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Attitudes of Gratitude in Love: Creating More Joy in Your Relationship [Hardcover]

M. J. Ryan (Author), Daphne Rose Kingma (Foreword)
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January 2003
In her characteristically down-to-earth style, M. J. Ryan helps readers find greater happiness in their relationships — and recall why they fell in love in the first place — through the practice of gratitude. Focusing on what's right rather than on what's wrong, the book is divided into two sections: the attitudes of gratitude that bring more joy, peace, and love into one’s life, and the simple actions that can improve any relationship. Chapters include “Look at the Lessons Love Is Teaching You,” “Don’t Take for Granted What You’ve Got,” and “Practicing Gratitude Is Not About Being a Doormat.”
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From Publishers Weekly

Conari Press cofounder M.J. Ryan admits that while it's easy to be grateful for sun, rain and good food, it's much harder to practice gratitude in intimate relationships. But adding gratefulness to a relationship can help remind people why they fell in love in the first place, fuel happiness and even deepen love. In Attitudes of Gratitude in Love: Creating More Joy in Your Relationship, Ryan (Attitudes of Gratitude) presents a multitude of brief essays on not taking love for granted, ditching feelings of resentment, the benefits of relationship gratitude and giving in order to receive. The book's boxy shape and colorful cover make it an appropriate gift.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

From Library Journal

Cofounder of Conari Press and coeditor of the "Random Acts of Kindness" series, Ryan returns with another little feel-good book. Radiating enough cheer to perk up Archie Bunker, this successor to the best-selling Attitudes of Gratitude spins positive angles on being grateful for the hard work that characterizes long-term relationships (e.g., "The more you're thankful, the more you'll receive"). Each section is simple if generic and features an epigraph purer than the text. Aimed primarily at married couples, it basically screams "gift book"; if similar material (e.g., Amy Dean's Night Light) spikes circulation at your public library, fine. Chicken Soup for the Soul? It's more like popcorn. Purchase as needed.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 198 pages
  • Publisher: MJF Books (January 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 156731564X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1567315646
  • Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,001,777 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

M.J. combines a practical business perspective gained as a CEO of a publishing company with a strength-based approach to help clients reach professional and personal goals. Using methodologies from positive psychology and neuroscience, she is able to quickly identify a client's underlying thinking talents and helps them efficiently use them to overcome challenges and maximize success. She has coached many high level executives as well as entrepreneurs and individuals around the world who want lives of greater purpose and success.

Her clients include Frito Lay, Microsoft, Royal Dutch Shell, the U.S. military, Hewitt Associates, SRAK (a joint venture between Shell and the Saudi Arabian National Oil Company), the Cowell Foundation, the Boys and Girls Club, and the town of Paradise, Ca.

She is the author of many best-selling books including her latest ADAPTABILITY: How to Survive Change You Didn't Ask For and THIS YEAR I WILL...How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution or Make A Dream Come True.

www.MJ-Ryan.com

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Love is the way we walk in gratitude, February 19, 2003
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Don't be duped by the mind-candy, girly look of this book's cover! Attitudes of Gratitude deserves to be taken seriously by anyone who's serious about the practice of love. It's absolutely impossible to read this book without reflecting on all that you have received from your relationships and from your life experience. This powerful and potent feature makes the book worth buying and reading.

MaryJane Ryan also reminds us that gratitude is a simple and effective tool for quickly undoing the false judgments we hold against self and others. This is because gratitude and resentment are mutually exclusive, and each one cancels the other one out. Because gratitude enables you to swiftly change your mind, it's a kind of magic fairy dust that turns you into the person you most want to be. Gratitude is easy. It's fast. And anyone can do it. Try it for yourself and see. (The Spiritual Reviewer)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, January 9, 2007
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This book is really great, whenever you find yourself getting frustated, or depressed or just fed up, it is a real pick-me-up, literally. It is a book you can read over and over again to feel calm and content in your everyday life. Brings you back down to earth and really makes you just appreciate the small things. I love it :-) Thanks Mary !
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5.0 out of 5 stars Attitudes of Gratitude in Love: Creating More Joy in Your Relationship, August 9, 2010
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I recently reinstituted my practice of gratitude and it was heartening to read an encouraging publication about practising gratitude in relationships. This book reminded me to celebrate and accentuate the positives in my partner and also to appreciate the precious gift that I am to him. A must-read for putting that spark back in those jaded spirits and reminding you why you chose that special person in the first place!
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