Five steps to not living together anymore, but still happily
We enter into every relationship with the hope that we have found the right one or the right person. Unfortunately, the statistics are unrelenting: many of us experience the pain of breaking up with a life partner. But does the breakdown of a relationship necessarily have to be traumatic? So what is the best thing to do when the fairy tale ends?
Even when we try to break up in a civilised and amicable way, we rarely manage to overcome the biological setting of the brain, which perceives the end of the relationship as a threat to life and sends us a signal to fight. Despite this, therapist Katherine Woodward Thomas and her husband managed to divorce in a considerate, respectful manner and maintained their friendship. Based on this personal experience and years of working with clients, Katherine developed the conscious break-up methour Thanks to it, you can go through a stressful stage of life without deep psychological wounds or hatred and awaken not the worst, but the best that is in you.
Whether two or alone, take help in the form of this book and find out:
- How deeply a breakup ten or twenty years old can affect you.
- Why you need to go to your roots and find your primal wound.
- How to name your emotions and behave rationally.
- How to regain your inner strength and heal your broken heart.
- How to find the right level of fairness when dividing assets.
- How to communicate with another and maintain your own dignity.
Katherine Woodward Thomas is a marriage and family therapist and, in her own words, believes in love, marriage and long-term relationships. Nevertheless, she herself went through a divorce, which she and her husband handled with consideration and respect. From her own and her clients' experiences, she then developed a five-step method of breaking up - a conscious breakup that the participants go through healthily, without psychological trauma, feelings of hatred and anger. Instead, they can continue to see themselves and their partner as someone who deserves respect and love.
In the book you will learn, among other things
- working with varying degrees of their trauma and therapeutic forgiveness techniques
- name your emotions, which will help you behave rationally
- to challenge your false assumptions about yourself and find your self-worth again
- become aware of your needs and address them
- how to communicate with the other and maintain your own dignity
- find the right level of fairness in the division of assets
