LifeWorks Recommended Books
LifeWorks Recommended Books
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It is our intention to add reviews and links to books we consider helpful, useful and informative and to provide inks to Amazon Books.com or The Book Depository as a way of facilitating purchase.
Some of the books we recommend were published many years ago, however 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 books such as these are readily available secondhand through Amazon.com for minimal cost. I also recommend the Book Depository as postage is free and they also have millions of books available.
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Perfect Love Imperfect Relationships - Counselling Dubai Recommended Books
Perfect Love Imperfect Relationships
By John Welwood
Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships begins by showing how all our relational problems arise out of a universal, core wounding around love that affects not only our personal relationships but the quality of life in our world as a whole. This wounding shows up as a pervasive mood of unloveĀa deep sense that we are not intrinsically lovable just as we are. And this shuts down our capacity to trust, so that even though we may hunger for love, we have difficulty opening to it and letting it circulate freely through us.
This book takes the reader on a powerful journey of healing and transformation that involves learning to embrace our humanness and appreciate the imperfections of our relationships as trail-markers along the path to great love. It sets forth a process for releasing deep-seated grievances we hold against others for not loving us better and against ourselves for not being better loved. And it shows how our longing to be loved can magnetize the great love that will free us from looking to others to find ourselves.
Written with penetrating realism and a fresh, lyrical style that honors the subtlety and richness of our relationship to love itself, this revolutionary book offers profound and practical guidance for healing our lives as well as our embattled world.
Women Who Love Too Much - Counselling Dubai Recommended Books
Women Who Love Too Much
By Robin Norwood
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
By Melody Beattie
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
By Elizabeth Lesser
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
By Hope Edelman
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.
Be Happy Without being Perfect - LifeWorks Counselling Dubai Recommended Books
Be Happy Without being Perfect
By Alice D Domar, Ph.D.
A review by a LifeWorks client
'Be Happy without being Perfect' is a well written, practical and thought provoking read. It addresses the consequences of perfectionist tendencies not only on the person but on those around them. It further offers practical advice and guidance on how to tackle perfectionism, de-stress and see the world from a happier perspective.
The book covers everything from relationships, work, child rearing, physical appearance, high expectations and decision-making. It is particularly good at identifying character traits that I wouldn't necessarily have considered perfectionism before, but form part of the perfectionist big picture. The case histories are insightful and add credence to the book. At times though, the advice seems a little simplistic.
On the downside, the book is written primarily for married women with children. Single career women might gain less from the book as it covers many issues not relevant to them. Also, it is written from an American perspective which was at times detrimental to my enjoyment.
This is a good read for all women suffering from anxiety caused by perfectionism. It will help them understand their feelings much more clearly and offers an alternative more positive way to view life and its many challenges.
The Five Love Languages - Counselling Dubai Recommended Books
The Five Love Languages:
How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
By Gary Chapman
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 TouchDr. 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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