Award Winner: 2018 Best Book Awards Self-Help: Relationships
Learn to welcome--not fear--conflict to improve and deepen your relationships
Endorsed by Marshall Goldsmith, Eric Utne, and more, and you'll see why!
Author Janet Rowles begins her work with a surprising yet profound perspective on interpersonal conflict: "Conflict is an essential and unavoidable part of experiencing life to its fullest." With this sentiment, she has created an indispensable guide to navigating conflict in a new way, one that does not urge readers to suppress or minimize their emotions--or the emotions of others in conflict with them-- even when those emotions are perceived to be negative or messy.
Rowles taps into her own experiences of both conflict mediator (professionally) and instigator (personally) to take an empathetic approach toward helping others self-manage--and even welcome-- their own conflicts. She encourages the reader to lean into conflict by saying three simple words: "Tell me more." Throughout every chapter, Rowles' belief that embracing conflict rather than stifling it is essential for fulfilling the fundamental desires for deeper and more meaningful relationships.
Throughout the book, Rowles utilizes a rich assortment of tools, tips, quotes, examples, and outside resources to aid the reader. Many of the pages contain pertinent quotations in the sidebar, drawing on the wisdom of great thinkers to speak to the conflict we all experience in life. Exercise boxes invite the reader into personal reflection throughout the chapters in addition to the journal entry spaces that appear at the end of each chapter. This helpful dual-reflection format gets readers to engage in analysis while reading as well as after they've finished the chapter, giving them more time for absorption of the content. Together, these complementary parts create an invaluable resource for readers of all backgrounds.
The author also injects her own personality into the work, using case studies from her professional and personal life. This gives the book a deeper level of authenticity and relatability. The integration of Rowles' personal voice alongside research and insights from the field makes for the perfect marriage of logos and pathos. By the end of the book, "I truly felt as if I had reached a new understanding of conflict engagement in a healthy way, while also feeling as if I'd had the author as my personal guide and companion through this journey. Readers are sure to feel the same."
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Self-Help: Relationships
Would you like to enhance your communication skills to grow and strengthen all your relationships? If so, this book is for you...
4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work--Anywhere! is an excellent 'How-To Guide' for practicing the key skills that will help you identify and overcome communication barriers and achieve relationship success with the important people in your life--your spouse or partner, child or children, parents, siblings, friends, co-workers, customers--everyone! Plus, there are Self-Review Questions and Action Items at the end of several of the chapters.
In this book you will learn:
Empathic awareness and empathic listening skills
Listening blocks to effective communication
Empathic dialogue skills to achieve mutual understanding
Effective conflict management and problem-solving when there's a disagreement
How to nurture your relationships on a consistent basis
The power of expressing gratitude and appreciation
And more...
You will also get the 12-Day Communication Challenge! This Action Guide at the end of the book will help you practice a particular skill step each day thus growing in confidence and ability as you do.
The book is excellent to read and discuss as a couple, or in a book club or small group.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Self-Help: Relationships
What if making one tweak to your day-to-day conversations could immediately improve every relationship in your life?
In this 3-hour, conversational read, you’ll discover the whats, whys, and hows of one of the most valuable (yet surprisingly little-known) communication skills—validation.
Whether you’re looking to improve your relationship with your spouse, navigate difficult conversations at work, or connect on a deeper level with friends and family, this book delivers simple, practical, proven techniques for improving any relationship in your life.
Mastery of this simple skill will enable you to:
Calm (and sometimes even eliminate) the concerns, fears, and uncertainties of others
Increase feelings of love, respect, and appreciation in your romantic relationships
Quickly resolve, or even prevent, arguments
Help others become open to your point of view
Give advice and feedback that sticks
Provide support and encouragement to others, even when you don’t know how to “fix” the problem
And much more
In short: this skill is powerful. Give the principles and practices in this book a chance and you’ll be amazed at the difference they can make.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Self-Help: Relationships
This book reveals hundreds of practical relationship tips you can use to save, enhance and sustain your marriage. Focusing on what makes successful marriages work, this book reveals the essence of four decades of interviews with happily married couples throughout the world. The findings demonstrate that no love survives without doing the simple things. The stories and advice included show couples how to do the simple things necessary for a happy marriage.
