Download or read book Intimacy Missing Peace in the Puzzle of True Love Close Relationships written by Terrence Richburg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So what do you do when this thing called life breaks down and falls apart at the seams? What happens when all your efforts to cope only bring temporary peace and contentment in the face of certain failure? How do you attempt to solve the puzzle and put all the pieces back together again? Explore the true power of intimacy as experienced in contemporary life situations. Examine its depth and dynamic application within human relationships and investigate why Gods view of intimacy is so essential, both for today and for all eternity. Enter the world of intimacy at your own risk; you may just find exactly what youre looking for, or you might just find precisely what you werent expecting. --- Regrettably, this weekend represented what had become somewhat of a perpetual routine for Chris and Amanda. It began sometime agoan appointment of intrinsic fate, habitual yet not apparent to them. Even so, with an air of understatement emerging, on this particular weekend things would prove to be just a little different somehow, for they were destined to live in the impossible. Amanda and Christopher were about to encounter a miracle of incomparable proportions, both independently and together. This day of all days would prove to be the turning pointthe one day that would change their lives forever. Like a rope tightly woven of thin silk strands of time and suspended reaction, it all appears fragile at a glance and a stare. But its strength may only be recognized through a blind touch in the dark.
Download or read book Intimacy written by Daniel Linder and published by DoctorZed Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRUE LOVE IS ATTAINABLE! When you accept the premise that true love is essentially intimacy, you can begin learning and applying basic principles for creating intimate relationships. When it comes to attainability and sustainability, gaining some basic relationship knowledge and wisdom can be the difference between the search and discovery. "Never before has the process of developing a healthy relationship from the point of initial contact been detailed, a map provided for one of the most important journeys of our lives: the intimacy journey. Linder packs a huge amount of 'back to basics' information into relatively little space." Neil Kobrin, PhD.
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Shirley Smith and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're tired of searching for true love or thinking of breaking up - don't call it quits before you read this book!Is someone you love having an affair, misappropriating funds or deliberately hiding harmful and hurtful behaviours? Maybe you are the one who is guilty of keeping secrets?Secrets, lies or what we justifiably cover up, are the real betrayals in relationships. When we hide things from our partner or from ourselves we sever our connection - and the love, passion and intimacy we've built starts to break down. This creates loneliness, anxiety, withholding, jealousy, distrust, infidelity, depression and lack of confidence.This indispensable guide from the best selling author of Set Yourself Free offers vital information and easy to follow exercises. Smith gives you the key to go behind closed doors where you will find solutions and learn how to create fulfilling relationships and lasting intimacy.Stop the Drama. Release your Pain and Guilt. Learn how to Love Again.
Download or read book The Shadow Side of Intimate Relationships written by Douglas Moseley and published by Moseley Method. This book was released on with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadow Side Of Intimate Relationships takes a very real look at intimate relationship and what is occurring beneath each partner's surface awareness when un-nourishing patterns of behavior begin to get locked into place. It sheds light on aspects that intimate partners seldom recognize or want to confront and takes the view that both partners must become more aware of themselves, at deeper levels, warts and all, if they want to experience an authentic, enduring love. “Doug and Naomi Moseley are experts when it comes to the underbelly [shadow side] of relationships. This book is a must- read for folks who desire a deeper understanding of marriage dynamics.” John Bradshaw, author, Healing the Shame That Binds You “A real book for real people who are lost in power struggle and want to find their way to love and passion in marriage.” John Gray, Ph.D., author, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus "With incredible clarity, uncompromising truth, and rare and refreshing wisdom, the Moseleys have written a life-changing book that will help couples create profoundly intimate relationships.” Marriage Magazine “Terrific! A great leap forward in the process of personal development through relationship. Very highly recommended.” Brugh Joy, M.D., F.A.C.P., author, Joy’s Way, Avalanche “The authors have managed to integrate deep psychological information into a down-to-earth, workable model. This book is a must-read for individuals, couples, and helping professionals.” Pat Love, Ed.D., Past President, International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, co-author, Hot Monogamy “. . . an invaluable resource for understanding the full range of life’s most rigorous spiritual practice: the art and craft of relationship. This book gives a realistic and inspiring vie w of ho w enriching and challenging an authentic intimate relationship can be.” Angeles Arrien, Ph.D., Cultural Anthropologist, author, The Four-Fold Way, Signs of Life
