Mark Bryan's work is bringing families together. He was a member of Oprah Winfrey's 1999 "Change Your Life" team and a regular on her show, where he reunites parents and children. Now, counselor, educator, and co-founder of The Artist's Way Workshops, Mark Bryan offers an audiobook that will help all of us get closer to our family members and achieve deeper intimacy by cracking the Codes of Love.
As a counselor, Bryan reconnects parents and grown children despite the pain, bitterness, and anger when the work begins. In helping families find buried closeness, Bryan has learned many lessons about what it takes to open people's hearts. He shares these lessons here -- as well as his own family story, which he weaves throughout the book, a story that poignantly illustrates how reconnection is more than possible, even after years of separation.
Bryan's key insight is that families often communicate love in code, using words, actions, and behaviors that not only may obscure love but sometimes get interpreted as love's opposite. Messages of affection, caring, and concern may be sent in ways that other family members read as negative judgments, efforts to control and undermine. Gaps in communication cause the messages to get lost or distorted in transit. These gaps result from generational and life differences, contrasting emotional and conversational styles, "interference" from a legacy of past conflicts, and other factors. If you can decode your family's messages of love and affection, from the past and from today, you can open the door to richer family ties.
Codes of Love is a guide that offers the basic tools for creating better relationships with parents, siblings, grown sons and daughters, spouses, even old friends -- all the loved ones in your life. Bryan explores why family affection so often gets buried or forgotten, then shows us how to recover warmth and rebuild family bonds. He gives readers the necessary tools to crack the Codes Of Love in their own.
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Mark Bryan has been a teacher and writer for over a decade, and is a nationally known speaker in the human potential movement. He is the cofounder (with Julia Cameron) of The Artist's Way. His experience both in developing extremely effective self-help techniques for The Artist's Way and as a reunited father led him to create this program to help estranged fathers. Bryan received his masters in family education from Harvard University and is Director of The Father Project, affiliated with the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology, Boys Development and the Culture of Manhood. He is currently researching The Artist's Way for Work. Mark Bryan lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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By Debi (Thousand Oaks, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Codes Of Love - How To Rethink Your Family And Remake Your Life (Hardcover)
I found this book so helpful that I bought 20 plus copies for family and friends. I have new compassion for people, especially my family. It amazes me to now recognize how many ways I was given love that I did not recognize because it was not given the way I thought it should be shown. After many years of absence, I am going home for Christmas this year. The knowledge gained from Codes of Love has provided me with a new perspective. It will be a much more pleasant holiday. Thank you Mark Bryan.
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Great principles that are practical!,
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This review is from: Codes Of Love - How To Rethink Your Family And Remake Your Life (Hardcover)
Mark Bryan has great communication skills, and leads the reader step-by-step by the hand to a much more loving life. Meaning, reconciliation is a key emphasis in this excellent book. It's probably one of the best relationship and family books out there. Another book that goes hand-in-hand with this one as it also has this certain unique blend of a psychological and spiritual approach, and a book that has helped me tremendously to become a more loving and forgiving person as I also learned to appreciate myself and others in a much deeper way, is Dietmar Scherf's "I Love Me: Avoiding and Overcoming Depression" which is also available at Amazon.com
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By Teresa Johnson (Boise, ID) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Codes Of Love - How To Rethink Your Family And Remake Your Life (Hardcover)
Thank you for this wonderful book of reflection aids!I have spent a great deal of time reviewing my memories, and have thought "shame on me" for some of the narrow minded ideas that I have held so close. This book has helped me see arguements in my past in a new light. I have already approached and settled some things with others in close pursuit. I intend to read portions of this book aloud to my children (3 teens), I believe that it will help them start early on the road to healthy adult relationships with family members and elders. Thank you again, Teresa Johnson
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