Giving The Love That Heals : A Guide for Parents
By Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen Hunt, M.A.

Available in:
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Audio Cassette

Book Description

Harville Hendrix has illuminated the paths to healthy, loving relationships in his New York Times bestsellers Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find. Now, with his coauthor and wife, Helen Hunt, he brings us to a new understanding of the most profound love of all -- by helping parents nurture their own development as they encourage emotional wholeness in their children.

This groundbreaking book offers a unique opportunity for personal transformation: by resolving issues that originated in our own childhood, we can achieve a conscious, and thus healthier, relationship with our children, regardless of their age. Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt help us explore:

The Imago -- the fantasy partner that our unconscious mind constructs from those we loved as a child, a that has guided our search for a life partner

Maximizer and Minimizer parents -- the defensive styles that internally shape what we say and how interact with our children

A Parenting Process that helps to end the "cycle of wounding" -- the handing-down of wounding we received as children -- as we raise our own children

Safety, Support, and Structure -- how to give children what they really need from us

Modeling Adulthood -- using our healed sense of self as a model for our children.

With other practical, insightful approaches that can powerfully shape the parent-child bond, Giving the Love that Heals gives us the keys to helping our children to become healthy, responsible, and caring people. --

Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Harville Hendrix completes his trilogy of relationship books with this timely volume about keeping the ties of family strong. The authors use their understanding of unconscious desires and needs to help parents encourage emotional wholeness in their children--and nurture their own development.

Synopsis

The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Keeping the Love You Find" and "Getting the Love You Want" completes his trilogy with this timely audiobook about how to keep the ties of the family strong through communication and sharing. With "Giving the Love That Heals", parents will learn how to give their children the love they need--rather than what they might think they need--and learn how to become the best possible parents.

Synopsis

Bestselling author Harville Hendrix and his wife, Helen Hunt, use their understanding of unconscious desires and needs to help parents encourage emotional wholeness in their children--and nurture their own development. --

From the Publisher, Simon & Schuster

"One of the leading therapeutic voices of the 1990's" (Deborah Mason, New Choices) Harville Hendrix has illuminated the paths to healthy, loving relationships in his New York Times bestsellers Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find. Now, with his coauthor and wife, Helen Hunt, he at last brings us to a new understanding of the most profound love of all -- by helping parents nurture their own development as they encourage emotional wholeness in their children.