What are the ingredients of a successful and enduring relationship? Love, passion, and commitment are all vitalyet without certain basic skills, even the most devoted partners can find themselves descending into arguments, power struggles, and disillusionment. With The Relationship Skills Workbook, Dr. Julia Colwell presents a practical guide for building a conscious partnership based on cooperation and trustoffering relationship-saving techniques and on-the-spot conflict resolution tools for disarming the explosive clashes that most commonly break couples apart. In this friendly and easy-to-use resource, Dr. Colwell teaches you essential tools for: Crisis and conflict first aidcommunication strategies and emotional mastery techniques to stop arguing and start connecting Getting unstuck from power struggleshow to shift from deadlock to mutual responsibility and support Ending the blame gameletting go of accusation and resentment to create win-win agreements Supporting each other's growth and successhow to retain your personal autonomy while fully committing to your partner's happiness Moving from reactivity to creative solutionstechniques to keep your brain's flight-or-fight instinct from undermining your heart's desires Sustaining love, passion, and romancehow you can choose to create a magnificent relationship together Relationships, while seemingly complicated, don't have to be so mysterious, Dr. Colwell says. What I've learned from my decades of personal and professional experiences is that a few elegantly simple concepts and skills can help any couple through the most difficult spotsand help us transform conflict into intimacy, passion, and ever-deepening love.
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Weight: 466g
Dimensions: 254 x 205mm
Publication Date: 01 Oct 2014
Publisher: Sounds True Inc
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781622032273
About Julia B. Colwell
Julia B. Colwell Julia B. Colwell PhD has spent over three decades and many thousands of hours with individuals couples and groups exploring the world of relationships. Julie received her training as a clinical psychologist at the University of Colorado. Moving out of the world of traditional talk therapy into a body-centered focus she's fine-tuned a style that is at once direct respectful gentle confrontational and loving co-creating personal and relationship transformation. Julie has a private practice in Boulder Colorado where she facilitates the transformation of individuals couples groups and organizations. She is the inspiration behind and the co-founder of the Boulder Center for Conscious Community where she teaches a range of classes groups and workshops and leads the Intensive Learning Community and the Life Alignment Program. Julia is happy to celebrate her recent marriage to her partner Kathryn Kucsan after being with her for 26 years. Their main vision of their relationship is to do whatever supports each of them to be happyand they have kitchen-tested everything Julie teaches in their time together. For more visit JuliaColwell.com.