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    Is Your Relationship Worth Saving?
    Is Your Relationship Worth Saving?
    Is Your Relationship Worth Saving?
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    Is Your Relationship Worth Saving?

    By Julia B. Colwell

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    We know when our relationships aren't working. Yet, some problems are fixable—while others are not. Which are you working on? To help anyone feeling unsure about how to handle the challenges in their own intimate partnership, clinical psychologist Dr. Julia B. Colwell offers Is Your Relationship Worth Saving? In this free ebook, Dr. Colwell reveals a path to intimacy that allows for ongoing passion, creativity, celebration, and "big, big love."

    Learn more about:


    • The telltale signs of a stuck relationship
    • Speaking the unarguable truth—a breakthrough method for shifting from conflict and suffering to connection and flow
    • The relationship between our emotions and our bodies
    • Taking full responsibility for the entirety of our experience
    • Reactive Brain versus Creative Brain

    Note: If you've found this ebook helpful, you might be interested in exploring The Relationship Skills Workbook: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to a Thriving Relationship, new from Julia B. Colwell. Here, Dr. Colwell offers key tools and skill-building exercises for creating a lasting and loving relationship.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSounds True
    Release dateSep 1, 2014
    ISBN9781622035328
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      Book preview

      Is Your Relationship Worth Saving? - Julia B. Colwell

      IS IT TOO LATE TO SAVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP?

      In more than twenty-five years of working with couples, I’ve seen hundreds of clients who ask themselves, each other, and me: Is this relationship worth saving? Is it worth the effort of trying to save it? And more looming questions: Will I ever have the relationship I really want? Should I just give up joyful intimacy as an impossible dream?

      When our relationship isn’t working, what are the signs that it’s really over? How do we decide if it’s worth saving? Are there vital signs that tell us it’s time to take a struggling relationship off of life support and declare it dead?

      By the time couples get to my office, sometimes it’s almost too late to do anything about their difficulties. For many people, seeing a professional is an indication of personal failure, something to be ashamed of. Even raising the idea of seeking help can become part of the power struggle that might be causing problems in the first place. By the time they sit down in my office, the couple has often been struggling for so long that they’ve used up all the goodwill they once felt toward each other. Making the effort to save their relationship feels like too much work.

      But notice an important word in the above paragraph: ". . . it’s almost too late." Over and over I’ve witnessed the miracles that can happen when couples learn and apply just a few simple yet profound skills. Moving out of struggle and back into connection can happen quickly—when people understand how.

      WHAT YOU CAN DO

      The fact that you’re even wondering whether your relationship is worth saving gives me some valuable information. It probably means you’re at a point in your life where you’ve noticed what loss really feels like. And it has most likely occurred to you that you—your patterns, your issues—are affecting

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