Family & Relationships

A bold rethinking of the wedding ceremony - and what comes before and after - designed to prepare us for modern marriage.

Many couples today feel uncomfortable with the rituals traditionally associated with getting married. The old ceremonies can feel too overtly religious and out of step with the complexities of contemporary relationships. In response to this dilemma, The School of Life has rethought the ideal wedding day and redesigned the entire process from scratch.

The book begins by proposing new methods of psychological preparation, providing practical advice on how to prepare not only for the day of the wedding, but for the long marriage that follows. Also included is a practical and thoughtfully redesigned wedding ceremony, covering everything from picking a venue to writing vows and selecting readings.

With their trademark wisdom and warmth, The School of Life presents a bold rethinking of one of humankind's most important and popular rituals.

• AN OUTLINE FOR A NEW KIND OF WEDDING CEREMONY: based on psychological theory rather than religious traditions.
  
• INCLUDES PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION: for marriage preparation, as well as advice for married life.
• GENDER INCLUSIVE: and non-heteronormative.
• PART OF THE NEW PAPERBACK SERIES 'LESSONS FOR LIFE'

A book to offer clarity and guidance when facing the difficult decision of whether your relationship has a future

Should you stay or leave?

Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship is one of the most consequential and painful decisions we are ever likely to confront.

What makes the issue so hard is that there are no fixed rules for judgment. How can we tell whether a relationship is “good enough” or just not the right fit? How do we draw the line between longing and naivety? Is sex vital or can a relationship survive without it? Does someone “better” actually exist? How much should the feelings of children be considered (and what might they be in the long term)? Could one’s partner change, perhaps with therapy, or should one assume that who they are now is who they will always be?

All these questions typically haunt us as we weigh whether to stay or go. With no ax to grind, or ideology to promote, this book takes the reader (gently) through their options and opens their mind to perspectives they might not have considered. The goal is to help clarify what the reader wants—truly wants—deep down, so that the answer that emerges will be properly attuned to their unique circumstances and often very private aspirations. Here is a tool that carries the promise of the future we deserve.

This book aims to take the reader towards a time, perhaps presently hard to imagine, when the choice of whether to stay or go will no longer feel so agonizing. This book helps us understand ourselves deeply, helps us consider our options, minimize our regrets—and find the way ahead.

A Stanford University Press classic.

Joshua W. White is a combat veteran who served during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His story of what it’s like growing up in a fly-over state, riddled with poverty and drugs, and how the Marine Corps calling changed his life forever is one that everyone needs to hear.

Among the Greatest is a real life testimonial from the front lines of a major US conflict, and the struggle to readjust back into society as a young man.

For any person who is suffering with PTSD, or who lives with daily adversity, this is testament to weathering the toughest storms and putting yourself back to work. The hardest thing anyone could ever do is admit their mistakes, accept something is wrong, or recognize they NEED help. It’s important to share that even during the toughest of days, there are lessons to be learned within the chaos. It's those lessons that often lead to some of the greatest outcomes in life. As long as you are breathing, you are still in the fight, and you can make a difference. Joshua is a mentor that encourages readers to put a stake in the ground and make the decision to never give up!

"Your partner can and should meet all of your emotional needs." "All disagreements can and should be resolved." “Great relationships require little maintenance.”

Old models of marriage such as these are crumbling. Divorce rates remain high. Many people are skeptical and mistrustful about having real love in their lives. It's clear people need new models to help them connect with each other in meaningful, lasting ways. It's time to break free from old patterns of commitment and to forge new pathways for healthy, thriving, deeply loving relationships.

This hope-filled resource for developing soulful, mature love is aimed at committed couples who are looking to build, maintain and glorify the sacred in their relationship. It creates a context for couples to honor the gradual movement from physical “flight-fight-freeze” body-based survival to more heart-filled, communication-oriented love, to spiritual awakening and soul-purpose fulfillment. It encourages couples—as individuals and as partners—to let go of dysfunctional, hurtful, restrictive behavior in favor of liberating self-concepts and belief systems. It provides solutions for communicating and problem-solving more effectively, allowing each partner in the relationship to experience more emotional intimacy, joy and sexual pleasure. The book provides relationship information, practical tools and inspirational, real-life stories. It also offers a banquet of spiritual practices for couples of all faiths—or none—to bring these new models into focused action.

Straightforward and nonjudgmental advice for dating couples, partners,
husbands and wives, in-laws, counselors and others.

Interfaith relationships are commonplace; the challenges that go along with them are not. An interfaith couple will have to confront tough questions, yet it’s often difficult to find answers, especially when traditional sources of help—family, friends, clergy and counselors—are unable or unwilling to understand the problems.

From a Jewish perspective, this book guides interfaith couples at any stage of their relationship—from dating and engagement, to the wedding and marriage—and the people who are affected by their relationship in any way, including their families and counselors who work with interfaith couples.

While making no judgments or dictating answers, and supporting individual choice, topics covered include:

• What is an intermarriage?
• Why do people intermarry?
• When do you bring up the subject of religion?
• What is conversion and is it necessary?
• When do you discuss and decide how children will be raised?
• … and much more!

Learning to look at life with four eyes and two hearts joined into one soul

Continuing his transmission of 2,000-year-old Polynesian wisdom that began with The Pleasure Prescription, Paul Pearsall introduces in this new book what be calls "naupaka love" or aloha kakou—love shared, profound companionship, surrendering to a relationship in all its dimensions and embracing it as a lifelong mission of discovery and mutual pleasure.

Our society tells us that individual success and self-fulfillment are the keys to happiness. This book asks, If that is true, why do so many of us—even those who are in a relationship—feel unhappy and alone? And it answers that there is no joy if there is no one to share it with. As a poet said long ago, "No man is an island .... "

A uniquely warm combination of oral wisdom and current research, Partners in Pleasure is nothing less than a re-visioning of marriage. It offers eight lessons in mahele (sharing)—eight pleasure prescriptions for partners, from dreaming die same dream to becoming one body. Woven throughout are partnering tests; relationship lessons from Hawai`i's foremost kupuna (elders) and kahuna (healers or priests); and insights from Dr. Pearsall's own work and seminars.

Partners in Pleasure shows couples how they can come together to face the challenges of life—conflict, sexual compatibility, child-rearing, career setbacks and getting old—and grow ever stronger together, united in heart.