Download or read book The Future of Love written by Daphne Rose Kingma and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The future of relationships is moving us toward the vaulting awareness of who we really are as human beings, something we have managed to avoid for a very long time by being so thoroughly committed to convention...This is the future of love--vast love, love beyond boundaries, love without preconceptions and judgments, love without outdated myths--love which can actually be experienced." At a time when over half of all marriages are ending in divorce, Daphne Rose Kingma, a well-known therapist and relationship expert, has recognized that our familiar ways of thinking about relationships are no longer working. "I have written this book because it is clear that many of our previous assumptions about relationships need to be dismantled," writes Kingma. "As we go through this process, we will discover a number of new ideas: that our relationships can have different forms than we ever imagined; that they will serve different purposes; that they will require different offerings from us. They will also bring us new gifts." We are in the midst of a sea change, in which not only are many traditional relationships failing, but unexpected new arrangements are beginning to appear; gay marriages are surfacing, step-families abound, and many people are consciously choosing to live alone. As Kingma explains, these transformations should not be feared; instead, they represent a real opportunity. In the past, conventional relationships were often destroyed by an overemphasis on the nuts and bolts of psychology, on working to achieve the unattainable "perfect relationship" while ignoring our most vital selves--our souls. The glorious message of The Future of Love is that the disturbing changes we are all experiencing are actually part of the soul's plan, as it breaks down outdated conventions to bring us a new, fuller understanding of love.
Download or read book Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships written by Jon Carlson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult—but also one of the most common—factors in the destruction of any relationship. Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships lays out practical, evidence-based guidelines on which clinicians can depend as they wade through the intense emotions and fragile bonds of couples in crisis. With care and sensitivity, the book's authors analyze the increasingly complex context in which the cycle of intimacy develops, wanes, and recovers. The chapters delve into diverse populations' attitudes toward intimacy and provide an entire section on cultural, gender and religious issues. Clinicians looking for a research-based, practical take on the many facets of intimacy in the twenty-first century need look no further than this book.
Download or read book The Eight Levels of Intimacy written by Laura D. Lewis and published by Couples Company, Inc. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you "ve ever wondered why your relationships do not last; If you "ve ever been confused by your marria≥ If you "ve ever thought something was missing Your answers are here. This short book is for you, written concisely to provide the information you need quickly without weighing you down with a lot of why "s. It is that powerful.
Download or read book Your Spiritual Home Field Advantage A Book about Intimate Relationships written by Lisa Brabo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate Relationships can be a struggle. Hard to figure out. . Is your relationship right for you? . Why do some people find their perfect mates and others do not? . Can you "re-fresh" a relationship that's gone stale? What is a fresh, healthy relationship like? . Does everyone have a one-and-only true love? . Is love at first sight possible? . Do you feel alone in your relationship, but aren't sure what to do about it? . How can you feel so strongly about someone but that person not feel the same about you? . What does your relationship say about you? In Your Spiritual Home Field Advantage: A Book About Intimate Relationships, Dr. Brabo explores these perplexing questions and offers a model for understanding and thriving in the crazy world of love.
Download or read book The Intimacy Factor written by Pia Mellody and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first book in over 10 years, Pia Mellody—author of the groundbreaking bestsellers Facing Codependence and Facing Love Addiction—shares her profound wisdom on what it takes to sustain true intimacy and trusting love in our most vital relationships. Drawing on more than 20 years' experience as a counsellor at the renowned Meadows Treatment Centre in Arizona, Mellody now shares what she has learned about why intimate relationships falter—and what makes them work. Using the most up–to–date research and real–life examples, including her own compelling personal journey, Mellody provides readers with profoundly insightful and practical ground rules for relationships that achieve and maintain joyous intimacy. This invaluable resource helps diagnose the causes of faulty relationships—many of them rooted in childhood—and provides tools for readers to heal themselves, enabling them to establish and maintain healthy relationships.
