Books — Family and Relationships

All Books on Family and Relationships (93)

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  Differentiation of Self

  Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives

  by Edited By Peter Titelman

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  I Want This to Work

  An Inclusive Guide to Navigating the Most Difficult Relationship Issues We Face in the Modern Age

  by Elizabeth Earnshaw, LMFT, CGT

  4.6/5
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  The Relationship Skills Workbook

  A Do-It-Yourself Guide to a Thriving Relationship

  by Julia B. Colwell, PhD

  4.4/5
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  The Motherly Guide to Becoming Mama

  Redefining the Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum Journey

  by Diana Spalding, Jill Koziol, Liz Tenety

  4.5/5
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  Motherhood

  Facing and Finding Yourself

  by Lisa Marchiano

  4.6/5
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  From Heartbreak to Wholeness

  The Hero's Journey to Joy

  by Kristine Carlson

  4.5/5
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  Ho’oponopono and Family Constellations

  A Traditional Hawaiian Healing Method for Relationships, Forgiveness and Love

  by Ulrich E. Duprée

  4.4/5
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  Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy

  Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch in Practice

  by Susan McConnell

  4.5/5
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  Live Your Life

  My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero

  by Amanda Kloots, Anna Kloots

  4.5/5
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  Better Apart

  The Radically Positive Way to Separate

  by Gabrielle Hartley, Elena Brower

  4.4/5
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  The ADHD Effect on Marriage

  Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps

  by Melissa Orlov

  4.5/5
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  When an Adult You Love Has ADHD

  Professional Advice for Parents, Partners, and Siblings

  by Russell A. Barkley, PhD

  4.4/5
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  Shortcuts to Mindfulness

  100 Ways to Personal & Spiritual Growth

  by Catherine Auman, LMFT

  4.4/5
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  The Highly Sensitive Person’s Guide to Dealing with Toxic People

  How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators

  by Shahida Arabi, MA

  4.4/5
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  Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters

  A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration

  by Karen C. L. Anderson

  4.4/5
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  Splitting

  Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder

  by Bill Eddy and Randi Kreger

  4.2/5
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  Talking to a Loved One with Borderline Personality Disorder

  Communication Skills to Manage Intense Emotions, Set Boundaries, and Reduce Conflict

  by Jerold J. Kreisman, MD

  4.4/5
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  When the Past Is Present

  When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage our Relationships

  by David Richo

  4.4/5
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  The Inner Child Workbook

  What to do with your past when it just won't go away

  by Cathryn L. Taylor, M.A., M.F.C.C.

  4.4/5
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  Transformation through Intimacy

  The Journey toward Awakened Monogamy

  by Robert Augustus Masters, PhD

  4.5/5
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  Addiction to Love

  Overcoming Obsession and Dependency in Relationships

  by Susan Peabody

  4.3/5
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  Daily Meditations for Women Who Love Too Much

  by Robin Norwood

  4.5/5
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  Daring to Trust

  Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

  by David Richo

  4.4/5
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  Love between Equals

  Relationship as a Spiritual Path

  by Polly Young-Eisendrath

  4.5/5
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  Deep Human Connection

  Why We Need It More than Anything Else

  by Stephen Cope

  4.3/5
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  Set Boundaries, Find Peace

  A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

  by Nedra Glover Tawwab

  4.6/5
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  Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls

  A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

  by Nina Renata Aron

  4.4/5
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  Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man

  Coping with Hidden Aggression - From the Bedroom to the Boardroom

  by Scott Wetzler, PhD

  4.4/5
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  Hold Me Tight

  Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

  by Dr. Sue Johnson, EdD

  4.5/5
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  Games People Play

  The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis

  by Eric Berne, MD

  4.3/5
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  The Invitation

  by Oriah

  4.5/5
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  Loving-Kindness in Plain English

  The Practice of Metta

  by Henepola Gunaratana

  4.4/5
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  The Parent’s Tao Te Ching

  Ancient Advice for Modern Parents

  by William Martin

  4.6/5
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  The Couple’s Tao Te Ching

  Ancient Advice for Modern Lovers

  by William Martin

  4.5/5
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  Everyday Zen

  Love and Work

  by Charlotte Joko Beck

  4.3/5
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  Parenting with Presence

  Practices for Raising Conscious, Confident, Caring Kids

  by Susan Stiffelman

  4.5/5
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  Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

  How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

  by Lindsay C. Gibson

  4.5/5
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  Inner Bonding

  Becoming a Loving Adult to Your Inner Child

  by Margaret Paul

  4.5/5
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  Getting the Love You Want

  A Guide for Couples

  by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D.

