The simple phrase ""I love you"" is terribly important to people-so what keeps so many of us from saying it? In Reclaim Your Relationship, Ron and Pat Potter-Efron, marriage therapists who have been married for 37 years, combine their real-life and clinical experience in this practical and accessible workbook designed to help individuals improve connections in their relationships with those they love. Presenting engaging, hands-on exercises, the authors help readers learn to say ""I love you"" to their partners with ease and genuine meaning,...
An interactive workbook to help couples reconnect
The simple phrase ""I love you"" is terribly important to people-so what keeps so many of us from ...
Providing a practical model for understanding the cycle of shame, guilt, and addiction and offering insight on the emotional realities of substance abuse, this work provides suggestions for treating substance-abusing clients and their families. It explores the positive functions of shame and guilt, describes the defense mechanisms against them, and
Providing a practical model for understanding the cycle of shame, guilt, and addiction and offering insight on the emotional realities of substance ab...
Explore the causes and effects of the shame/guilt/addiction cycle Since the original edition in 1989, great strides have been made in understanding the overlapping functions of shame and guilt and the ways these painful emotions are linked with addictions. Shame, Guilt, and Alcoholism: Treatment Issues in Clinical Practice, Second Edition, integrates up-to-date psychological research with penetrating insight into the emotional realities of substance abuse. It provides a clear and practical model for understanding the shame/guilt/addiction cycle.Shame, Guilt, and Alcoholism...
Explore the causes and effects of the shame/guilt/addiction cycle Since the original edition in 1989, great strides have been made in unders...
Here is an informational and practical book that systematically addresses the complex relationships between chemical abuse/dependency, aggression, and family violence. Directed toward professional chemical dependency and family violence counselors, it provides specific guidelines for the assessment of child abuse, incest, and marital rape, as they are likely to be encountered in a chemical dependency treatment setting. Experts outline treatment suggestions for chemically dependent and codependent individuals who are or have been the victims/perpetrators of family violence. Aggression, Family...
Here is an informational and practical book that systematically addresses the complex relationships between chemical abuse/dependency, aggression, and...
Letting Go of Shame: Understanding How Shame Affects Your Life helps to explain the emotion of shame and its impact on our self-image and relationships. As we identify shame and use recovery skills to work through it, Letting Go of Shame: Understanding How Shame Affects Your Like helps to explain the emotion of shame and its impact on our self-image and relationships. The authors offer us a way that we can personalize a plan of action to help build our self-esteem, and they suggest exercises to help us identify our feelings of shame.
Letting Go of Shame: Understanding How Shame Affects Your Life helps to explain the emotion of shame and its impact on our self-image and relationship...
If you've picked up this book, chances are you're someone with a serious anger problem. Your explosive temper has probably cost you jobs, friends, loved ones--maybe even your liberty. If it hasn't yet, it soon will, unless you do something about it.
This book contains a powerful and straightforward system for taking control of your anger and your life. This program is not easy, and it might even be painful at times--but it works. The book will teach you how your anger escalates and what you can do to change your angry thoughts and behaviors. Then it's your turn. When you make and...
If you've picked up this book, chances are you're someone with a serious anger problem. Your explosive temper has probably cost you jobs, friends, ...
