Nedra Glennon Tawwab

Nedra Glennon Tawwab is an American therapist and author whose book Set Boundaries, Find Peace translates clinical insights on healthy boundaries into practical guidance for a mass audience.

Nedra Glennon Tawwab is a licensed therapist based in Charlotte, North Carolina, who built a significant social media following on Instagram sharing advice about relationships and mental health before publishing Set Boundaries, Find Peace in 2021. The book draws on her clinical practice to explain what healthy boundaries look like in relationships — romantic, familial, professional, and social — and to address the guilt and conflict that boundary-setting often provokes.

Set Boundaries, Find Peace is accessible, practical, and clearly written. Tawwab breaks down concepts that therapists use regularly — codependency, enmeshment, passive versus direct communication — in ways that people without clinical backgrounds can readily apply. The book does not assume a highly educated reader, and this is largely a strength: the advice is actionable rather than theoretical, grounded in recognizable real-life scenarios. Chapters on family systems and workplace dynamics are particularly useful.

The limitation of the book is that it covers familiar ground for anyone who has already done therapy or read widely in this space. Readers new to the language of boundaries will find it genuinely illuminating; those already conversant with these concepts may feel the book stays at an introductory level. That said, Tawwab earns credit for writing about emotional health without the magical thinking that infects much of the wellness genre. She is straightforward, honest about the difficulty of change, and practically useful.