The Self-Respect Rulebook: Standards That Protect Your Peace: Build personal standards for time, relationships, and health (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789377784690)

You can be compassionate and still be done. Done with last-minute demands that hijack your calendar. Done with conversations that leave you shaken. Done with the slow leak of self-neglect that you keep calling "just a busy season". The Self-Respect Rulebook is a practical guide to building personal standards that protect your peace, health, and dignity - without turning you into someone rigid, cold, or constantly on guard. Noura Belvigne shows you how standards differ from perfectionism, and why vague intentions fail under pressure. You will learn a clear method for choosing what is non-negotiable, what can flex, and how to communicate those decisions in plain language. With concrete scripts and realistic scenarios, the book walks you through saying no without over-explaining, setting time boundaries that reduce resentment, and defining relationship expectations that make conflict safer and repair more likely. Most importantly, you will learn boundary enforcement that is calm and consistent: what to do when someone crosses a line, what to do when they do it again, and how to match consequences to patterns without becoming punitive. Along the way, you will build self-care rules you can keep on hard days, and integrity habits that rebuild trust with yourself one follow-through at a time. This book is for people who have been "the easy one" for too long - and are ready to live with steady self-respect.

Author: Noura Belvigne
ISBN-10: 9377784697
ISBN-13: 9789377784690
Publisher: Mindful Pages
Language: English
Published: 06/05/2026
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d