Written by a popular and very active couple known as "America s #1 Love and Marriage Experts," Dr. Charles and Dr. Elizabeth Schmitz help audiences around the world answer questions about love, marriage and relationships. They are frequent guests on radio and television, and in the print media. Their upbeat, positive approach to living happily ever after has been well received by their vast worldwide readership. With more than 37 years of research on successful marriage throughout the world and their own 52-year marriage, Dr. Charles and Dr. Elizabeth Schmitz know what makes marriage work.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Self-Help: Relationships
Don’t change yourself. Change how you shop. Learn how to date a really great guy without changing who you are, playing games or sacrificing yourself. Finally! Self-discovery through shopping! Get ready for a fun book filled with wisdom teachings, healing, visualizations and fabulous shopping tips that will help you date a fabulous guy who's the right fit for you! That's what you want! This empowering dating guide celebrates you. It’s full of fun, wisdom and soul for women of all ages. Shopping For A Man reveals secret dating tips to help you bust the illusions about dating, find deeper personal fulfillment and create a lasting, meaningful relationship without playing games or sacrificing yourself. These fun and powerful shopping techniques and visualizations will help you • get rid of outmoded ideas and beliefs to make room for your shopping success • keep your focus clear amidst the bargains and knock-off’s • learn the powerful clues and signs so you know the difference between fabulous and flawed • find your perfect fit, Dating Is Shopping! The Power is in Your Hands. If you love men and you love shopping, this is your book! Let me show you how to go Shopping For A Man.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Self-Help: Relationships
Having started the new millennium we are in the midst of imminent changes. This era was foreseen five millennia ago, and described in tantric scriptures as the transition from the "Age of Darkness" to the "Age of Truth". The main intention of this book is to heighten the reader's understanding of this transformation and to assist in this time of change we are going through, individually as well as in society. Tantra considers the spiritual component of sexuality as it presents a balanced approach to life. Like Tantra this text is designed to enhance and support individual spiritual growth - in unity within a healing body. Holistic health is an ever-present undercurrent, since the work intertwines the conscious use of energy in the body with knowledge gleaned from ancient Tantra. Some parallels, between ancient East Indian Tantra and the highly developed cosmology of the pre-columbian Mayan culture, are also identified. The work is based on personal experiences. These have led the author to an energetic understanding of Tantra. Describing the use of certain meditations, different modes of energy-cleansing and cultivated sexuality, it attempts to reinforce the reader's courage and self-confidence. The goal is to master life, eventually becoming a "whole" human being - a microcosm within the macrocosm. In this context, the work seeks to clarify - from the focal point of energy and social programming - the adversities and opportunities that couples face as soon as either partner begins the journey to Self. It concludes, by pointing to a possible future vision - enabled by our consciousness and the actions we can take to bring on deepened awareness.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Self-Help: Relationships
An extraordinary love story, Wife Just Let Go – are the last words written by Robert Briggs to his wife, just before he passed away from Alzheimer’s. A publisher, literary agent, author, who felt the influence of the Beat era deeply, Robert’s love of literature, poetry and jazz, never faded. Even in his later stages of Alzheimer’s disease, Robert was able to share insights into what he called “the power of aging,” and his love of poetry, jazz and Zen. He continued to write, valiantly, of his younger days and of his stint in the army when he and his platoon witnessed an atomic bomb explosion at Frenchman Flat, Nevada, an experience that forever haunted his imagination. What began as a promise to publish his last works, evolved in this duo-memoir, where his wife, Diana, as his long time partner and primary care-person, who leaned on her practices in Zen and the Way of Tea, found herself joining him as a way to introduce his essays and poems. They provided solace and relief as she witnessed each day, the wrenching loss of her husband’s memory and finally his death. Diana brings a perfect balance to his essays with a more meditative commentary as she examines her own path of pain, grief, and illumination as a caregiver. Poignantly written yet unflinchingly honest, the book shares a way to navigate the waters of grief and loss where one may experience the other side of Alzheimer’s – gifts that a patient imparts that continually sustain and inspire loved ones left behind.
Robert Briggs is the author of American Emergency: A Search for Spiritual Renewal in an Age of Materialism and Ruined Time: The 1950s and the Beat.
Diana Saltoon is also a teacher of the Way of Tea and author of Tea and Ceremony: Experiencing Tranquility, The Common Book of Consciousness, and Four Hands: Green Gulch Poems. Her poems of haiku and tanka were recently published in New Bridges: A Haiku Anthology.
Wife, Just Let Go is for sale in Portland, Oregon, at Powell’s Books, Broadway Books, Annie Bloom’s and Daedulus, as well as online at Ingram and Amazon.
The story of a mother’s worst nightmare come true. Sarann’s emotion shows in her words, and you can almost feel what this mom is going through on the pages of her book. This is the story of how Sarann, Nicki and Alex survive tragedy and find themselves closer, stronger and now wanting to help others in the same situation. Statistics support her personal experience and give valuable information to the reader, and know there is help to be found in these pages if you are in a similar situation! Through this her tale will keep you from being able to put this book down. Keep your tissues handy as you follow Nicki and her mom through their process of discovery, trials and the aftermath of tragedy.
Two veteran psychiatrists unravel the mystery of how thought and emotional patterns are passed from parents to children, generation after generation, "conditioning" each of us in ways that endure throughout our lives and affect all of our relationships.
Explores a groundbreaking concept developed by two psychiatrists with 80 years of combined experience in dynamic psychotherapy with almost 2,000 patients
Offers strategies to help readers liberate themselves from limiting ways of relating to others, avoid automatic emotional responses, live life with intention, and create happier relationships
Brings to life the principles presented through vignettes from dynamic psychotherapy treatment
