Every couple fights—it’s how you fight that can determine the success of your relationship. This book teaches you to look beyond what you and your partner fight about, and discover the core issues that undermine your relationship.In the midst of a disagreement, many couples ask themselves, “What are we really fighting about?” Sound familiar? As it turns out, breakups and divorce don’t happen because couples fight, they happen because of

Every couple fights—it’s how you fight that can determine the success of your relationship. This book teaches you to look beyond what you and your partner fight about, and discover the core issues that undermine your relationship.In the midst of a disagreement, many couples ask themselves, “What are we really fighting about?” Sound familiar? As it turns out, breakups and divorce don’t happen because couples fight, they happen because of how couples fight. In this m...

An expert clinician brings attachment theory into the realm of parenting skills.Attachment security and affect regulation have long been buzzwords in therapy circles, but many of these ideas—so integral to successful therapeutic work with kids and adolescents— have yet to be effectively translated to parenting practice itself. Moreover, as neuroscience reveals how the human brain is designed to work in good relationships, and how such relationships are central to healthy human deve...

**The first-ever user-friendly guide to Bert Hellinger’s Family Constellations—a powerful group therapy method for interrupting intergenerational trauma, healing painful family patterns, and reclaiming your own empowered narrativeIncludes insights on somatic wisdom, the seven stages of a constellation session, and bringing relational dynamics into awareness for healing and growth**In Family Constellations, Joy Manné introduces the groundbreaking work of Bert Hellin...

Bad habits: we all have them! But what happens when these bad habits extend to our relationships? Whether it's interrupting your partner mid-sentence, acting bored when they are speaking, or teasing them in hurtful ways—over time these bad habits can lead to resentment, and can mean the difference between a wonderful, close relationship, and one characterized by conflict or unhappiness. Fortunately, for all of us, good relationship habits can be learned (or re-learned), and bad habits can ...

undefinedWhen does true love give in? When does true love push back? Break Through shows you how to love and how to set effective limits so that everybody wins.Most of our relationships may be healthy and satisfying, but we often have one or two important people who change the rules and drive us crazy-a deadbeat dad, an alcoholic spouse, a wayward child, a demanding boss, a lazy roommate. Leading Christian counselor Tim Clinton and noted author Pat Springle, help y...

This easy-to-read book of thoughts has been written as a companion for young wives whose love stories may not fit into a fairy tale... I advise you take one thought per day, like a pill. it is refreshing, appealing, encouraging, and it's on your side.Get it.

"Off, Odd, Different… Special? Learning Disabilities, ADHD, Aspergers Syndrome, and Giftedness in Couples and Couple Therapy." When the therapist or a partner wonders if someone seems off, odd, different, or special, it is a clinical clue to the underlying issues causing dysfunction in the couple. Some individuals have demanded disproportionate time, attention, and energy from childhood and now as adults stress partners in the intimate relationship… and the therapist in session. Learning d...

Expand Your Clinical Practice with this Practical Hands-on GuideTeach conflict resolution skills to your couplesIntrospective quizzes expose more of couples' inner lives and past history to each otherReal-life exercises let couples practice cooperative decision- making and compromise before a crisis happens.Couples will discover and have the opportunity to change bad habits which threaten the viability of the relationship.The...

Family Art Therapy is designed to help the reader incorporate clinical art therapy intervention techniques into family therapy practice. Expressive modalities are often used in work with families, particularly visual art forms, and there is already considerable evidence and literature that point to a positive link between the two. This text is unique in that it draws together, for the first time in a single volume, an overview of the evolution of the theories and techniques from t...

If you have recently gone through a divorce, you might have unresolved feelings of anger toward your ex spouse; find yourself reeling from past betrayals both big and small; become stressed when you think about the legal and emotional ramifications of the divorce; or you may even experience symptoms of depression. You are not alone, and there are ways you can start to heal.The Divorce Recovery Workbook offers a unique approach using mindfulness and positive psychology to h...

Press “send” for amazing results! With 52 E-mails to Transform Your Marriage, you’ll find a year’s worth of e-mails to help you reconnect with your spouse, reignite intimacy, and keep your love alive.There’s no doubt marriage can be a challenge—we’ve all heard that half of marriages end in divorce. A common problem you may face as a couple is feeling stuck or disconnected—lonely within the marriage—as if you and your spouse were worlds apart, even as you p...