Love between Equals
Love between Equals

Author: Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D.

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1611804787

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Learn how to successfully negotiate conflicts and deepen our most intimate relationships in this practical and thoughtful guide by an experienced Buddhist teacher, psychotherapist, and couples counselor. A committed relationship, as most people see it today, is a partnership of equals who share values and goals, a team united by love and dedicated to each other’s growth on every level. This contemporary model for coupledom requires real intention and work, and, more often than not, the traditional archetypes of relationships experienced by our parents and grandparents fail us or seem irrelevant. Utilizing the wisdom of her years of personal and professional practice, Young-Eisendrath dismantles our idealized projections about love, while revealing how mindfulness and communication can help us identify and honor the differences with our partners and strengthen our bonds. These practical and time-tested guidelines are rooted in sound understanding of modern psychology and offer concrete ideas and the necessary tools to reinforce and reinvigorate our deepest relationships.

Creating a Spiritual Relationship
Creating a Spiritual Relationship

Author: Paul Ferrini

Publisher: Paul Ferrini-Heartways Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781879159396

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This book is designed for people who are either in a committed relationship or want to be. A committed relationship is one path toward spiritual growth and transformation. It is not the only path, nor is it a very easy path. The seven spiritual laws discussed in Part Two of this book provide a roadmap for couples who are committed to their mutual spiritual growth. This simple but profound guide to growth and happiness for couples will help you and your partner weather the ups and downs of your relationship so that you can grow together and deepen the intimacy between you.

Empowering Couples
Empowering Couples

Author: Duane R. Bidwell

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1451426240

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Couples can make significant progress toward resolving their own problems when they receive appropriate guidance from a caring person. This book outlines five tasks focused on identity, agency, and meaning that spiritual caregivers can use to empower couples for significant change in just three to five conversations. This form of "empowering guidance" is a dimension of pastoral conversation rather than formal counseling. Critically integrating desert spiritual theology with empirical data about successful marriages, Bidwell advocates for mutuality and partnership within covenanted relationships, which allows partners to create an alliance strong enough to resist the forces that threaten relationships--especially the negative influences of criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and withdrawal.

Spirituality & Intimacy
Spirituality & Intimacy

Author: Raphael Aron

Publisher: Devora Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781932687866

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This book is about passion, romance, intimacy and spirituality. Its task is to destroy the myths that in turn destroy relationships. The book sets up a genuine challenge for couples of all ages encouraging them to breathe new life into their relationships by taking a deeper look into how relationships can be guided by a Torah perspective.

Sacred Pathways
Sacred Pathways

Author: Gary Thomas

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2009-09-17

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0310835542

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Sacred Pathways reveals nine distinct spiritual temperaments--and their strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies--to help you improve your spiritual life and deepen your personal walk with God. It's time to strip away the frustration of a one-size-fits-all spirituality and discover a path of worship that frees you to be you. Experienced spiritual directors, pastors, and church leaders recognize that all of us engage with God differently, and it's about time we do too. In this updated and expanded edition of Sacred Pathways, Gary Thomas details nine spiritual temperaments and--like the Enneagram and other tools do with personality--encourages you to investigate the ways you most naturally express yourself in your relationship with God. He encourages you to dig into the traits, strengths, and pitfalls in your devotional approach so you can eliminate the barriers that keep you locked into rigid methods of worship and praise. Plus, as you begin to identify and understand your own temperament, you'll soon learn about the temperaments that aren’t necessarily "you" but that may help you understand the spiritual tendencies of friends, family, and others around you. Whatever temperament or blend of temperaments best describes you, rest assured it's not by accident. It's by the design of a Creator who knew what he was doing when he made you according to his own unique intentions. If your spiritual walk is not what you'd like it to be, you can change that, starting here. Sacred Pathways will show you the route you were made to travel, marked by growth and filled with the riches of a close walk with God.

Spirituality, Intimacy, and Sexuality
Spirituality, Intimacy, and Sexuality

Author: John Galindo

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780809146413

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Addresses the long-standing estrangement between spirituality and sexuality and integrates them in a manner that is both practical and hopeful.

A Lifelong Love
A Lifelong Love

Author: Gary Thomas

Publisher: David C Cook

Published: 2021-04-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0830781218

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A good marriage isn’t something found; it’s something made. In this revised and updated edition of the bestselling book A Lifelong Love, author Gary Thomas shares that when couples pursue spiritual purpose and worship it builds lasting intimacy and friendship between them. In A Lifelong Love, Thomas takes couples on three essential journeys leading to a strong marriage: The journey toward each other The journey toward God The journey toward love Whether readers are feeling discouraged about their marriage or simply want to infuse their relationship with greater spiritual and relational passion, A Lifelong Love offers the guidance they need to embrace the eternal intentions that God has for them.

Conjugal Spirituality
Conjugal Spirituality

Author: Mary Anne McPherson Oliver

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781556123122

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Mary Anne Oliver develops an alternate to 'celibate' religious practices, drawing from the experience of couples and diverse sources in the Christian tradition. This work explores the dynamics of conjugal love.