The Mindful Couple
The Mindful Couple

Author: Robyn D. Walser

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Published: 2009-02-14

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1608824829

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All of us want to be fully accepted in our relationships, yet it can be difficult to fully accept our partners for who they are. This insightful guide for couples is based on a simple concept: Act out of kindness, love, and acceptance, and you will open your relationship for the creation of greater kindness, love, and acceptance. With strategies drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a powerful therapeutic approach, this book will help you identify your core values and discover, as a couple, the beauty that is available to you and your partner when you bring greater awareness and values-guided behavior to your relationship. Each chapter explores a key issue, such as passion, fidelity, and the balance between dependence and independence, and includes specific practices you can do alone or with your partner to help you build a vital relationship.

The Mindful Couple
The Mindful Couple

Author: Craig Lambert

Publisher: Hawk Press

Published: 2019-11-11

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781733313308

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Couples therapists Craig and Debbie Lambert offer 52 strategies-one for each week of the year-for a happier, healthier relationship. Backed by the Lamberts' combined decades of experience, The Mindful Couple provides heartfelt advice for creating better dynamics and bringing more kindness, responsibility, and pleasure into your partnership.

Mindfulness and Acceptance in Couple and Family Therapy
Mindfulness and Acceptance in Couple and Family Therapy

Author: Diane R. Gehart

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-03-30

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1461430321

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This book reviews the research and philosophical foundations for using mindfulness, acceptance, and Buddhist psychology in couple and family therapy. It also provides a detailed and practical approach for putting these ideas into action in the therapy room, including a mindful approach to therapeutic relationships, case conceptualization, treatment planning, teaching meditation, and intervention.

Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection
Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection

Author: S. J. Scott & Barrie Davenport

Publisher: Jaico Publishing House

Published: 2024-05-20

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 8119792629

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It’s easy to fall in love. The challenging part is keeping that spark alive while you and your partner deal with “the real world”. Your relationship can often seem less urgent than the day-to-day emergencies that you deal with—your job, finances, children, and that to-do list full of chores. They all demand your immediate attention. What often gets lost in the shuffle is the love you share with your partner. If you want to build a deeper connection with your spouse or partner, then one solution is to build mindful relationship habits. In a mindful relationship, you are intentional about all your choices and interactions with your partner. You become more proactive in responding to each other’s needs and less reactive to the challenges that often arise. You evolve to a higher level of interaction with one another. The Wall Street Journal bestselling authors S.J. Scott and Barrie Davenport show you how to have a better relationship by applying 25 specific practices. These habits will help you be more present with one another, communicate better, avoid divisive arguments, and understand how to respond to one another’s needs in a more loving, empathic, and conscious way.

Mindful Relationships
Mindful Relationships

Author: Dr Richard Chambers

Publisher: Exisle Publishing

Published: 2016-02-29

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1775592766

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We are now experiencing what is being called ‘the mindfulness revolution’, as increasingly people become aware of the benefits of mindfulness in all aspects of daily life. This book focuses on individuals, couples, families, groups and businesses to provide a practical guide for using mindfulness to enrich relationships and more effectively manage the stresses associated with dispute resolution and conflict. The authors clearly and engagingly explore how we can use mindfulness to: • develop a more compassionate, friendly relationship with ourselves and others • increase awareness of our own and others’ relational patterns • calm and soothe our emotions and be there for others • communicate more effectively • enhance connection and empathy • reduce defensive patterns, allowing for more authenticity, and • work effectively within families and larger systems such as workplaces. Case studies are included throughout to highlight key principles, as well as practical exercises to enable the reader to develop their mindfulness skills.

