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The 10 Keys to a Successful Remarriage
Based on the author’s personal experience, over 30 years of clinical practice, knowledge from leading marriage and remarriage researchers, and 100 in-depth interviews of remarried people, The Remarriage Manual offers 10 essential keys to a successful remarriage:
Build a Culture of Appreciation, Respect, and Tolerance. Negativity is toxic. Personal growth and love are possible when you can express appreciation through positive words and actions.
Make Your Remarriage a Top Priority. Never underestimate the power of intentional time with your partner to increase physical and emotional intimacy.
Ditch the Baggage from Your First Marriage. Learn ways to be more reflective and less reactive to triggers that hit raw spots or vulnerabilities stemming from prior relationships.
Don’t Keep Secrets about Money. Remarried couples face complicated financial issues such as unequal assets, child support, alimony, and education costs for children and stepchildren. Honesty and full disclosure about finances are essential.
Don’t Let Mistrust Stop You from Being Vulnerable and Emotionally Intimate. Learn that vulnerability and trust go hand in hand and the steps you can take to be authentic and intimate with your partner so you can achieve long-lasting love.
It is the stuff of childhood dreams: standing at the altar and pledging to love each other for better or for worse. The unfortunate truth is that many people who are or who have been married, really don’t know what they are agreeing to; the nightmare of how bad “worse” can get.Stacia and Ed Gowens invite you to travel with them on a “Fantastic Voyage” of TRUE love. From starry eyed, completely smitten youngsters to busy parents of young children and then into the brick wall; infidelity times two. The story is told from three sides; Stacia’s, “She-Do”, Ed’s “He-Do” their common reflections and experiences, “We-Do”. Along the way, you will sing, dance and reminisce along a musical journey. Beginning with their Young Love (Janet Jackson) to their first big cross-country relocation with Motown Philly (Boyz II Men), their Confessions (Usher) and ultimately end with where their relationship is today, Endless Love (Diana Ross & Lionel Richie). As each phase of their relationship unfolds, the warning signs that were ignored, common marriage obstacles to look out for, and key lessons learned are revealed as a guide to help other couples avoid the pain that they endured.
After 30 years of clinical research and treatment of patients with unhealthy love lives, Dr. Thomas Jordan discovered that most people aren't actually in control of their own love lives. Why? Because most people don't know how to identify and change what they've learned from the love relationships in their lives. In Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life, you'll learn how to make real—and lasting—improvements in your love life. Starting with our families of origin, we learn from all the love relationships in our lives, especially the unhealthy ones. Learn to Love will show you how these earlier relationship experiences form a "psychological blueprint" that shapes the love life experiences we have as adults. If what you've learned about love relationships was healthy, chances are you'll have a healthy love life. If what you've learned was unhealthy, chances are you'll unwittingly replicate what was unhealthy over and over again. Learn to Love will show you how to unlearn this unhealthy learning and form the love relationships you've always wanted to have. The simple formula presented within the pages of this book has helped many of Dr. Jordan's patients begin taking control of their love lives, and as Dr. Jordan discusses in his book, it has helped him improve his own love life as well. Learn to Love will help you learn how to take control of your love life.
Finalist Self-Help: Relationships The 2020 Best Book Awards
The Book of Help traces one woman’s life-long quest for love, connection, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies, Megan Griswold’s narrative spans four decades and six continents—from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil, to academia, the Ivy League, and the study of Eastern medicine.
Megan was born into a family who enthusiastically embraced the offerings of New Age California culture—at seven she asked Santa for her first mantra and by twelve she was taking weekend workshops on personal growth. But later, when her newly-wedded husband calls in the middle of the night to say he’s landed in jail, Megan must accept that her many certificates, degrees and licenses had not been the finish line she’d once imagined them to be, but instead the preliminary training for what would prove to be the wildest, most growth-insisting journey of her life.
Finalist Self-Help: Relationships The 2020 Best Book Awards
Jill Sherer Murray lived in a dead-end relationship into her forties before she finally let it go. She was like millions of women who struggle with whether to stay in a loveless marriage, a bad relationship, or give up on dating altogether, believing love isn’t in the cards. You may be struggling with a similar decision yourself. Perhaps you’re terrified of being single, and yet you don’t truly feel you’re living the life you want.
With warmth and honesty, Murray shows you how letting go—of feeling stuck, afraid, and alone, and of believing what you’ve got is all you deserve—can free you from a life that isn’t serving you. She knows this is true, because she did it herself—and ultimately attracted the love and life she wanted. Through her story, other women’s stories, surprising facts and statistics, and helpful exercises, Big Wild Love will show you the way back to the self you’ve lost. It will put you on the path to change and teach you that, wherever you are, it’s never too late to start anew and find the Big Wild Love you deserve.
Finalist Self-Help: Relationships The 2020 Best Book Awards
Shine light into the darkness that surrounds sexual abuse."Awakening the Light" first invites readers into Tambry Harris's story of loss, abuse, and eventually healing. Then Tambry walks readers through the stages of forming, launching, evolving, awakening, claiming, and thriving. Her mindful method guides readers to explore their own stories and see the main characters (themselves) more holistically and maybe even more compassionately than ever before. Readers claim a vision for their going-forward stories, the future chapters of their lives. The overarching hope of this inspiring book is to create a community of people who are moving from surviving to thriving and journeying together.
Finalist Self-Help: Relationships The 2020 Best Book Awards
Mr. Gocke's book is written from an expert but layman's point of view which makes this such a unique and sometimes humorous, down-to-earth approach to gratitude and appreciation for long-term relationships. Earning a Master of Science Degree in Labor Relations from West Virginia University has given Mr. Gocke a strong background in the area of human relations. Having been an Associate Professor of Management for thirty years, Mr. Gocke has gained insight and a broad perspective concerning the effects of appreciation and gratitude on relationships. Because his courses were so human-relations oriented, his expertise has been enhanced through the years. His personal encounters with students over those years with so many different personality types taught him the value of appreciation and gratitude when dealing with difficult issues. He also realized that any healthy relationship needs appreciation for long-term survival. According to Mr. Gocke, gratitude and appreciation are at the very heart and soul of bonding as human beings.
Finalist Self-Help: Relationships The 2020 Best Book Awards
In Life, Hope, and Forgiveness, author D. G. Crabbe, tells her life story in order to bring more clarity to an important topic: resentment. She describes her life's past pain and grudges, starting with childhood and continuing through to middle age. She explains how she worked through her own process to forgive others. Her process includes 3 parts:
Forgive the past
Love yourself
Integrate mindfulness.
Telling her story, she creates a model for healing the mind and heart. Helped by meditation and a positive spirit, the author communicates how she transformed her life with hope and forgiveness as allies.
Finalist Self-Help: Relationships The 2020 Best Book Awards
What's important to you in your life? Is it your bank account, the car you drive, the house you live in, the number of initials behind your name, power and prestige? Or is it the people you share your life and connect with? The people that challenge you, open your eyes to new things, and bond with you. Chris Kramer has discovered that the human connection is powerful and vital to success in his work as a critical-care nurse and in family life.
This story highlights the impact human connection had on the author s life as a pediatric nurse, a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a friend, and stranger still a human. His story sheds light on the practices and habits one needs to create a meaningful connection. Readers will benefit, personally and professionally, as they identify these characteristics in their own life journey or learn to apply those they’ve been lacking. Either way, it will leave readers reflecting about the person they are and the person they wish to become. The book will appeal to medical practitioners and students, educators, and all those whose personal or professional life involves connecting with family, team members, or clients.
Of connection, Kramer tells us, without it, we struggle; with it, we thrive.