Every couple for whom marriage is forever unearths nuggets of wisdom along the way. In Love for a Lifetime: Daily Wisdom and Wit for a Long and Happy Marriage, columnist Mary Hance shares a wealth of golden tips, collected far and wide from young couples just setting out to those whose wedding vows still echo through half a century and more. Here are a few:

• “Throw the word fair out the window. In one year of a marriage, one person may need 99 percent of the love, effort, or focus of the other; another year, it may be just the opposite.”
• “What my father always told me when I was planning my wedding: ‘You have to want to have a marriage, not just a wedding. Remember the difference.’ ”
• “Learn fast that the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence!”
  
• “After several years of marriage, there is no way I’m training another husband, so I will just keep the one I have!”

Feeling that you and your spouse need some new sparkle for that old marriage, but you’re too busy to take a seminar? Here is a guide filled with simple pointers for reviving the luster in that all-important relationship. In 75 Things To Improve Your Marriage Without Your Spouse Even Knowing, Barbara Bartlein offers an array of tips for rubbing the tarnish from the routine. Here are a few:

• Put out the fancy dishes for no particular reason
• Surprise them with a water balloon!
• Compliment them in public
• Dance in the living room
• Say, “I have confidence in you,” and say it often
• Have an attitude of gratitude

Helpful Strategies for Improving Your Marriage

Movies like Sleepless in Seattle and An Affair to Remember bombard people with bad ideas about love. We are led to believe that if you meet the “right person” and fall in love, your marriage will thrive and you will be happy. However, while love is important, stable marriages are not based on love alone.

Barbara Bartlein has worked with hundreds of couples as they have worked to save their marriages, and in Why Did I Marry You Anyway? she shares the secrets of what they have learned together. A happy, successful marriage almost always is the result of hard work and commitment, she says, but all too often people don’t know what to do to improve their marriages. This book fills that gap. With 15 strategies that cover all the common problems in relationships—like money, children, sex, and in-laws—Bartlein tells couples what to do and shows them how to do it.

Each chapter addresses one of these important relationship-building strategies. First, a common complaint is explored. Second, common myths that block solutions to the problem are identified and helpful ways of countering them suggested. Third, case studies illustrate the concepts in action with real couples. Finally, quizzes and tools provide opportunities to practice these new skills and behaviors. The result is a helpful, humorous, and easy-to-read book that will result in positive changes in the lives of those who read it and put its strategies into practice.

Nearly everyone has heard of the Ten Commandments. Most people can even name a few of them. For fifty-five years Mac and Amy McNair have used the commandments to establish the basic guidelines for their own marriage. In Ten Principles for a Successful Marriage they share these principles and illustrate them with personal stories from their own marriage as well as from couples they have counseled.

While at first these insights may seem like nothing more than common courtesy—or for that matter just plain common sense—the McNairs acknowledge them as the foundation on which their long-lived marriage is built, and they firmly believe that other couples can strengthen their marriages by following these ten biblically-based principles.

"Ten Principles for a Successful Marriage is a masterpiece. We use it in answering the many letters and phone calls we receive from troubled couples." —Ruth Stafford Peale, Co-founder, Publisher, and Chairman of the Board, Guideposts

As a young widow, Ashley Bugge was suddenly faced with the task of raising two young children and a newborn child without the support of her spouse. Could she do it alone? 

The Ocean is Calling exposes the realities of a life’s greatest love and loss: the unexpected death of a spouse, followed by giving birth to a child, alone. Facing insurmountable grief, Ashley Bugge takes readers through a journey like no other—from a bitter dark night with a bottle of sleeping pills in her hand to giving birth alone, to a no-holds-barred expedition through eight countries with her three young children in tow.

Ashley holds nothing back as she includes readers on her real-time voyage through incredible states, countries and oceans. She shares daring, challenging moments of donning scuba diving gear to explore the same water her husband took his last breath, traversing mountains in Switzerland, exploring WWII remains in Poland, and grappling with the struggles of a young widow raising three children on her own. 

The Ocean is Calling shares a journey of heartache, discovery, travel, family and exploration. Ashley hopes that her story will encourage readers to be confident and trust that whatever happens in life, there is hope and joy ahead. 

Listen, Learn, Love is a user-friendly guide filled with practical suggestions and simple skills anyone can use to create better relationships. And who doesn’t have at least one relationship in their life they would like to be better? While wanting a good relationship is a great beginning, building great relationships takes a few skills. Listen, Learn, Love is packed with concise and actionable tips shared with clarity, humor and authenticity, and shows readers how to dramatically improve their relationships in 30 days or less.

From Broken to Beautiful shows women how to adjust their communication with their husbands in order for them to have the relationship they truly desire. From Broken to Beautiful walks women through Sarah Jane Patton’s real-life triumphs and tribulations that led her to healing and happiness. After reading From Broken to Beautiful, women and their husbands will:

Always Coming Back Home uses heartfelt stories and real-time emails sent from a deployed sailor to his bride, readers quickly become invested in this young family. The couple takes readers on adventures of sailing and scuba diving throughout the world. They also keep readers laughing as the couple becomes first time parents, anxious with them during military deployments, upset with them through miscarriages and family loss, and finally, heartbroken as it all comes to an end with a single phone call. Always Coming Back Home is a candid and raw account of two ordinary people coming together to accomplish extraordinary things.

After two divorces, Kathryn MacIntyre knew that a perfect marriage could be attainable. To seek out the answers to a perfect marriage, she traveled around the world and is now happily married. Within Marriage Made Easier, she uses her techniques as a certified laughter yoga instructor, teacher, and certified Rolfer to help others determine if divorce is right for them. In Marriage Made Easier, women learn how to:

Over the last twenty-five years, Co-Pastors Angela Yousey and her husband, Chris Yousey, have hosted marriage conferences and provided biblical counseling for many couples. Their church, Spirit of Love Ministries, evolved from the many marriages they’ve helped. Within Creating Unity, Angela and Chris teach married men and women:

For over thirty years, Dr. Cheri McDonald has helped her clients achieve the life of their dreams and a happily-ever-after marriage. By integrating rituals and symbolic steps to her teamwork-based approach, Dr. Cheri guides women within Heal Your Trauma, Heal Your Marriage on how to:

Author, lightworker, mother, and wife, Kelsey Domiana knows all too well what it means to feel unsupported and exhausted with raising a family. As her husband, a professional basketball player, is often traveling, she realized that she needed to reclaim her joy and find a support system. Kelsey knows that it’s not impossible to feel empowered when one’s husband is away. In Help! My Husband Is Hardly Home, she shares her truth of feeling the overwhelm, isolation, and frustration that comes with having a partner who works away from home. Through her empowering eight-step process, she reveals to women:

With thirty-eight years of experience helping nearly-weds and established couples, William Hutcheson is ready to help married couples have the happy relationship God intended for their marriage. In Marriage Maximized, couples learn:

When betrayal happens in a marriage, many couples face the decision to leave or divorce their spouse. However, it is possible to resolve a relationship after betrayal and to nurture a healthy relationship. In Roots of Forgiveness, Christine Elizabeth Leon provides an eight-step process to repair one’s marriage and ignite healing in their relationship. She created these steps by learning from her own personal journey, background in psychology, and life-coaching practice. Within Roots of Forgiveness, readers learn:

Being a mom in the military is very difficult because there is always the underlying uncertainty of what the military will bring next. A mom in the military worries about deploying and how her kids will manage once she does. The feeling of guilt emerges for making career choices that take a mother away from her family. In Military and Mindful, mothers in the military learn how to balance their military career and motherhood without the feelings of guilt or stress. Unlike any other resource currently available for active-duty moms, Military and Mindful offers a template to unleashing one’s internal power. In addition to promoting a focused and positive mindset, Benefsheh Verell reveals how harnessing one’s internal power is essential to living a First-Class life.

In Power Coupling, Katherine McClelland applies thirty years of coaching and training to share a step-by-step guide that helps readers alleviate the challenges of balancing their life and igniting their inner passion. It helps readers feel the sense of their power, impact, and influence as they learn and apply the material suggested within. Within Power Coupling, readers learn:

In Do I Need a Divorce to Be Happy?, Teri Grayner guides those who have spent their lives focusing on other people’s happiness to put themselves first without guilt. Her 10-Step REINVENTED Process covers everything one needs to learn to break free from financial codependency. Instead of spending years trying to balance marriage and one’s own dreams, open Do I Need a Divorce to Be Happy? because within readers learn:

Beyond Messy Relationships: Divine Invitations to Your Authentic Self

. . . is not only an intense and dramatic memoir. It is a mixture of psychological wisdom and spiritual inspiration.

Judy K. Herman brings hope through her formula of breathing in fresh A.I.R. The acronym for Awareness, Intentionality, and Risks of growth. 

Beyond Messy Relationships helps you learn to forgive and remember. You'll see that relationships are mirrors to your soul. They show us our blind spots giving us the ability to courageously grow and grow up. Emotions are valuable messengers designed to move and flow. 

Topics you'll discover include the messes beyond: 

• post-divorce issues
• single parenting and remarriage
• imposter syndrome
• betrayal and recovery

You'll learn to identify your own relationship dances (patterns) outlined in Beyond Messy Relationships. More importantly, you'll be able to co-create a different dance for a more resilient and growing relationship. 

• Discover you're not alone as you resonate with the messy relationships of a psychotherapist along with valuable life-lessons.
• Learn a simple formula breathing fresh A.I.R. to experience freedom from guilt and regret.
• Gain insights that inspire positive changes that last.
• Become shame resilient.
• Discover your true self and find joy beyond your messy relationships.

Since the book was released in September of 2019, there is now a different epilogue that became catalysts for more resources. 

To find out more about the story Beyond Messy Relationships get Judy's second book, Relationships With Purpose and tune into her podcast Better Relationships, Better Life. The books and podcast are great supplements to your own therapy if you are receiving psychotherapy. Both are also great book club discussions. Ask for the resource "Questions to Ponder."  

Judy has a growing youtube channel with teaching videos and interviews to help you with gain relationship strategies, tips and tools. 

Relationship is the natural state of being human and is fundamental to everyone’s experience of being known, valued, and fulfilled. So how is it that many relationships which begin with love or friendship turn sour … or even collapse?

In straightforward, lighthearted language, founders of RelationshipByDesign™ Lon and Sandy Golnick guide couples on a journey through their own experience, rather than feeding them data from endless studies of others in an attempt to help understand their own relationship. Readers discover how they were destined to experience disappointments, upsets, and frustrations in a relationship and why attempts to improve, fix, or change their relationship, their partner, and themselves only exacerbate the problems. Lon and Sandy disclose hidden truths about the nature and design of relationship and illuminate previously unseen mechanisms that undermine all relationships. Relationship: The Real Deal is an opportunity for couples to break free of relationship killers and experience freedom—a pathway for creating new relationship unfettered by the past.

Addressing the common issues in relationships, Shirley helps women realize that by understanding the needs of their man, changing their perception, and shifting how they act in the relationship, they have the power to create whatever they want. Get What You Want from Your Man is written by a woman, for women, yet includes both men’s and women’s perspectives to help women of all ages and stages of relationship. Whether readers have been in a relationship for 50 years, or haven’t yet begun one, Shirley holds their hand along the journey and helps create a permanent change in how women see and relate to their man, so they can get way more from him than ever thought possible. Best of all, this is all accomplished without encouraging manipulation, head games, or women losing themselves in the process of creating the relationship of their dreams.

Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood combines the best pieces from the award-winning zine Rad Dad and from the blog Daddy Dialectic, two kindred publications that have tried to explore parenting as political territory. Both of these projects have pushed the conversation around fathering beyond the safe, apolitical focus most books and websites stick to; they have not been complacent but have worked hard to create a diverse, multi-faceted space in which to grapple with the complexity of fathering.

Today more than ever, fatherhood demands constant improvisation, risk, and struggle. With grace and honesty and strength, Rad Dad’s writers tackle all the issues that other parenting guides are afraid to touch: the brutalities, beauties, and politics of the birth experience, the challenges of parenting on an equal basis with mothers, the tests faced by transgendered and gay fathers, the emotions of sperm donation, and parental confrontations with war, violence, racism, and incarceration. Rad Dad is for every father out in the real world trying to parent in ways that are loving, meaningful, authentic, and ultimately revolutionary.

Contributors Include:

Steve Almond, Jack Amoureux, Mike Araujo, Mark Andersen, Jeff Chang, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jeff Conant, Sky Cosby, Jason Denzin, Cory Doctorow, Craig Elliott, Chip Gagnon, Keith Hennessy, David L. Hoyt, Simon Knapus, Ian MacKaye, Tomas Moniz, Zappa Montag, Raj Patel, Jeremy Adam Smith, Jason Sperber, Burke Stansbury, Shawn Taylor, Tata, Jeff West, and Mark Whiteley.

¿Estás o has estado en alguna relación con una persona que parece incapaz de conectarse emocionalmente, y te sientes frustrada por ello? Este libro revela las claves para identificar a las personas emocionalmente no disponibles y ofrece soluciones prácticas para manejar su relación con ellas.

¿Alguna vez te han dicho que eres «una dramas» o que te pones muy intensa? ¿Sufres por «esa persona» pero eres incapaz de dejarla ir? ¿Sientes a tu pareja distante y ajena a tus preocupaciones? Este libro te ayudará a entender que el problema no eres tú, sino que hay personas emocionalmente no disponibles que no pueden ofrecerte la conexión que necesitas.

Con la guía experta de la psicóloga Encarni Romero, descubrirás cómo desenredar los hilos de las relaciones románticas y liberarte de vínculos que no te hacen feliz. Superar la negación, la rabia, la culpa que estas relaciones te generan y llegar finalmente a la aceptación y el crecimiento personal no es tarea fácil, pero ¡no estás sola en este camino! Encarni te acompañará paso a paso para que puedas crear vínculos sanos y duraderos.

Si estás lista para cultivar un apego seguro y, lo más importante, emprender el viaje hacia el amor propio, cimiento esencial para cualquier relación exitosa, este libro será tu aliado indispensable. ¡Transforma tu vida emocional y empieza a construir las relaciones que mereces!

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Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who seems emotionally unavailable, and you feel frustrated because of it? This book reveals the keys to identifying emotionally unavailable people and offers practical solutions for managing relationships with them.

Have you ever been told you're "dramatic" or "too intense"? Do you suffer for "that person" but can't seem to let them go? Do you feel your partner is distant and indifferent to your concerns? This book will help you understand that the problem isn't you; there are emotionally unavailable people who can't offer the connection you need.

With the expert guidance of psychologist Encarni Romero, you'll learn how to untangle the threads of romantic relationships and free yourself from bonds that don't make you happy. Overcoming the denial, anger, and guilt these relationships generate, and finally reaching acceptance and personal growth, isn't easy, but you're not alone on this journey! Encarni will guide you step by step so you can create healthy, lasting bonds.

If you're ready to cultivate secure attachment and, most importantly, embark on the journey to self-love, the essential foundation for any successful relationship, this book will be your indispensable ally. Transform your emotional life and start building the relationships you deserve!

Crea relaciones auténticas sin dejar de ser tú.

Si alguna vez te has preguntado «¿Por qué no puedo encontrar el tipo de vínculo que anhelo?», «¿Soy una persona tóxica?», «¿Cómo saber si esta persona vale mi tiempo?» o la más importante de todas, «¿Qué hay de malo conmigo?», ¡felicidades!, tienes el libro correcto en tus manos.

Aceptémoslo, las citas son difíciles y nadie lo entiende mejor que Jeff Guenther, el terapeuta experto en relaciones amorosas que cuenta con más de 20 años de experiencia y una comunidad de cuatro millones de seguidores en redes sociales. Ya sea que estés buscando pareja, explorando tus vínculos y tu sexualidad, o tratando de descubrir qué app vale la pena y cuáles ya pasaron de moda, Jeff sabe cómo guiarte.

Esta es una guía fresca y cercana para que sobrevivas al amor moderno, con la que aprenderás a comunicar tus necesidades afectivas sin dejar de serle fiel a lo que eres. ¿Cuántas veces no has escuchado el mito de que para amar a alguien primero debes amarte a ti mismo? Aquí romperás con esa idea, pues el amor propio es un largo camino y no tenemos que esperar a terminarlo para amar a otra persona y, mucho menos, para que alguien nos ame así como somos.

¡Prepárate no solo para tener éxito en las citas, sino también para pasarla bien en el proceso!

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Create Authentic Relationships Without Losing Yourself.

If you've ever asked yourself, "Why can't I find the kind of connection I long for?", "Am I a toxic person?", "How do I know if this person is worth my time?" or, most importantly, "What's wrong with me?", congratulations! You have the right book in your hands.

Let's face it, dating is hard, and no one understands it better than Jeff Guenther, the relationship therapist with over 20 years of experience and a community of four million followers on social media. Whether you're looking for a partner, exploring your connections and sexuality, or trying to figure out which dating app is worth your time and which ones are outdated, Jeff knows how to guide you.

This is a fresh and approachable guide to surviving modern love, teaching you how to communicate your emotional needs without compromising who you are. How many times have you heard the myth that to love someone, you must first love yourself? Here, you'll break free from that idea, as self-love is a long journey, and we don't have to wait to finish it to love someone else, much less to be loved just as we are.

Get ready not only to succeed in dating but also to enjoy the process!

El amor verdadero todo lo sana y todo lo puede.

Las relaciones de pareja, cuando sanas, nos hacen sentir que hemos encontrado un hogar, e incluso nos pueden ayudar a mejorar física y emocionalmente. Pero, cuando el amor mal entendido se torna tóxico, su propia fuerza nos puede enfermar. Este libro explica qué es el amor, tanto propio como entre pareja, cómo el demostrarlo o aprender a recibirlo depende de nuestra crianza y nos ayuda a descubrir cuando las relaciones se tornan perjudiciales para nuestro estado físico, mental y emocional.

A través de distintas teorías de expertos y testimonios reales, incluyendo el de la propia autora, quien hoy ha sanado a través del amor, y de una decena de ejercicios que te ayudarán a indagar en tus emociones, Carolina Novoa Arias será tu guía para identificar tu propia definición del amor y las limitaciones que pudieran interferir en tu búsqueda de vínculos afectivos sanos y responsables.

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True love heals everything and can do anything.

Healthy romantic relationships make us feel like we’ve found a home and can even help us improve physically and emotionally. However, when misunderstood love turns toxic, its very strength can make us ill. This book explains what love is, both self-love and love between partners, how showing or learning to receive it depends on our upbringing, and helps us discover when relationships become harmful to our physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Through various expert theories and real testimonies, including that of the author herself, who has healed through love, and a dozen exercises that will help you explore your emotions, Carolina Novoa Arias will be your guide to identifying your own definition of love and the limitations that might interfere with your search for healthy and responsible emotional bonds.

Falling in love is what everyone dreams of. Sustaining that love is the deal-breaker. 

People can’t sustain something they don’t fully understand, that they don’t know how to nurture, that they don’t know how to develop and grow.

The nine Enneagram types reveal that there are nine ways to love and receive love. Shown by both modern science and ancient wisdom, leaning into understanding oneself and others through the Enneagram leads to loving better and living more fully.

Enneagram expert and psychiatrist David Daniels, MD and certified Enneagram relationship teacher and coach Suzanne Dion present a relationship-changing guidebook packed with practical tips, specific guidance, and stories of working with couples on communication, anger, judgment, forgiveness, love, intimacy, and sexual fulfillment for all nine types.

This unique resource brings together the power of the Enneagram, relationship mindfulness, and a deep understanding of the nine Enneagram personality types to transform relationships from conflictual and struggling to harmonious and thriving.

Whether someone is seeking love and dating or is in an established relationship, The Enneagram, Relationships, and Intimacy will take them on a journey into themselves and others—a journey that will change their life.

Después de meses saliendo, ¿cómo saber si tu «casi algo» podría ser algo más? ¿Te encanta, pero hay red flags que quizá no estás viendo? ¿Mueres de ganas por enviar ese mensaje, pero no quieres verte intenso/a?

Toda la vida nos han dicho que el amor es una cuestión del destino, ¡pero es mentira! Okey, sí, las citas pueden ser difíciles y la química quizá no fluya tan rápido al inicio; sin embargo, hay asuntos que sí están en nuestras manos, por ejemplo, a quién elegimos para salir o la manera en que comunicamos lo que nos gusta y lo que no.

Con esta guía descubre las herramientas para escoger mejor a quién ligarte y a quién enviar directito a la banca. Spoiler alert: muy pocos casos en el amor tienen que ver con la suerte, la mayoría se debe a la habilidad para detectar lo que busca la otra persona y, más importante aún, lo que tú quieres encontrar.

Aquí nadie te juzgará si solo quieres pasarla bien mientras se pueda, tampoco te criticaremos si lo que deseas es mudarte con tu pareja o, de plano, cortar esa relación de la que ya te cansaste. Aquí estamos en confianza y te ayudaremos a ser sincero/a contigo mismo/a, a saber si estás buscando a alguien que realmente te guste o si tu ego quiere a alguien que te alabe, además de reconocer si te están aplicando el famoso lovebombing (demostraciones excesivas de atención y afecto), así como a dar el primer paso para encontrar el tipo de relación que quieres. 

Mientras tanto, ¡no le escribas a tu ex!

¿Qué significa que el único amor verdadero sea el amor imposible? ¿Es el amor lo que suponemos que es? O antes que eso, ¿es lo imposible aquello definido como lo inalcanzable, lo inconsumable, lo inenarrable? ¿Y si fueran las preguntas lo que hay que cambiar porque es en la imposibilidad del encuentro amoroso donde radica su verdad?
Este libro es una propuesta de deconstrucción radical sobre uno de los eventos más radicales de nuestra existencia. Ocho tesis que tienen el arrojo de devenir en una serie de desvelos, nuevas intuiciones, destellos que nos inviten a temblar. Es la puesta en página de una práctica política concreta, que increpa a ese amor comercial, romántico, que se nos vende como domi-nante, como único y normativo. Es ir a martillazos contra esa arquitectura sentimental sostenida por el sentido común, por definiciones y naturalezas forzadas. Y entonces, sí: categorías cristalizadas como la pareja, la familia, la media naranja y el primer amor, entre otras, son puestas en evidencia, caen bajo su propio peso: se rompen.
El amor es imposible conduce al insomnio, y de ahí a una revolución íntima y perturbadora comandada por el deseo genuino de la intranquilidad: no queremos estar en donde estamos. Un trabajo de años, de lecturas y de diálogos en el que Darío Sztajnszrajber pone una vez más, al alcance de quienes estén dispuestos a jugar el juego, las herramientas de la filosofía para desandar lo andado, rebelarse y exigir siempre, aunque suene a destiempo y desubicado, animarse a lo imposible.

Este no es un libro sobre lo que hay que hacer o lo que no hay que hacer en una relación de pareja. No habla de modelos ideales. Habla de relaciones diversas, con sus propias pautas y estilos de navegación. Pero también de aquellas cuestiones que habitualmente consiguen que las cosas funcionen o se estropeen en una pareja, y de los ingredientes que facilitan o dificultan construir una buena relación y mantenerla.

Este libro da pistas para que cada uno encuentre su fórmula, su modelo y su manera de vivir en pareja.

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10 years of Joan Garriga's classic, with more than 150,000 readers.

This is not a book about what to do or what not to do in a relationship. It does not talk about ideal models. It talks about diverse relationships, with their own patterns and navigation styles. But also about the issues that make or break a couple, and the ingredients that make it easier to build and maintain a good relationship.

This book gives each person clues to find their own formula, their own model and their own way of living as a couple.

¿Cómo piensan los hombres? ¿Qué sienten? ¿Qué les preocupa? ¿Cuáles son sus miedos, preocupaciones y conflictos?

En los últimos tiempos se ha hablado mucho sobre las relaciones tóxicas y cómo evitarlas, y estos mensajes nos han permitido salir de lugares que nos dañan para darnos cuenta de que el amor puede ser de otra manera. Sin embargo, una vez hecho todo ese camino para dejar atrás malos hábitos puede que nos enfrentemos al temido «¿y ahora qué?».

El libro que tienes en tus manos viene a solucionar esta pregunta. La psicóloga Paula Delgado, experta en responsabilidad afectiva y gestión emocional, nos brinda en estas páginas las herramientas necesarias para alinear nuestras relaciones con nuestros valores, comunicar nuestras necesidades de manera constructiva y marcar límites que nos permitan construir vínculos sanos. El objetivo es tratar de aportar claridad para aprender a gestionar nuestras relaciones desde el amor y el respeto, para aprender a amar bien y sentirnos bien queridos y escuchados.

El mejor juego de preguntas y respuestas para divertirse en pareja y descubrir cuánto se conocen realmente.

Este es el juego perfecto para que rían mientras recuerdan todo lo que han vivido, descubren cuánto se conocen en realidad y, quizás, se animen a hacer una que otra confesión.

Dividido en seis categorías, podrán avanzar por estas divertidas páginas y ponerse a prueba, además de desafiarse con diversos retos y recibir recompensas, como una cita sorpresa, una cena especial o un masaje que recorra su anatomía… y todo lo que se les ocurra.

¿Qué hace que el amor dure? ¿Existe una fórmula para construir un amor duradero? Los doctores John Gottman y Julie Schwartz Gottman, los terapeutas de pareja por antonomasia, nos enseñan a construir una relación duradera en solo 7 días. 