Download or read book Awakened Relating written by Lynn Marie Lumiere and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Full of wisdom as well as practical guidance about how to bring spiritual illumination into the very heart of our humanness.” —John Welwood, author of Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships and Journey of the Heart Our natural state is to love and be loved. From deep within, we’re compelled to seek connection. Yet relationships remain a struggle—even for the most spiritually enlightened among us. Traumatic experiences, insecure attachment, and especially the false but commonly held belief that we are separate, both from each other and from the love we seek, can cause endless problems in relationships. As long as our connections are built on this untruth, lasting love and harmony in relationship will elude us. Awakened Relating can help. Written by a licensed therapist and pioneer in bringing the most direct teachings of non-duality into the practice of psychotherapy, this book offers practical guidance for improving relationships through “awakened relating”—a more enlightened experience of falling in love, communication, conflict resolution, and sexuality. With examples, guidelines, and experiential inquiries for realizing your true nature, this book will dispel common myths and mistaken beliefs about intimacy and help you cultivate a loving relationship with yourself and others. Including inspirational stories of people who practice awakened relating in their own lives, this book will show you how to identify, transform, and resolve the deep psychological issues that prevent you from having the harmonious, loving relationships you seek. Now is the time to realize the deep and ever-present love that exists within and all around you.
Download or read book A New Map for Relationships written by Martin E. . Hellman and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothie and Martin Hellman reveal the secrets that allowed them to transform an almost failed marriage into one where they reclaimed the true love that they felt when they first met fifty years ago. Surprisingly, they found that working on interpersonal and international challenges at the same time accelerated progress on both.
Download or read book The Seven Levels of Intimacy written by Matthew Kelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We All Crave An Authentic Experience Of Intimacy. Though our hearts crave intimacy, though our minds understand our deep need for it, the self-revelation it requires is often too daunting a task. Complete and unrestrained sharing of self exposes the deepest human fear of being rejected for being ourselves. InThe Seven Levels of Intimacy,Matthew Kelly both acknowledges and calms our fears, while teaching us how to move beyond them to experience the power of true intimacy.Matthew reveals that each relationship is built upon a pattern of interaction. In the beginning stages, we rely on casual interactions, gaining familiarity by focusing on superficialities and facts. We grow closer and begin to share our opinions, learning to accept each other and embrace the growing relationship despite the difference in our experiences and viewpoints. Once our differences and opinions are shared and accepted, we feel safe enough to reveal our hopes, dreams, and feelings, developing trust. With this trust, we open ourselves and are able to share our legitimate needs, becoming liberated from carrying the burden of our real needs alone. At last, we are deeply intimate and both willing and able to reveal our deepest fears. We are beyond judgment and feel trust and acceptance. By moving through and building upon each level of intimacy, we find comfort and gain trust in our partners and ourselves until, by developing and deepening our intimacy within each level, we are able to fully open ourselves, finally opening to the possibility of truly being loved. It is through mastering the seven levels of intimacy that we will break through to fully experiencing love, commitment, trust, and happiness.The Seven Levels of Intimacyis a brilliant and practical guide to creating and sustaining intimacy, whether you are looking for a deeper sense of connection with your spouse, looking for more fulfillment in your relationship with your boyfriend or girlfriend, trying to improve your relationships with your children, or simply wondering what you should be looking for in a partner.With profound insight and the use of powerful, everyday examples, Matthew Kelly explains how we can nurture the intimacy in our relationships.The Seven Levels of Intimacyredefines how we view our interactions with others. This new understanding leads us to successfully create the strong connections, deep joy, and lasting bonds that we all long for.
Download or read book From Impasse to Intimacy written by David Shaddock and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text identifies the unconscious factors that influence the way people feel and behave in intimate relationships, covering the needs and fears that create and sustain dysfunctional patterns of relating. It illustrates concepts that should help to make relational transformation possible.
Download or read book Neurodiverse Relationships written by Joanna Stevenson and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of the accounts of twelve heterosexual couples in which the man is on the Autism Spectrum, this book invites both partners to discuss their own perspectives of different key issues, including anxiety, empathy, employment and socialising. Autism expert Tony Attwood contributes a commentary and a question and answer section for each of the twelve accounts. The first book of its kind to provide perspectives from both sides of a relationship on a variety of different topics, Neurodiverse Relationships is the perfect companion for couples in neurodiverse relationships who are trying to understand one another better.
