Creating Love: A New Way of Understanding Our Most Important Relationships (Paperback)

~ (Author) "In my early teens I worked as a grocery checker at Butera's Food Market in Houston, Texas..." (more)
Key Phrases: mystified love, trance defenses, deep trance phenomena, Stage Two, Stage Three, Milton Erickson (more...)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Bradshaw's practical, often profound guide to building healthy, loving relationships was a seven-week PW bestseller.
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Product Description

In Creating Love, John Bradsgaw provides a new way to understand our most crucial relationships: with parents and children, with friends and co-workers, with ourselves, and with God.

He shows us how we have been literally "entranced" by past experiences of counterfeit love, how we can break these destructive patterns, and how we can open ourselves to the soul-building work of real love.

John Bradshaw has touched and changed millions of lives through his nationally televised PBS series and his best-selling books. His previous book, Homecoming, introduced the concept of the inner child to a vast new audience. Now he defines the "next great stage of growth"--how we can work to create healthy, loving relationships in every part of our lives.

Written for everyone who has struggled with painful relationships and is seeking hope and a new direction, Creating Love is a life-changing book.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (January 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553373056
• ISBN-13: 978-0553373059
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #43,449 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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37 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best yet, September 3, 1999

By A Customer

The style of this book surpasses anything that Mr. Bradshaw has written. In other words, although his other books are nice, his writing style is not fluent. He must have had help perhaps, but this one flows fluently. The quality of the material is earth shattering. Very few books have I read from cover to cover within a week and this one I did. This is something I can go over and over.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Creating the love you want, April 20, 2009

By	L. Murdock - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have not read all of this but what I have read is very helpful about understanding dynamics of why we continue to live our lives in the past, though we may not know it. He is coming from a place of exposing the shame element and people who come from or understand the 12 step programs will recognize his way of demystifying pain and shame. He is a gentle caring soul who really wants us to understand and reveal ourselves TO ourselves and then be able to move on.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars self help, May 30, 2007

By	Mr. Ronald C. Brown "Giggles" (Melbourne, Astralia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My wife is an avid fan, John Bradshaw's books are very easy to read and put into practice. A good book.