Bring Yourself to Love: How Couples Can Turn Disconnection into Intimacy [Paperback]

Mona Barbera (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Dos Monos Press; First edition (June 10, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934787035
• ISBN-13: 978-1934787038
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,506 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help any relationship, May 18, 2009

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Bonnie Neely - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bring Yourself to Love: How Couples Can Turn Disconnection into Intimacy (Paperback)

Bring Yourself to Love: How Couple Can Turn Disconnection Into Intimacy by Mona Barbera, PH.D, is really a self-help workbook for anyone in a conflicted relationship, whether it be with spouse or other family members or friends whom you love. The author is an expert counsellor who uses the Internal Family Systems model for counseling couples. This book gives the necessary work sheet questions and ideas for anyone to explore how their relationship is undermined and how the individual can make changes in himself or herself to improve that relationship by changing responses to the partner's negative behaviour or negative comments. The book is straight-forward and easy to understand and it contains a wealth of knowledge from the experience of the author's counseling with hundreds of couples to help them rebuild their relationships. The price of the book and the hours to work through it will save you thousands of dollars in counseling and will augment any counseling experience. Save and rebuild your relationships for joy and mutual love by ordering this book today

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful and user-friendly, February 6, 2009

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Michael S. Kurjan (Connecticut) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bring Yourself to Love: How Couples Can Turn Disconnection into Intimacy (Paperback)

I think this is a wonderful book. It gives a very nice review of Internal Family Systems therapy as developed by Richard Schwartz. It is very user friendly and gives a number of practical guidelines in using this therapy in regard to relationships. The heart of this work is to "Give better back." The charts will guide you to develop a compassionate, Self-led response to your particular situation. Like many things that are simple, it is a commitment to do very important work. Also, only one person needs to do t work to get results, although it helps if both can do it. I hope the author will expland her ideas in another book by providing more examples and case histories of ther ideas.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars bringing hope, September 15, 2009

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Patty Collinge, LMHC (Cambridge, Ma. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bring Yourself to Love: How Couples Can Turn Disconnection into Intimacy (Paperback)

As a therapist, I have found this book so useful, both as it informs my own work, and also for the couples I see. It has helped them transform some of the really difficult dynamics that many couples believe are impossible to change. They, and I, both thank you for this book!