Download or read book Beyond Intimacy written by Stephanie Akubue and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-03 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just like the oxygen we breath to remain alive, we all need love in order to experience the thrill and beauty that life has to offer. No matter how we pretend not to need love, in time, we are always awakened by this reality. Little wonder some people travel far and wide in search of love, most times searching in the wrong places. Ironically, what they search afar is within their closet. Some have lost good people, while looking for ideals that are too far-fetched from reality. Other times, we are so consumed with superficial things, neglecting the real substance, only to experience regret, disappointment, depression and so many other negative emotions. There are so many good people out there, who are willing to love genuinely with all their heart. Unfortunately, these are ideal prey for the bad ones out there. In the end, they get used, drained, disappointed, hurt and dumped. What a cruel society! Like I always say, our society is filled with all sort of snakes, scorpions, sharks, tigers in form of human beings, especially in the wake of internet and social media. They seem nice, well-mannered, supportive, charismatic, disciplined, neat and always make a good impression about themselves. On the contrary, they are the worst kind of people to deal with because they are direct opposite of everything they seem to be. They have mastered the game of deceit, almost impossible to be unmasked until they have completed their mission, short or long term. Our society is so fake that you can only see what they want you to see. On the other hand, social media and the internet is not helping matters. It has become a tool for deception, enabling people to showcase a fake reality of themselves. Armed with their smart phones and other digital devices, they can influence other people's perception about them. You see people taking pictures in exotic places, expensive cars, showcasing a lifestyle that is so far from their present lifestyle.Love is beautiful, especially when you know you are with the right person. How do you know that he/she is the right person in the first place? What do you need to know before going into a relationship? Beyond sex or romance, what else are you bringing to the table? How can you keep that fire burning amidst all challenges, trials or tribulations that you may experience in a relationship? All these and more you will find in this book.
Download or read book Transformative Love written by Hugo Elfinstone and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's great wisdom traditions say that love is the ultimate reality of existence. In human romantic relationships, the more we strive to reflect that divine, universal love, the more harmony and freedom we will have with our partner. Real love has no agendas, no attachments, no ideas, no demands, and no conditions. These are all things we add to the experience of love which begin to contaminate our love, and which also begin to confuse us about what love is. Real, uncontaminated love has one simple agenda-to love! Transformative Love is an invitation to explore a new way of looking at love and offers practical guidance to creating passionate, harmonious and gratifying relationships.
Download or read book True Love Code written by Brenda D Doucette and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRUE LOVE CODE for all modern lovers by Brenda D. Dooucette. This book will lead you to a life long journey of pure and true love. For him and for her. The finest approach to imagine love is as a verb. Love is dynamic and requires action to develop. "Often, we squander our time obsessing about what our partner feels about us or how the relationship seems from the outside. Even if it is nice to be loved by someone else, each one of us can only genuinely experience our own emotions for another person and not that other's feelings for us. In order to connect with and develop those loving feelings within ourselves, we have to undertake acts that are kind. Otherwise, we may be living in fantasy." It's not uncommon to find yourself doubting if you've found true love. After all, you may experience tremendously intense sentiments of compassion and adoration toward your partner, but how can you know if these sensations actually qualify as true love? Fortunately, there are eight essential signals that could help you determine if what you've met is genuine love or whether it's too good to be true. What does true love truly mean? In order to find out if you've experienced genuine love, it's necessary to first know what true love actually involves. Essentially, pure love means that you have an unshakable, indestructible and unequaled affection and devotion for your spouse. It's also defined by an emotional as well as physical connection with him or her that goes endlessly deep, and life without your significant other would be practically inconceivable. A fear of intimacy affects most of us at one point or another. Being intimate and emotionally invested may be risky. You don't have to keep pushing people away out of fear. Practice the steps above, and notice the connections you can establish. If the future of the marriage is on the line over intimacy problems or you detect intimacy issues indications in marriage, get this true love code for married, about to wed and singles course now and fix your relationship today.