  4.4/5
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  Sexual Intelligence

  What We Really Want from Sex--and How to Get It

  by Marty Klein

  4.1/5

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Related Quotes

• "Friendship is the expression of our shared being, of love."

  — Rupert Spira

  What is Romantic Love?

• "Our external relationships are mirrors for our internal relationship. Others will love us and support us when we learn to love and support ourselves."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "… whatever the relationship, whether it be with a mate, a parent, a child, a friend, a coworker, or a professional, the ways we relate with others depend on the relationship we have with our Inner Child."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding: Becoming a Loving Adult to Your Inner Child

• "Our love is the most protective, enduring force we offer our children… The genuine sense that they are worth being cared for offers the bedrock of self-regard that will affect their behaviors and emotional well-being during childhood and adolescence, as well as the security from which they will launch into adulthood."

  — Kenneth R. Ginsburg, Martha M. Jablow

  Building Resilience in Children and Teens

• "When your relationship exhibits consistently high levels of secure functioning, you and your partner automatically increase the resources you’re able to use for personal development, mutual physical and mental health… You become more resilient as individuals and as a couple, able to manage the slings and arrows of life and its unknowns."

  — Stan Tatkin

  We Do

• "There’s no ideal partner… There’s only the good enough partner who is perfectly imperfect."

  — Stan Tatkin

  We Do

• "Nobody signs up for marriage because they want to be changed by their partner. It doesn’t work. Ever. Go all in or go home. Marriage and commitment can only work if we accept each other wholeheartedly."

  — Stan Tatkin

  We Do

• "For a strong and lasting partnership, both of us must be connected to our own inner feelings, as well willing to be open to learning about the other’s."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "If we want our children to discover their passion and purpose, we must stay open to what they drift toward rather than pushing them in directions we prefer they follow but that do not call to them."

  — Susan Stiffelman

  Parenting with Presence

• "It is our challenge and opportunity to foster in our children the living, breathing knowledge that they are worthy — as is — of being loved."

  — Susan Stiffelman

  Parenting with Presence

• "Solace and care come from many sources. Others who listen deeply, attentively, and nonjudgmentally can be found in the least expected places. Take note, pay attention, and seek help from those willing to be present with you. Time with these kinds of people can carry you through perilous terrain."

  — Joanne Cacciatore

  Bearing the Unbearable

• "One of the difficulties with shame is that it does not seem to be expressed and released in the same way as other feelings: Sadness and grief are released through crying, anger through yelling and stomping about, fear through screaming and shaking… Though it appears not to discharge, it does seem to dissipate under very special circumstances—the nonjudgmental, accepting contact of another human being."

  — Babette Rothschild

  The Body Remembers

• "The openness of love is timeless. When you are with another being in love, you are sharing your being, your presence. You are just here, together in love."

  — Ram Dass

  Polishing the Mirror

• "When you say, “I fell in love with so-and-so,” what you are really saying is, “So-and-so turns me on to the place in me where I am the ocean of love.”"

  — Ram Dass

  Polishing the Mirror

• "To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue."

  — C.S. Lewis

  The Four Loves

• "Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."

  — C.S. Lewis

  The Four Loves

• "The love and understanding of a friend, like a deep well of the purest water, refreshes the very source of our being."

  — Tara Brach

  Radical Acceptance

• "The true quality of our love is exposed by the stresses and strains of our relationships with others, especially those with whom we work the closest."

  — Alexander Strauch, Robert L. Peterson

  Agape Leadership

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