Act with Love: Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Professional)

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Publisher’s Note This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered . My aim in this book is to help you create the best relationship you possibly can one in which you treat each other with love, kindness, and consideration, make peace with your differences, appreciate what you each have to offer, handle your emotions more effectively, support each other to thrive and learn and grow, and make the most of the time you spend together.

Through a simple program based on the revolutionary new mindfulness-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), you can learn to handle painful thoughts and feelings more effectively and engage fully in the process of living and loving together. It’s not uncommon for people to spend huge chunks of their day, completely lost in their thoughts, endlessly debating all the pros and cons of staying in or leaving their relationship. However, I see that following these principles may create a risk of unlearning to trust your gut or even falling into denial (if something really dysfunctional is going on). You picked up many ideas from your friends, your family, your school, your workplace, your hobbies, the various groups you belonged to, the books you read , the movies you watched , the music you listened to, the conversa tions you had, and the way you saw people treat each other in the world around you.ACT with Love will show you how If you’re looking to increase feelings of intimacy, love, and connection with your partner, this book has everything you need to get started— together . We are going to face this situation someday or the other and it’s better that we understand/ be aware that not everyone is the same and not every relationship would work smoothly as we anticipate. Essendo un manuale di auto-aiuto di scuola statunitense, la spiegazione dei vari passaggi del lavoro è piuttosto lineare e ripetitiva.

This book took awhile for me to get through because I reread so many sections, and I think I will go through and read it again. Of course, you can never know this for certain, but you can make a reasonable prediction based on what has happened up to this point. As an adult, the attitude toward one’s partner often goes something like this: “I’m scared you’re going to neglect me, ignore my needs, let me down, or take me for granted. Russ puts this in really down to earth language with the utmost respect for the reader, in a super gentle yet straightforward manner.ACT نگاشته شده و به همین دلیل بهتر است قبل از مطالعه‌ی این کتاب یا با این رویکرد آشنا باشید و یا دو کتاب " از ذهن خود بیرون بیا و زندگی کن" اثر استیون هیز و همین طور " تله‌ی شادمانی" از راس هریس ،که از قضا نویسنده‌ی همین کتاب عمل عاشقانه هم هست، مطالعه کرده باشین. Your partner may not reveal his pain to you; he may just get angry, or storm out of the house, or quietly switch on the TV and start drinking, but deep inside he hurts just like you.

In this fully revised and updated edition of ACT with Love , therapist and world-renowned ACT expert Russ Harris shows how developing psychological flexibility—the ability to be in the present moment with openness, awareness, and focus, and to take effective action in line with one's values—can help you and your partner strengthen and deepen your relationship. There are suggestions for negotiating difficult situations, hurt feelings, recurring arguments, and more. As an adult, the attitude toward one’s partner is something like this: “ I’m worried you might not love me, or you might leave me, and I don’t know if I can rely on you.

like understanding the weather: no matter how much insight you have into its origins and how it operates, you can’t control it; you can only control the way that you respond to it. By the end of this book, you’ll have the necessary tools to effectively deal with all these problems and more. But dwelling on this dilemma repeatedly throughout the day, going over and over it in your head , is only likely to stress you out without helping you reach a clear decision. We all experiment with such methods early in life, and if we find some thing that works, we keep doing it.

This is a must-read for anyone that wants to have a caring, rich, and meaningful romantic relationship. Then when you fight, these fears will well up inside her; she may not even be aware of them because they very quickly get buried under blame or resentment.

I suppose step 1 is to defuse, but I'm so fused that it's hard to imagine that actually working because the thoughts are *true*. To learn new skills for constructively influencing your partner’s behavior, in ways that are healthy for you, your partner, and your relationship. Thus when we connect with someone, it’s as if something binds us together, unites us in some special way. Accostati, letteralmente, essi formano il bel principio dell' " agire con amore": il positivo suggerimento, al fine di coltivare il benessere psico-fisico di ciascuno all'interno della coppia, di smettere di cercare di dominare i propri mutevoli stati d'animo e di rifiutare le sensazioni dolorose e di concentrarsi invece per prendere il controllo delle proprie azioni, praticando accettazione e consapevolezza, verso di sé e verso il proprio partner.