Melissa Urban on Boundaries and Ending Resentment, Burnout, and Anxiety

Topic: The Book of Boundaries: End Resentment, Burnout, and Anxiety - and Reclaim Your Time, Energy, Health, and Relationships (Penguin Canada)

By: Melissa Urban

Melissa Urban, CEO, Whole30; best-selling author

In Conversation with Erica Ehm, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, Ehm & Co.; host of the podcast Reinvention of the VJ; author; playwright; songwriter

Set the limits that will set you free. From the beloved co-founder of the Whole30, this straightforward and practical guide to setting boundaries will revolutionize your relationships.

Do your relationships often feel one-sided or unbalanced? Are you always giving in just so things will go smoothly? Do you wish you could learn to say no—but, like, nicely? Are you depleted, overwhelmed, and tired of putting everyone else’s needs ahead of your own? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need to establish some boundaries.

Since launching the mega-bestselling wellness program the Whole30, Melissa Urban has taught millions of people how to establish healthy habits and successfully navigate pushback and peer pressure. She knows firsthand that boundaries—clear limits you establish to protect your energy, time, and health—are all that stand between you and feelings of security, confidence, and freedom.

Now, in The Book of Boundaries, she shows you how boundaries are the key to better mental health, increased energy, improved productivity, and more fulfilling relationships.

In her famously direct and compassionate style, Urban offers:

• 130+ scripts with language you can use to instantly establish boundaries with bosses and co-workers, romantic partners, parents and in-laws, co-parents, friends, family, neighbors, strangers—and yourself

• actionable advice to help you communicate your needs with clarity and compassion

• tips for successfully navigating boundary guilt, pushback, pressure, and oversteps

• techniques to create healthy habits around food, drink, technology, and more

User-friendly and approachable, The Book of Boundaries will give you the tools you need to stop justifying, minimizing, and apologizing, leading you to more rewarding relationships and a life that feels bigger, healthier, and freer.

Melissa Urban is CEO of the Whole30 and an authority on helping people create lifelong healthy habits. She is a six-time New York Times bestselling author (including the #1 bestseller The Whole30); and has been featured by Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and CNBC.

She lives with her husband, son, and a poodle named Henry in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Erica Ehm is an entrepreneur, creator, and force for positive change. Originally a MuchMusic television host, Erica’s is considered a pioneer in content marketing, social media and community building. She is founder of the digital agency Ehm & Co, and YMC.ca platform, serving the Canadian mom market. Under Erica’s leadership over 15 years, her companies earned over a dozen prestigious awards, including a Governor General’s Innovation Award nomination. She is co-founder of The InsideOut Initiative, a non-profit community MEpowering all youth to learn, live and work from the inside out.

Erica continues to expand her multimedia portfolio as an author, journalist, playwright, awarding-winning songwriter and sought-after speaker in the leadership space. She recently co-produced and hosts the podcast, Reinvention of the VJ and co-wrote the kids’ musical series Outta The Books.

This event is available to attend in-person or virtually via livestream.

Rotman Events is committed to accessibility for all people. If you have any access needs or if there are any ways we can support your full participation in this session, please email Mandi Gosling [[email protected]] no later than 2 weeks in advance of the event and we will be glad to work with you to make the appropriate arrangements.

• The event will be hosted in Desautels Hall at the Rotman School of Management (105 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 3E6). Your registration fee includes a seat at the session, access to a video replay of the session for 30 days and you will receive a hardcover copy of the book when you arrive.

• Rotman Events will email registrants a link to the livestream. Your registration fee includes access to the livestream, video replay for 30 days, a hardcover copy of the book and shipping fees. The book will be shipped to registrants after the event. Please allow 3 - 4 weeks for delivery.

• Unable to attend the event due to scheduling conflicts? Not to worry. All registrants (in-person or livestream) can access the full recording on-demand for one month after the live event.

• Refunds will only be issued for cancellations received in writing NO LATER than 24 hours prior to the event. Please email [email protected] for processing.

• In-person registrants who do not pick up their book at the event will have 5 business days to request postal delivery by emailing us at [email protected]. All unclaimed books will be returned to the publisher after that time.

Questions: [email protected], Mandi Gosling

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Rotman School of Management + Livestream, 105 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada