Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-CommittmentHere is a powerful new program that can clear away the unconscious agreements patterns that undermine even your best intentions. Through their own marriage and through twenty years' experience counseling more than one thousand couples, therapists Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks have developed precise strategies to help you create a vital partnership and enhance the energy, creativity, and happiness of each individual. You will learn how to: Let go of power struggles and need for control; Balance needs for closeness and separateness; Increase intimacy by telling the "microscopic truth"; Communicate in a positive way that stops arguments; Make agreements you can keep; Allow more pleasure into your life. Addressed to individuals as well as to couples, Conscious Loving will heal old hurts and deepen your capacity for enjoyment, security, and enduing love. |
Contents
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Two THE MOMENT WHEN UNCONSCIOUS | 41 |
THREE THE NINE TRAPS OF UNCONSCIOUS | 60 |
FOUR THE SEVEN STEPS TO COCOMMITMENT | 80 |
A COCOMMITTED RELATIONSHIP | 124 |
SIX A NEW METHOD OF RESOLVING CONFLICT150 | 150 |
SEVEN COCOMMITTED STRATEGIES FOR COMMUNI | 165 |
EIGHT HOW TO KEEP THE PAST FROM INTRUDING | 183 |
NINE WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU FEEL STUCK | 202 |
CONCLUSION ENVISIONING A NEW WORLD | 213 |
ACTIVITIES FOR TRANSFORMING | 219 |
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Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Committment Gay Hendricks,Kathlyn Hendricks Limited preview - 1992 |
Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Committment Gay Hendricks,Kathlyn Hendricks No preview available - 1992 |
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