Los doctores Gottman llevan más de cincuenta años estudiando el amor y las relaciones de pareja con el objetivo de identificar los componentes básicos del amor.La receta para el amor convierte el trabajo de toda una vida en un plan de acción de siete días para conseguir una intimidad más profunda. A través de sus descubrimientos fundamentales, los Gottman nos guiarán en la construcción de un amor duradero con pasos fáciles y accesibles.

Las pequeñas acciones diarias nos ayudarán a mejorar nuestra relación. Este libro contiene soluciones eficaces para los problemas más comunes, desde la soledad y la desconexión emocional y física hasta el distanciamiento y la pérdida del sentimiento amoroso. 

No importa quién seas ni qué tipo de relación quieras fortalecer, La receta para el amor te proporcionará herramientas prácticas para potenciar cualquier vínculo de tu vida. Los Gottman demuestran que con pequeños cambios diarios en tan solo siete días se pueden fortalecer los cimientos de todas las relaciones, hacerlas florecer y crear grandes y duraderos cambios.

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What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? A simple yet powerful plan to transform your relationship in seven days. 

Drs. John Gottman and Julie Schwartz-Gottman are the world’s leading relationship scientists. For the past forty years, they have been studying love. They’ve gathered data on over three thousand couples, looking at everything from their body language to the way they converse to their stress hormone levels. 

La receta para el amor distills their work into a bite-size, sevenday action plan with easy, immediately actionable steps. There will be no grand gestures and no big, hard conversations. There’s nothing to buy or do to prepare.

Anyone can do this, from any starting point.

Walter Riso, experto en amor y relaciones, nos propone una nueva guía para saber si amamos a la persona adecuada.

¿Te ha pasado alguna vez que de tanto dar amor te has olvidado de tu persona, de tus sueños, tus ilusiones, tu vocación, tus valores y tus sentimientos más profundos, como si hubieras sufrido una metamorfosis? Este libro es para ti.

A lo largo de todos estos años como terapeuta, Walter Riso ha constatado con frecuencia que en nuestras relaciones de pareja nos acostumbramos a dar excesivamente y a recibir muy poco o nada de la persona que amamos, y lo normalizamos, como si fuera lo natural. Nos resignamos a una relación desequilibrada por la creencia de que el verdadero amor no espera nada a cambio, como si la ecuación amorosa solo tuviera un miembro.

Para Walter Riso, esto no debe ser así. Un amor saludable fluye, va y viene, uno siente y ve el afecto del otro y viceversa.

Este libro te llevará por varios caminos para que revises tu estilo afectivo, trates de equilibrar tu relación y analices si estás en el lugar equivocado. Es posible que tu visión del amor se vea cuestionada y quizás deje de ser la misma. En cualquier caso, aprenderás que el amor saludable y funcional requiere de un principio imprescindible: necesito quererme para quererte.

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Throughout all these years as a therapist, Walter Riso has often seen that in our relationships we get used to giving in excess and receiving very little or nothing from the person we love. And we see it as normal, as if it were the natural way. We settle ourselves for an unbalanced relationship because of the belief that true love expects nothing in return, as if the love equation only had one member. This book will take you through several paths so that you review your affective style, try to balance your relationship and see if you are in the wrong place. Probably your view of love will be challenged as you learn that healthy and functional love requires an essential principle: I need to love myself to love you.

Readers of Walter Riso who are looking to heal and work on their personal growth, fans of motivational and inspirational books that hold clinical arguments. Has it ever happened to you that from giving so much love you have forgotten your own self, your dreams, your illusions, your values and your deepest feelings as if you had undergone a metamorphosis? This book is for you.

Ama y no sufras lleva más allá lo que el autor expuso en ¿Amar o depender? No sólo se trata de amar sin apegos, que es un logro importante, sino de acabar con todo tipo de sufrimiento inútil relacionado con el amor. Sentir amor es más fácil que explicarlo, porque nadie nos ha educado para amar y ser amados, al menos de manera explícita. Habrá quienes digan que el amor no es para entenderlo, sino para sentirlo y disfrutarlo, y que el romanticismo no soporta ningún tipo de lógica: nada más erróneo.

Vívelo y disfruta de tu relación.

Even those who presume to be perfectly attached to their partner, in the deepest recesses of their being, harbor doubts and insecurities. Who hasn't suffered from being with the wrong person, because the flame goes out, or simply because of the caress that never came?

Ama y no sufras (Love and Don't Suffer) takes further what the author said in ¿Amar o depender? (Love or Depend?) It is not only about loving without attachments, which is a major achievement, but about ending all kinds of useless suffering related to love. Feeling love is easier than explaining it, because no one has educated us to love and be loved, at least not explicitly. There will be those who say that love is not to be understood, but to be felt and enjoyed, and that romanticism does not support any kind of logic: nothing could be more wrong.

 ¿Es posible amar a más de una persona a la vez? 

¿Puede la infidelidad ayudar a una pareja? 

En una cultura donde se ha sobrevalorado la entrega amorosa ilimitada, la vida en pareja se ha convertido en la principal forma de autorrealización. Un sentimentalismo exagerado ha hecho que se ignore el sacrificio personal que implica tal abnegación. Sin embargo, el amor no lo justifica todo.

A 2019 Nautilus Silver Book Award Winner

You can't fix what you don't see. But with awareness and the right tools, real change can and does happen.

No matter how hard we try, many of us struggle to make love work with our partners. The problem, as clinical psychologist Dr. Ron Frederick explains, is that our brains are running on outdated software. Without us knowing it, our early relationship programming causes us to fear being more emotionally present and authentic with our partners—precisely what’s needed to build loving connections. But we don’t have to remain prisoners to our past.

Grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience and attachment theory, Loving Like You Mean It shares a proven four-step approach to use emotional mindfulness to break free from old habits, befriend your emotional experience, and develop new ways of relating. The capacity for deep, loving connections is inside all of us, waiting to come out. By practicing the science behind loving like you mean it, your relationships can be fuller and richer than you ever imagined.

