Available January 2006 Genuine spirituality is rooted in our ability to be fully human, and nowhere is this more fully seen in our relationships with others. Focusing on marriage relationships, here priest/psychologist Padovani offers couples solid and practical advice gleaned from his thirty plus years as a counselor.

The Price For Healing Relationships is the debut literary work of Christian Lokoja. The essence of this book is to evoke mental, emotional and spiritual awareness within the individual committed to healthy collective interaction in love relationships. This book is designed for couple interaction, yet, written for all to experience and enjoy. The Price For Healing Relationships suggests that the reliable application of valid instruction concerning love, family and relationships can offer greater opportunity to enhance lifestyle, marriage, family and community commitment. Using biblical study, life and love experiences to support insights and poetic expressions, Christian Lokoja provides a unique platform of perspective and discernment that speaks clarity and direction to the reader. He has successfully communicated his journey of joys and pains as a call for men and women to embrace individual accountability, forgiveness, selflessness, compassion, intellectual honesty and passion, for the sake of true oneness. Christian Lokoja challenges minds to unlearn all precepts and examples taught, of personal, social and spiritual untruths. Christian Lokoja's honesty, as he shares, takes the reader on a fascinating ride of unique perspectives and emotions. It is his hope that this work will promote oneness in relationships and motivate social consciousness toward dispelling the myths of marriage. This makes this book truly a must read!

A Healing Relationship is about a relationally focused psychotherapy, how the author works, and why. The first couple of chapters provide a brief orientation to relationally focused aspects of an integrative psychotherapy. The heart of the book are the transaction-by-transaction examples of what actually occurred in the psychotherapeutic dialogue. It is composed of three verbatim transcripts along with annotations about what the author was thinking and feeling when he engaged in psychotherapy with each client. Many of the annotated comments as well as the actual therapeutic dialogue will describe some elements of the process of relationally focused psychotherapy and the reasoning behind his therapeutic comments, silences, and challenge. This book is intended to elicit a dialogue between the reader and the psychotherapist / author and is written as though a personal letter. Psychotherapy is such an interpersonal encounter - an intimate meeting of two souls. No two psychotherapists will ever do the same therapy, even with the same client, even if they use the same theory and methods. It is important to appreciate how each think about theories, the concepts that underlie the methods chosen, how each assess the therapeutic setting, and express personal temperament. Richard G. Erskine has taken an important step in communication about the practice of psychotherapy. Not only with this excellent book but also with video footage of the three therapy sessions, which will be made accessible to purchasers of the book. The overarching aim is to stimulate important conversations between colleagues; to both agree and disagree, to influence each other, to grow professionally, and to share knowledge.

A nationally known couples therapist reveals the single root cause of all relationship problems—and offers revolutionary advice on what to do about it While most of us have moments of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to sustain this where it matters most—in our intimate relationships. If love is so great and powerful, why are human relationships so challenging and difficult? If love is the source of happiness and joy, why is it so hard to open to it fully and let it govern our lives? In this book, John Welwood addresses these questions and shows us how to overcome the most fundamental obstacle that keeps us from experiencing love's full flowering in our lives. Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships begins by showing how all our relational problems arise out of a universal ‘wound of the heart’ that affects not only our personal relationships but the quality of life in our world as a whole. This core wound shows up as a pervasive mood of unlove—a deep sense that we are not intrinsically lovable just as we are. It shuts down our capacity to trust, so that even though we may hunger for love, we have difficulty opening to it and letting it circulate freely through us. This book takes the reader on a powerful journey of healing and transformation that involves learning to embrace these imperfections—within ourselves and within our relationships—as trail-markers along the path to great love. It sets forth a process for releasing deep-seated grievances we hold against others for not loving us better and against ourselves for not being better loved. And it shows how our longing to be loved can magnetize the great love that will free us from looking to others to find ourselves. Written with penetrating realism and a fresh, lyrical style that honors the subtlety and richness of our relationship to love itself, this revolutionary book offers profound and practical guidance for healing our lives as well as our embattled world.

It's no surprise that our culture is addicted to "love." The sappy love songs, the enticing ads for romantic getaways and the desire to be cherished by a special someone will never lose their appeal. But for some women, this poses a significant problem. Because of their insatiable desire for love, they will do anything to find it and ultimately land in destructive addictive relationships over and over again causing incredible harm. This newly revised and expanded edition of Ready to Heal provides an opportunity for women to break free from painful addictive relationships. Kelly McDaniel provides the reader with the tools they will need to move along the path to living a life where intimacy is possible. Readers have an opportunity to begin to "connect the dots" in their own relationship patterns by following the stories of four brave women. A newly added chapter on "Mother Hunger" explores the role of the mother in infancy and how she ultimately impacts a daughter's ability to have healthy intimate relationships later in life. Break free from the chains of addictive relationships that sabotage happiness and self-respect.

Every family is hurting, and the wounds that come from our relatives can be deeper than all others. Conflict within a family can range from daily frictions and annoyances to rage and hatred and eventually estrangement. We want things to be different but have no idea where to start. After 25 years of ministering to families, Rob Rienow believes reconciliation is at the heart of the gospel--reconciliation with God and one another. You will come away with specific steps you can take in your relationships with your family members to pursue peace and healing in your homes. Each chapter includes key biblical examples as well as present-day stories of families who have experienced God's help and healing--including the author's own miraculous healing of his relationship with his father. Our families can bring out the best, as well as the worst, in all of us. May this book guide you in making your home and family a blessing in a broken world.

Are intimate relations between clergy and those they serve, or between mental health professionals and their patients, ethical? Do such relations represent an abuse of power? This book squarely addresses these questions--and contains surprising answers. While uniformly supporting victims and abhoring abuse, these contriubtors reveal profound differences in interpreting the need for boundries in healing relationships.

Transform Your Relationships by Healing the Wounds, Blockages, and Attachments That Drive Family Members Apart In this brilliant book, Keith Sherwood and Sabine Wittmann show you how to improve your relationships and achieve powerful healing at the deepest levels of consciousness. Energy Healing for Relationships helps you find a compatible partner (or strengthen your connection to your existing partner), heal family dynamics, and overcome parenting challenges. Tips and techniques for working with meditation, energy, positive thinking, chakras, mudras, and visualization will move you forward on your journey with your family and friends while also helping you ensure that the children in your life grow up with all the love and self-confidence they need. Within these pages, you will discover more than one hundred accessible exercises for building skills like centering your awareness in your non-physical field and increasing your empathy for yourself and your loved ones. You will also explore powerful approaches to recognizing and releasing attachments that can interfere with communication while improving your soul vibration and sense of internal balance. This book is a comprehensive guide to getting the most out of your relationships for a life filled with emotional nourishment and spiritual well-being.

Have you noticed how easily strife causes your relationships to fall apart? Are you looking for a solution? In Healing Contentious Relationships, Thomas Parr exposes the way pride, covetousness, and unbelief cause us to mistreat others and how God grants grace in Christ to resolve such tension. Here is a book for war-weary souls in need of the Spirit of peace. Table of Contents: The Cause and Pattern of Strife Confronted as Sinners God’s Grace—The Main Solution to Sin and Strife Coming to God in Humble Repentance Affliction and Humble Sorrow Another Expression of Pride—Subtly Judging God Another Expression of Pride—A Self-Sufficient Spirit

For those who have lost a loved one, this journal has places for letters, phone calls, memories, and communications concerning the person who has died. The authors--a famous psychic and a registered nurse--invite readers to fill the journal pages with what they need to say, share, and remember. Consumable.