When Harville Hendrix writes about relationships, he discusses them not just as an educator and a therapist, but as a man who has himself been through a failed marriage. Hendrix felt the sting of his divorce intensely because he believed it signaled not only his failure as a husband but also his failure as a couples counselor. Investigating why his marriage dissolved led him to start looking into the psychology of love. Marriage, he ultimately discovered, is the "practice of becoming passionate friends."
As a result of his research, Hendrix created a therapy he calls Imago Relationship Therapy. In it, he combines what he’s learned in a number of disciplines, including the behavioral sciences, depth psychology, cognitive therapy, and Gestalt therapy, to name just a few. He expounds upon this approach in Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. His purpose in writing the book, he says, is "to share with you what I have learned about the psychology of love relationships, and to help you transform your relationship into a lasting source of love and companionship."
In 1988, Harville Hendrix in partnership with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, published a terrifically successful relationship guide, Getting the Love You Want. The book introduced thousands to their Imago Relationship Therapy, a unique healing process for couples, prospective couples, and parents. Doctors Hendrix and Hunt managed to aid scores of couples in their pursuit of more loving, supportive, and deeply satisfying relationships.
The Getting the Love You Want Audio Companion, is designed for couples seeking a practical route back to intimacy and passionate friendship. This companion contains a unique twelve-week course which includes complete step-by-step instructions for transforming relationships into a lasting source of love and companionship.
For those of us struggling to maintain our most precious relationships, the Getting the Love You Want Audio Companion helps us grow aware of our individual, unconscious agenda while steering us towards a more harmonious link with our loved ones that will satisfy our deepest needs.
Getting the Love You Want Audio Companion
After his groundbreaking book Getting the Love You Want, Hendrix has developed a brilliant, thought-provoking, and innovative self-help program for single people who yearn for the pleasures and rewards of a loving, long-lasting union. As seen on Oprah, here is the New York Times bestseller for singles looking to find and keep the love of their lives.
World Class Marriage presents with clear language and personal examples a practical structure for building or rebuilding closeness and caring in an intimate relationship. Based on decades of research on how growth is fostered and how relationships are enhanced or damaged, combined with the authors’ extensive experience teaching person-centered communication skills in 14 countries, as well as insights from their own highly successful marriage, World Class Marriage offers couples the love-building tools they are searching for. Having problems? This book will help! Doing OK? This book will take your marriage to a new level! Do your marriage a favor and buy it today!
When you analyze any disagreement what you find is that the topic is always the same. The issues that get a couple going are endless: from not picking up socks, to the frequency of sex. However, as the disagreement progresses, the topic invariably shifts to who’s right and who’s wrong. What is interesting about these "Right Fights" is that they are not about needing to be right, but come from the feeling of being wronged. Once wronged, we withdraw emotionally until the other person makes it right. This disconnect comes out as defensiveness, and shifts the conversation from what’s wrong (our pain) to who’s wrong (the person who hurt us). The solution is to address the feeling of hurt while being connected.
You Can Be Right or You Can Be Married
Let’s Connect!™ is an exciting, engaging new game designed to make relating and dating fun and easy. Whether people are - shy • anxious talkers • relaxed
Let’s Connect! allows people to focus on the game, not their performance. This upbeat icebreaker card deck expands conversation topics, is laugh-provoking and thought-provoking.
Let’s Connect! is designed to help men and women really talk to each other! Eighty questions and mini-games are divided into four suits based on level of risk. Order you copy today and begin to play.
Food for Talk is a recipe box filled with 200 cards designed to initiate and stimulate the dinner hour, helping parents and children connect on a deeper level by sharing feelings, values and experiences.
Each night, someone in the family picks one card and reads it aloud. Give everyone ample time to think and then go around the table one-by-one, letting the children answer first (helps them not just mimic mom and dad’s response).
Set some important boundaries and manners, such as listen politely and no interruptions, criticisms or distractions. Parents and children will start learning about each other’s thoughts feelings and values, resulting in a deeper sense of trust, respect and mutual friendship.
Many couples want to get out on a date but they just don’t what else to do other than a dinner and a movie. Now you don’t need to think of new ideas each week. The date night deck has 52 date night ideas. These cards provide suggestions of what to do, and also gives information about how to bring loving/attention to you or your spouse.
The deck is divided into three groups, Visual date, Talking date, and Physical date, because no everyone has the same needs. This date deck will help you understand exactly how to spend quality time. Each deck has a quick test to help you and your partner find out exactly what each of you needs to feel loved. Then taking this information you can find a date night exactly tailored for you both.
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We have discovered that a very powerful predictor of marital stability is whether couples, particularly husbands, allocate "Cognitive Room" for their relationship and for the world of their partner.
Using this information, Dr. Gottman constructed the Love Map Exercise. This fun exercise helps couples develop a "Love Map" of their partner’s world - their history, concerns, preferences and current issues.
This exercise is used at the Institute’s couples workshop: The Art and Science of Love. Includes "Love Map" and "Opportunity" cards and Love Map instruction sheet.
NEW!! Salsa Card Deck: For Sex, Romance and Passion
Looking for a way to spice up your romantic love life? A wonderful way to ‘turn towards’ one another is sexually. Ironically, it’s the one area many of us struggle with talking about openly. We need to learn ways to court one another, to know each other’s love needs and to talk about sex.
These cards are designed to help you: Continue Your Courtship; Develop Rituals or Comfortable Ways to Talk About Sex; and Make Sex a Priority in Your Relationship. These beautifully color coded cards are divided into three sections, ‘Mild’, ‘Medium’, and ‘Hot’. "Mild’ card deck - For couples who would prefer romantic, but non-sexual suggestions. ‘Medium’ card deck - For couples who are comfortable with sexual intimacy. ‘Hot’ card deck - For couples who want to explore more wild sexual fantasies.
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