Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life. With instructive life stories, personal reflections, exercises, and self-tests, Codependent No More is a simple, straightforward, readable map of the perplexing world of codependency-charting the path to freedom and a lifetime of healing, hope, and happiness. Melody Beattie is the author of Beyond Codependency, The Language of Letting Go, Stop Being Mean to Yourself, The Codependent No More Workbook and Playing It by Heart. Radical Honesty: How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth
Radical Honesty is not a kinder, gentler self-help book. In it Dr. Brad Blanton, a psychotherapist and expert on stress management, explodes the myths, superstitions, and lies by which we live. He shows us how stress comes not from the environment, but from the self-built jail of the mind. What keeps us in our self-built jails is lying. "We all lie like hell," Dr. Blanton says. "It wears us out...it is the major source of all human stress. It kills us." Not telling our friends, lovers, spouses, or bosses about what we do, feel, or think keeps us locked in that jail. The way out is to get good at telling the truth. Dr. Blanton provides the tools we can use to escape the jail of the mind. This book is the cake with the file in it. In Radical Honesty, Dr. Blanton coaches us on how to have lives that work, how to have relationships that are alive and passionate, and how to create intimacy where none exists. As we have been taught by the philosophical and spiritual sources of our culture for thousands of years, from Plato to Nietzsche, from the Bible to Emerson, the truth shall set you free. Practical Intuition in Love: Start a Journey Through Pleasure to the Love of Your Life
The journey to love begins with opening yourself to pleasure. Indulging in things that make you happy stimulates the love inside youthe magnet that will draw comparable partners effortlessly. Once you have reconnected with joy, you are ready to lay the groundwork for setting your Love Goal: what you truly want. Day helps you define the "perfect" partner and love relationship and tells you how to make them a reality. But does your life have room for love? Discover how to ready every aspect of your life, including clearing emotional spaceletting go of past experiences and allowing yourself to grieve over the hurt as well as reclaim lost pieces of yourself. Day also explains how to create an environment in which love can find you, focusing on how to repattern both your inner and outer self. With warmth and compassion, she guides you to confront hidden issues you may have about love relationships and examine the ways on which you present yourself to the world and interact with others. The basis of any good romance is friendship. The author demonstrates how practicing relationship skills through interactions with friends can smooth the way for dealing with the highs and lows of romantic connections. In addition, she offers a wealth of advice on forming support networks with intimates and trusted colleagues that can help you finish resolving past conflicts and make space for love. Here too are strategies and methods for working through difficulties inherent in romantic relationships. Learn the fine art of both sharing and hearinggood communication (not only thoughts and feelings, but needs and expectations, too)for resolving differences and enhancing your romantic bonds. Finally, the author provides advice on maintaining boundaries, whether you are in a relationship por just beginning to date, to separate and appreciate your "couple self" and your "individual self." As you gain more insight about yourself and your partner, you will be able to bring positive changes to your relationship that will nourish and sustain you both. Whether you're searching for love or have already found it, Practical Intuition in Love will help you add pleasure and achieve deep fulfillment in all your relationships as it leads you to connect with your authentic self. When it comes to true love, trust your instinctsand Laura Day. This book will show you how to use your intuition to help you find a lover if that is what you wantor how to enrich your existing love relationship. You will learn a practical method not only for attracting what you want, but also for discovering what it is you truly want in the first place. Practical Intuition in Love will help you become more intimate and intuitively connected not only to your environment and others, but also to yourself. This book will enhance your ability to bring pleasure to all of your relationships while putting the love back into your life and the joy back into the way you love. It will heighten your perception and experience of please, as well as provide a step-by-step system to attract the love you want, or to transform the love you already have. Existential Sexuality; Choosing to Love.
If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single?: Ten Strategies That Will Change Your Love Life Forever
"Behold a wonder–a romantic self-help book that is intelligent, upbeat, practical, useful, winning, and even wise." –Kirkus Reviews One to One : Understanding Personal Relationships
Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage
"Anyone involved in, embarking on, or yearning for, an intimate relationship should buy, borrow or steal INTIMATE PARTNERS." New Woman That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships
The New Couple: Why the Old Rules Don't Work and What Does
Taylor and McGee's "Ten New Laws of Love"—based not only on what they've learned in their practice working two-on-two with couples from all over the world, but also on what's made their own marriage thrive—put couples andsingles on the path to attaining success in love. Each chapter introduces a basic principle such as chemistry, equality, and peacemaking, and through examples and powerful pointers, teaches you how to incorporate these natural relationship "laws" into your own couple, so that you and your partner can transform your troubles into triumphs and your frustration into satisfaction. Simple checklists help to determine what's working, what isn't, and how to progress toward more healthy, enduring love. For all couples—living together or married, straight or gay, with children or without—The New Couple offers tools for emotionally and sexually fulfilling relationships that last. In the quest for safety, belonging, continuity, and comfort, we too often fall back on traditional, deeply ingrained expectations and assumptions about relationships, including such stifling stereotypes as the male provider and the good wife and mother. But these conventions ignore our individual needs to learn to love ourselves and to find and fulfill our true life's work, as well as our need for a more authentic, ongoing emotional connection to our mate. Maxims such as "do something nice for each other every day," "be positive," "never go to bed angry," and "treat your spouse as you would a stranger" are hardly sufficient to heal serious rifts and re-establish all-important trust. Taylor and McGee provide the keys for a deeper understanding of modern partners' "higher order needs" and the tools for their fulfillment within the context of a committed, loving, and honest relationship. |