Receiving Love Workbook: A Unique Twelve-Week Course for Couples and Singles

Receiving Love Workbook: A Unique Twelve-Week Course for Couples and Singles

Receiving Love Workbook: A Unique Twelve-Week Course for Couples and Singles

Receiving Love Workbook: A Unique Twelve-Week Course for Couples and Singles

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Overview

A companion workbook to the critically acclaimed relationship book
Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved


In 2004, Harville Hendrix and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, authored Receiving Love, a critically acclaimed guide to cultivating a loving, long-lasting relationship that Publishers Weekly called "intelligent and insightful . . . wise and sophisticated." Now, in the Receiving Love Workbook, Hendrix and Hunt have constructed a companion to that groundbreaking book in which they outline a simple, practical plan that will help you to apply the advice and exercises in Receiving Love to your own relationship.

Receiving Love showed that while many men and women know how to give love, many more undermine their relationships by never having learned how to accept it. The Receiving Love Workbook will help you and your partner to explore the effect that this type of self-rejection has had in your individual lives and in your relationship as a couple. It contains a unique twelve-week course designed to help you work through the exercises in Receiving Love. It provides the same step-by-step instructions and examples that couples who participate in a couples' workshop or work with an Imago Relationship Therapist would experience.

For those who are ready to take specific steps to surmount the self-rejection and heal its causes, the Receiving Love Workbook will help you to make the changes that will establish an easy, natural pattern of giving and receiving love and that will create the relationship of your dreams.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780743483711
Publisher: Atria Books
Publication date: 05/09/2006
Edition description: Original
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., a clinical pastoral counselor and co-creator of Imago Relationship Therapy, has more than thirty-five years' experience as an educator, public lecturer, and couples' therapist.

Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. used her education in psychology to help develop the Imago process as well as to support gender equity — for which she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She is in great demand as a public speaker.

Table of Contents

How to Use the Receiving Love Workbook1
Session 1The Gift Diary16
Part IThe Receiving Inventory18
Exercise: Construct Your Receiving Inventory18
Part IIDaily Gift Record20
Exercise: Keep a Daily Gift Record20
Part IIIDream Gift List22
Exercise: Keep a Dream Gift List for Your Partner22
Session 2The Imago Dialogue24
Part IMirroring26
Exercise: Learning to Mirror26
Part IIValidating29
Exercise: Learning to Validate29
Part IIIEmpathizing31
Exercise: Learning to Show Empathy31
Part IVTaking Turns33
Exercise: Trading Places33
Session 3Learning How You Know35
Part IAre You a Separate or Connected Knower?37
Exercise: Are You a Separate or Connected Knower?37
Part IIGrowth Process for Separate Knowers41
Exercise: Develop Your Connected Knowing Skills41
Part IIIGrowth Process for Connected Knowers44
Exercise: Develop Your Separate Knowing Skills44
Session 4Practice Receiving and Giving48
Part IReceiving Sensory Impressions49
Exercise: Learning to Appreciate Your Senses49
Part IIReceiving Your Partner's Reality52
Exercise: Learning to Appreciate Your Partner52
Part IIIReceiving a Gift and Giving a Gift55
Exercise: Practice Asking for and Receiving a Gift, and Giving a Gift56
Session 5Positive Flooding58
Exercise: Learning Positive Flooding59
Exercise: Expanding Positive Flooding60
Session 6Your "Receiving Quotient" Assessment64
Exercise: Examining Your Receptivity64
Session 7Your "Giving Love" Assessment70
Exercise: Examining How Giving You Are70
Session 8Your Imago76
Part IInfluences From Childhood79
Exercise: What I Got from My Parents or Other Caretakers79
Part IICurrent Influences91
Exercise: The Beliefs My Partner Brought to Our Relationship91
Part IIIChoosing the Messages of the Future96
Exercise: Deciding How I Want to Give and Receive Now96
Session 9Barriers to Intimacy99
Exercise: Identifying Your Childhood Wound101
Exercise: Learning More About How Your Childhood Wound Affects Your Relationship103
Exercise: What to Do with Information About Your Childhood Wound111
Session 10Identifying Your Defenses115
Exercise: How Do You Try to Defend Yourself?117
Session 11Discovering Your Hidden Potential128
Part IRecovering Your Lost Self132
Exercise: Identifying Your Lost Self132
Part IIRecovering Your Lost Self in Relationship139
Exercise: What Messages Do I Send to My Partner?139
Session 12Becoming Whole Again145
Part IDiscovering Your Disowned and Denied Self149
Exercise: What Is There About You That You're Not Seeing?149
Part IIYour Personal Growth Plan154
Exercise: Integrating Your Disowned and Denied Self154
Appendix159
Acknowledgments193
About Imago Relationship Theory194
About the Authors195
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