Keeping the Love You Find
Keeping the Love You Find

Author: Harville Hendrix

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1993-02

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0671734202

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A guide to finding and keeping love shows readers how to meet the challenges of a new relationship, avoid making the same mistakes, deal with emotional issues, and improve their odds

Creating Relationship Wellness
Creating Relationship Wellness

Author: Stephanie Wijkstrom

Publisher: Universal-Publishers

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1627343377

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Mindfulness for your marriage is a tool book to be used by couples who want to gain the skill of relationship wellness. Each chapter offers evidence-based, and therapist verified techniques to gain insight into yourself and your partners world. Mindfulness for your marriage offers skills-based interventions that draw upon the fields of mindfulness and behavioral psychology, both recognized as pathways to enrichment. Each segment of this text builds upon the previous in an effort to lead the reader toward a mastery of relationship wellness. Divorce, separation, or disconnection do not always need to be the solution, a new approach to your problems will empower your path to reconnection. Prepare to break down specific methods of mindfulness and apply them during each chapter’s exercises as you practice to enhance your relationship. Each segment ends with practical exercises to do together or independently. In this unique text, you are offered thoughtful meditations that make relationship improvement understandable and easy. The writer houses an intimate understanding of human emotions and connections that she intersects in a meaningful way. It is not necessary to wait to improve your love until it is ailing, but here and now, relationship enhancement is offered as a preventative strategy in the attainment of interconnected wellbeing.

Passion and Presence
Passion and Presence

Author: Maci Daye

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1611808138

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Awaken your mindful sensuality and reconnect with your partner with Passion and Presence. Most romantic relationships follow a predictable pattern of initial enchantment followed by inevitable disenchantment. But relationships don't have to stay in disenchantment or end! Passion and Presence offers readers a proven path back to connection and intimacy--often in deeper ways than before. Sex therapist Maci Daye draws on her popular international Passion and Presence workshops to show couples how their erotic difficulties can be a portal to creativity, compassion, and unparalleled growth. Exercises and reflections guide readers down what Daye calls the "naked path" of awakened intimacy. On this path, we courageously examine ourselves, our barriers, and our relationship patterns, ultimately finding fresh ways to heal and connect, and revitalize eros. With gentle clarity, Daye addresses the everyday challenges of "real life" sex, such as sex that has become routine, differences in preferences or desire, power struggles, a history of trauma, changes ranging from childbirth to aging, infidelity, communication challenges, and more. Engaging stories depicting couples of diverse ages, backgrounds, genders, and orientations illustrate how the practice of Passion and Presence can help any couple establish a more intimate and wakeful erotic life.

The Transparent Brain in Couple and Family Therapy
The Transparent Brain in Couple and Family Therapy

Author: Suzanne Midori Hanna

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-29

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1000222527

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Bringing together clinical expertise with the latest findings from social, affective, and cognitive neuroscience, this accessible guide outlines how basic concepts of neuroscience and family therapy can be highly relevant to all mental health treatment. This expanded second edition includes content on a range of areas including effects of racism, poverty, violence, and childhood abuse on the brain; substance abuse; and advances in the treatment of depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety. Grounded in five key tenets of neuroscience, the approaches highlighted in this book focus on the safety of secure bonds for children, adolescents, couples, and families, as well as how an understanding of neuroscience can be utilized by professionals during trauma therapy. The stages of brain development provide a map for practitioners that illustrates dozens of practical, daily interventions. Chapters discuss neuroscience in light of a range of contemporary dilemmas for client engagement, accompanied throughout by fresh case examples, worksheets, clinical guidelines, and step-by-step interventions. Written in a jargon-free style, The Transparent Brain in Couple and Family Therapy, second edition is an essential resource for mental health professionals using neuroscientific principles to bring relief to clients from diverse backgrounds.

The Mindful Relationship
The Mindful Relationship

Author: Lauren Korshak LMFT

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2019-10-29

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1641526521

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A little something you can do every day to grow closer together. Develop growth and harmony with The Mindful Relationship. It's an easy guide that uses self-awareness to manage conflict, strengthen communication, and deepen intimacy between partners. The latest in research-based relationship books, it offers mindfulness tools that create a new path toward feeling more seen and loved. It's one of the only relationship books based in using meditation and therapy to help you feel more grounded and attentive. Move beyond bias and judgment and keep happiness and understanding at the center of your partnership. The Mindful Relationship features everything relationship books should: Personal and shared—These exercises can be done as a couple or on your own. Practice makes habit—Turn these practices into habits that will positively impact all of your relationships. A journey of growth—Start seeing yourself, your relationship, and your partner more mindfully. Make your relationship a sustainable one with techniques that you won't find in other relationship books.