Since around 1750, we have been living in the era of Romanticism, which has shaped the way we approach love, marriage, and sex. When it comes to love, this book argues, Romanticism has been a disaster. Full of real-life examples, lively humor, and cultural anecdotes, Relationships teaches us: 

• That love and sex may not always go together (and that’s OK)
• That discussing money early on, in a serious way, is not a betrayal of love That acknowledging respective flaws can be a couple’s superpower
• That we will never find everything we need in another person
• That spending two hours discussing whether bathroom towels should be hung up or can be left on the floor has its own dignity

With wisdom, wit, and compassion, this innovative guide paves the way to a new, brighter future for love. Part of a new essential paperback series from The School of Life, covering a range of emotional lessons needed in order to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

• DOWN WITH ROMANTICISM! this book teaches you how to find love, and keep it—without rosy-colored glasses. 
• LEARN THE SKILL OF LOVE—AND LIVING WITH YOUR PARTNER’S FLAWS a refreshing, skills-based take on how to approach relationships, and be realistic about long term partnership. 
• PRACTICAL RELATIONSHIP ADVICE like why to talk about money early on, and how to find dignity in the dreary domestic details of life.
• CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE IMAGES throughout.
• PART OF THE NEW PAPERBACK SERIES 'LESSONS FOR LIFE'

Told as a series of reflections on her personal experiences, this is a bold manifesto by a brilliant young mind on our contemporary understanding of romantic love and how the contradictions of inherited traditions and technology affect the way we build relationships.

Born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish community in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tamara Tenenbaum approached the sexual and affective habits of the secular world like an anthropologist discovering the ways of life of an unknown civilization.

Drawing from philosophy and feminist militancy, from conversations with friends and colleagues, and from an attempt to turn her own body and experience into a laboratory for both individual and collective reflection, Tenenbaum explores the challenges that young people today face at the start of their adult lives.

Tenenbaum examines the multiple dimensions of affection, from the value of friendship to the culture of consent, passing through motherhood as a choice or an imperative, desired and abhorred singlehood, polyamory, open relationships, and the workings of dating apps. Timely and illuminating, The End of Love celebrates the creative destruction of romantic relationships as we know them, and advocates for the rise of a better, freer love.

Have You Found “the One”? 

The decision to get engaged is one of the most exciting and important decisions you will ever make. 51 Things You Should Know Before Getting Engaged offers the insights and techniques necessary for a successful engagement and marriage. Psychotherapist Michael Batshaw gives you the tools to decide whether your partner is the right one for you, and if so, how to keep it that way. 

Some of his advice: 

• Beware the person of your dreams. 
• Couples who do everything together do not have a relationship that can survive. 
• Couples who do not argue are in trouble. 
• Hollywood gets it wrong. 
• The truth of the moment is not the whole truth.

• Find the hot spots where single dog lovers congregate
• Break the ice with conversation starters that are perfect for dog lovers
• Train your dog to fetch a date
• Write a canine-friendly personal ad
• Ensure that your dog and your new love get along
• Spot dog owners who should be avoided
• Use your dog to prolong a date—or end it

Featuring a host of true-life love stories and fun, revealing self-quizzes, The Dog Lover's Guide to Dating will help you find your perfect match!

Love starts within you and flows out into the world, not the other way around. This book helps you remove blocks to allow true love into your life. You will attract the right life partner and improve your relationships through a simple three-step plan that uses self-hypnosis to get your mind in the right place for love. First, you'll learn to let go of disempowering beliefs in your subconscious mind. In step two, you'll overcome emotional and behavioral barriers and allow space for true romance. Finally, you'll discover how to integrate your new vision of yourself into your life to attract a happy relationship.

• Shows how to use self-hypnosis to get yourself and your life ready for love
• Offers an easy-to-follow action plan to clear out old baggage, boost self-confidence, and allow space for romance
• Includes exercises to help you uncover and let go of disempowering beliefs and insecurities

Written by a certified clinical hypnotherapist and dating expert who has been interviewed by Match.com, MSN, Lavalife, ABC News, Playboy Radio, and ExpertVillage.com Let Love In will create permanent positive changes to your self-confidence that will not only attract Mr. Right but will affect virtually every area of your life as well.

Women want men to change, but men want women to stay the same. If you've ever wondered how much ""potential"" a guy has, this book will help you discover whether he's a diamond in the rough or just a lump of coal. You'll learn why women endure the frustration of trying to transform a sub-par boyfriend into the man of their dreams and why men can be disappointed when women change as they turn into wives and mothers. With the information and tactics in this book, you'll find out how to overcome that disconnect and learn to assess whether a man really does have the potential to change or whether it's time to move on in order to find that truly special someone you deserve.

• Tells you what you need to know to determine whether a man is worth all of the time and effort
• Shows how to tell if a man is a Cheapskate, Know-It-All, Liar, Couch Potato, ADD Guy, Wannabe Artist, or all of the above
• Explains the biological and social reasons that women assess men for the potential they might have in the future while men assess women as they are now
• Written by Dr. Belisa Vranich, a clinical psychologist and advice columnist for the the Huffington Post, and Ariane Marder, former sex and relationships editor at Men?s Fitness and, currently, the executive editor at Voyage.tv

Filled with surprising, down-to-earth information your mother and your friends could never tell you, He's Got Potential is the relationship survival guide every woman should read.

Creative Ways to Say I Love You Every Day

"You never know when someone around you needs a boost." ―Denise & Brendon Burchard, The Burchard Group/HPX Life

Winner 2021 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in Relationships
#1 New Release in Family, Quotations, and Reference

Sometimes it’s difficult to find the right way to say “I love you” to the people you appreciate the most in life. The emotions are there, but the words don’t come. Say It Now shows you how to put your feelings into words―and actions, too. From activities that take just a minute, to love letters, joy jars, tribute videos, surprise parties, and more, this book helps you celebrate the most important people in your life.

Appreciate the time you have together. We never know how much time we have left with our loved ones. If there’s someone you care about deeply―a parent, grandparent, child, friend, colleague, teacher, or neighbor―don’t wait to express how you feel. Say It Now offers inspiring stories and ways to write those first love notes and share romantic gifts that you’ll treasure for years.

Ideas for every love language. Whether it’s words of affection, thoughtful actions, handmade love gifts, or just your time and attention, Say It Now has ways for you to express your love in your own way. Start with the thirty-three ideas in this book and make them your own.

If you are a daughter looking for the right way to say “what I love about Dad,” or a husband looking for creative anniversary gifts, Say It Now has the inspiration you need:

• Get inspired to say “I love you” to the important people in your life
• Make someone’s day
• Build a stronger bond with friends

Say It Now: 33 Ways to Say I LOVE YOU to the Most Important People In Your Life is an activity book to spark creativity, perfect for anyone who enjoys books like What I Love About You: Fill In the Love Journal, The Big Activity Book for Couples, or I Love You: The Activity Book Meant To Be Shared.

