored it 71; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety70
Substance / usefulness70
Craft & writing65
Originality60
Evidence & accuracy55
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit70
Human-eye read65
Penny’s verdict71
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