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Tough Love can be very effective for those with loved ones with Borderline Personality Disorder. It is important to approach tough love in a way that is not polarized or absolute. In part two of her video lecture on the subject of tough love for loved ones of those with Borderline Personality Disorder, author, speaker, life coach and strategist, A.J. Mahari, speaking to a group of Loved Ones of those with BPD, talks about the value of tough love and how it was tough love that was at the center of her own recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder 14 years ago.
 

You can purchase A.J.'s entire 2 hour video lecture on Tough Love For Loved Ones of those with BPD in two parts and/or you can also purchase an audio version of the same lecture.


Mahari also shares some of her own personal experience with tough love and stresses what it takes to recover from BPD – the must-haves central in that process for your loved one with Borderline Personality Disorder.

A.J. describes how and why tough love, as she defines it, can help both the loved one and the borderline. She also gives a poignant example from her own life about learning how and why tough love can and does help those with BPD.



Borderlines are often described as not having any emotional skin. This is how sensitive they can be and how raw their emotions often are and how difficult those emotions are to even begin to cope with for those with BPD. A.J. maintains that there is something so important at stake for both the loved one the borderline that make tough love even all the more important.

      LIFE COACHING With A.J. Mahari


You can purchase A.J.'s entire 2 hour video lecture on Tough Love For Loved Ones of those with BPD in two parts and/or you can also purchase an audio version of the same lecture.


 
Tough love isn't and does not have to be what many first think or perceive it to be and/or mean. A.J. sheds light on that in her focus on a middle-ground type of tough love that can benefit both the person with BPD and the person who loves or cares him or her.
 

 
 
It is also important to note that incorporating tough love into an eclectic approach that comes from a balanced well-thought out middle-ground can be very helpful to loved ones of those with BPD, whether or not the person with BPD in your life is in therapy, wants help, or not.

© A.J. Mahari, February 23, 2009 – All rights reserved.

Tough Love and Its Effectiveness for Loved Ones of Those with Borderline Personality