Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment Book

Here is a powerful new program that can clear away the unconscious agreements patterns that undermine even your best intentions. Through their own marriage and through twenty years' experience counseling more than one thousand couples, therapists Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks have developed precise strategies to help you create a vital partnership and enhance the energy, creativity, and happiness of each individual. You will learn how to: Let go of power struggles and need for control; Balance needs for closeness and separateness; Increase intimacy by telling the "microscopic truth"; Communicate in a positive way that stops arguments; Make agreements you can keep; Allow more pleasure into your life. Addressed to individuals as well as to couples, Conscious Loving will heal old hurts and deepen your capacity for enjoyment, security, and enduing love. "I consider Gay and Kathlyn to be my teachers. I encourage you to buy this book and use it to the hilt."-John Bradshaw.

"Gay and Kathlyn's book offers invaluable insights into the real workings of making a lasting, breakthrough commitment."—Bonnie Raitt, singer-songwriter

From a husband and wife team of psychologists who live what they teach, here are powerful techniques for transforming painful relationships into satisfying ones. The Hendricks challenge couples to stop "sleepwalking" through life and work to achieve a passionate, productive and harmonious state of "co-commitment."