Constantly wondering and not knowing feels terrible. Should I Leave My Relationship or Not? provides women with the needed tools to figure out what exactly is the right move for them, and not just a pro/con list (which is a terrible way to decide). Life coach Karen Lin shares her blueprint for a simple and kind path forward. In Should I Leave My Relationship or Not?, women learn how to:

Unhitched tracks Sunny Joy McMillan’s own journey, from once living a seemingly perfect life on paper but really hiding an unhappy and high-conflict marriage, all the way to a loving, post-divorce friendship with her ex-husband. Demonstrated through both her own story and case studies from her clients, Sunny’s guide outlines a clear process for answering the question of whether to stay or go, shows women how to get divorced gracefully should they decide to leave, and tells women how to create a better, new life.

Unhitched provides women with the clarity to make the right decisions for their marriage, courage to take the right action, and confidence that their life can be better on the other side. Although this guide is practical and includes many tangible exercises and tools, it is unlike similarly-themed guides in that it takes a less sterile and more heart-centered, spiritually-based approach to making tough decisions and taking tough action in a marriage.

When MRIs, CT scans, and Western medical approaches did not provide satisfactory long-term answers or solutions, she looked to holistic mind-body-spirit approaches. The exploration of these various paths led to her deep appreciation and fascination of the subtle energies that influence our daily lives. In order to attract and revel in the romantic relationship of their dreams, single women need to let go of the past and clear out negative belief patterns so they can reclaim their magnetic and radiant true self. The MAGNETIC Process Suki presents is eight simple steps to realizing Happily Ever After.

Coach Paula Grooms' entertaining book provides an enlightening and easy way to relate to how men view women, experience them, commit and make their life-long bonds.

Why Won't He Commit? will entertain, guide and allow you to:

So why isn’t this enough? She married for safety and security. She married the good guy who wouldn’t hurt her. She plays the role of super-mom, because she can and because she can’t seem to say no to anyone, but her husband. But after long days of caring for everyone else, connecting with her husband in any meaningful way feels like a chore, like he’s one more person that needs something from her. She has love for her husband, the father of her children, but she fears she’s fallen out of love with him.

She chose this path, this marriage, this life – so why does she feel so empty and alone? If this isn’t enough, will it ever be enough? What would it take to feel happy? Is that even possible? What kind of miracle is needed for this – all of this – to feel good?

Why Isn’t This Marriage Enough guides women to find the answers to that important question and explores whether the marriage can be transformed into a relationship that feels like more than enough.

How things might be different if your wife thought of you as a ROCK STAR husband?

Whether you’ve been married for 3 years or 30, the formula for making magic happen in your relationship is the same. Author James T. Horning knows what a woman wants and how filling her needs on her terms fuels her passion, desire and attraction for her man. His uncommon and often disruptive insights into the dynamics between the sexes are unabashedly poignant and profoundly on target.

"Winning At The Game of Wife" reveals the secret sauce for transforming what you have into an rewarding, adventurous, and passionate experience. If that doesn’t sound like your marriage, you just aren’t doing it right.

What does a woman want anyway? How do I bring sex back into our marriage? Where did the passion go and how do I get it back? How can I take infidelity and divorce off the table?

If you’ve ever asked any of these questions, "Winning At The Game of Wife" will initiate you into an exclusive club of men who know what a woman wants and how giving that to her will make her want and adore you like never before.

CoupleCEO: From the Bedroom to the Boardroom and Back explores the unique world of the CoupleCEO, the entrepreneurial couple trying to find their balance between a profitable business and a passionate and fulfilled lifestyle. Written by a real life CoupleCEO, it builds a framework that any couple can easily follow and incorporate into their lives. CoupleCEO: From the Bedroom to the Boardroom and Back inspires and educates in ways to live a successful life, where the business and the relationship can coexist and thrive.

is a guide to dealing with infidelity. It gives easy-to-follow steps for the individual who is trying to decide whether or not to stay in a relationship. For the couple desiring to restore their relationship, it provides thought-provoking questions to help them understand why the affair happened, as well as exercises to guide the couple journey through each stage of dealing with the infidelity

Develop the Intimate Relationship You Desire

"This book is AMAZING and so helpful to me in my relationship. It's showing me the way to transformation and a new way of being with my partner. Love it!" —Amazon review

M. J. Ryan reveals gratitude practices that create intimate relationships. Create the romantic relationship you desire by practicing gratitude!

Gratitude starves relationship anxiety! With this gratitude book learn how to have a happier relationship with your partner. Get the answers to some of your most pressing relationship questions and use this as a guide to your own personal growth.

Relationship goals made easy with gratitude. Enhance couple goals by making gratitude a constant part of your relationship. Take your time in creating relational happiness, and restoring your relationship without couples counseling. 

Inside, you’ll find:

• Gratitude practices to spark an intimate relationship
• A gratitude book centered on becoming your own relationship goals
• Practices to stabilize self-growth and starve relationship anxiety

If you liked The Four Laws of Love, Meditations on Self-Love, or The Naked Marriage, you’ll love Attitudes of Gratitude in Love.

Gift For Mothers to Reflect On, Celebrate, and Draw Inspiration From

"A feast for the eyes and the heart. You will love paging through this book with your mother."―Becca Anderson, author of The Woman's Book of Prayer

Mother Is a Verb is more than just a gift for mothers. It’s a guide, friend, and confidante for mothers all over the world to celebrate and rejoice in their motherhood and in themselves.

The perfect gift book. Whether a working mother, stay-at-home mom, new mom, or expectant mother, Mother Is a Verb is the perfect gift book for any mother in your life. Michelle Pearson crafts a thoughtful gift for Mother’s Day that mothers can meditate on daily.

Astounding artwork. This gift book contains flower illustrations that embody the love, protection, and growth that mothers provide. Drawn with care, each flower illustration reflects the wisdom that Mother Is a Verb―a thoughtful gift to mothers everywhere.

Inspirational quotes on every page. Mother Is a Verb contains inspirational mom quotes that mothers look toward to remind them to take time to celebrate themselves. These light-hearted insights impart an important reminder that even as mothers, self-care and honoring oneself is vital in the journey of motherhood.

Gift this book to the mother in your life:

• Inspirational mom quotes, musings, affirmations, and beyond
• Calming flower illustrations for the soul 
• A lasting book for mom that she can cherish

If you liked A Heart So Full, More Than a Mom, Remaining You While Raising Them, or Deep Breaths for New Moms, then you’ll love Mina Parker’s Mother Is a Verb.