Counselling Dubai Recommended Books

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It is my intention to add reviews and links to books I consider helpful, useful and informative and to provide the link to Amazon Books.com as a way of facilitating purchase.

Some of the books I recommend were published many years ago, however I believe the content is still up to date, practical and very worthwhile reading. As it may be impossible to purchase these older books in the UAE, often I find books such as these are readily available secondhand through Amazon.com for minimal cost.

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Women Who Love Too Much    - Counselling Dubai Recommended Books

Women Who Love Too Much

I highly recommend Women Who Love Too Much for women (and men) who find themselves following the same pattern in relationships over and over - losing themselves while they seek the 'best' for their partner. Robin Norwood writes in a clear, precise and empathetic manner, using many case studies to highlight the origins of this patterned behaviour, and giving clear guidelines for the way out.

Do you find yourself attracted again and again to troubled, distant, moody men -- while "nice guys" seem boring?

Do you obsess over men who are emotionally unavailable, addicted to work, hobbies, alcohol, or other women?

Do you neglect your friends and your own interests to be immediately available to him?

Do you feel empty without him, even though being with him is torment?

Robin Norwood's groundbreaking work will enable you to recognize the roots of your destructive patterns of relating and provide you with a step-by-step guide to a more rewarding way of living and loving.

If being in love means being in pain, you need to read Women Who Love Too Much.

Co-Dependent No More     - Counselling Dubai Recommended Books

Codependent No More:
How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

I have been recommending Co-dependent No More for many years now and know many people who have found excellent help through reading it. In this straightforward guide, readers are shown through personal examples and exercises how controlling others forces them to lose sight of their own needs and happiness.

Many people are familiar with the term 'co-dependency' to describe behaviour around alcoholism. Melody Beattie describes how in fact co-dependency forms a large part of many relationships and offers practical guidelines, help and advice to identify and change this way of thinking.

Reading Co-dependent No More helps to identify and understand when this pattern of behaviour has become your way of functioning in relationships.

Codependent No More has now sold 3.5 million copies and Melody Beattie has since written nine more books, appeared in the pages of Newsweek and People and has been a regular guest on Geraldo and Oprah.

Highly recommended.

Broken Open     - Counselling Dubai Recommended Books

Broken Open:
How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

Broken Open is a book I have recommended countless times because of the way it relates to our deepest feelings, needs and fears.

Elizabeth Lesser bravely and beautifully explores one of the most compelling questions of life: how do we emerge from suffering and challenge with real, encompassing wisdom and love. Broken Open is personal, pragmatic and enlightening!

The idea is not that we MUST embrace our evils in order to grow, but that we can use our times of depression,anxiety, or pain to transform us into more open people. Elizabeth Lesser calls this process of transformation "The Phoenix Process." She beautifully illustrates how difficult times really can help us grow by giving us the story of her first marriage and how the pain she endured during it made her better afterward. She also includes stories of others who have gone through their own struggles in life.

Not only is Broken Open emotionally educational, it is also interesting and entertaining. From the first chapter, you will be drawn into this book, only to emerge later on with a completely different outlook on the pain and strife of your daily life.

Broken Open is well written, practical, and inspiring. For me it is the primer on suffering and change.

Motherless Daughters     - Counselling Dubai Recommended Books

Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

I recommend this compelling book for any woman who is motherless. Hope Edelman shares her own painful story and the stories of many other women who, as children or adults, lost their mothers. She explains the stages of grief and adjustment and considers the secondary effects that can occur: the girl-child filling the lost mother's role at home for father and younger siblings.

The death of a mother--particularly during one's young years--is traumatic. Writing of her own experiences of losing her mother when she was 17, and the grief of hundreds of women she interviewed who lost their mothers through death, abandonment or another form of separation, Hope Edelman marshals a wealth of anecdotal evidence, supplemented with psychological research about bereavement, that indicates that one's longing for a mother never disappears.

Though the focus is on early loss for girls and the implications for their developing identity, adult daughters also speak in these pages to provide another poignant perspective. The author succeeds in opening up cathartic dialogues, personalizing a life-changing event and offering guidelines to help women of any age live with their loss.

The Five Love Languages     - Counselling Dubai Recommended Books

The Five Love Languages:
How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

Are you and your partner speaking the same language?

While love is a many splendoured thing, it is sometimes a very confusing thing, too. And as people come in all varieties, shapes, and sizes, so do their choices of personal expressions of love. But more often than not, the giver and the receiver express love in two different ways. This can lead to misunderstanding, quarrels, and even divorce.

Quality Time

Words of Affirmation

Gifts

Acts of Service

Physical Touch

Dr. Gary Chapman identifies five basic languages of love and then guides couples towards a better understanding of their unique languages of love.

Learn to speak and understand your mate's love language, and in no time you will be able to effectively love and truly feel loved in return. Skillful communication is within your grasp!

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