Love Again Creating Relationships Without Blame Imagine a relationship without anger… What if… when you came to those hard, stuck places of disagreement, upset, hurt, anger, shock and betrayal… You didn’t have to… argue, fight, blame, convince, separate or divorce… …because you had the internal awareness and tools to resolve those difficult conversations without fighting or blaming… ever!

Love Again- Creating Relationships Without Blame untangles the issues that occur in every relationship, and provides concrete tools and insights to attain true emotional intimacy.  Since these issues are unavoidable, there is no “problem,” so there can be no “fault.”  Because we are all innocent, there is no need for blame.   In the pain of our ignorance, we can mistake helplessness for hopelessness and so despair that there is any chance we can find the peace and love we long for.

Love Again demystifies relationships, whether they are with a spouse, parent, child or co-worker.  The concepts in this book lift us out of the world of frustration, anger, helplessness, hurt and blame, giving us the tools to create a new type of relationship and a new, more peaceful and more empowered self

Love Again goes beyond the typical relationship books that give simple and obvious techniques and suggestions that might make logical sense, but just do not work.  They tell us to make sure we have fun together (and how do you have fun together if you’re feeling angry or desperately hurt?), to “mirror” what the other person is saying (when we feel that we know what they are saying, but they are totally missing our point!), to say the right words (without helping us understand why the wrong words come out in the first place!)   These techniques make us feel even more despairing about our relationships because something keeps us from being able to do them effectively.

Love Again addresses the powerful feelings that overwhelm us and render logical behavior impossible, and offers practical alternatives that are based in self-awareness.  With compassion and knowledge, we can free ourselves from the assumptions and issues that unconsciously run our lives.   We do not have to settle for adaptation to life, but can grow beyond it, to personal and relationship transformation. 

We need to change our consciousness (which is an internal process) not just change our behavior.  True and lasting change necessitates that we not just know something, but that we become it. Love Again - Creating Relationships Without Blame  will show you how.

Personal Strength ~ Spiritual Joy: Bridging Heaven and Earth integrates psychology with spirituality. As we free ourselves from old habits and patterns that we may not even realize we have, we will come to peace with the forces that are bigger than we are, whether we call them the Mystery... Nature... Science… the Infinite... Karma... Fate... or God. Everyone struggles with depression, anxiety and reactions that we just don’t understand, for they are not logical. How can we identify and overcome the emotional blocks that are so deeply rooted in us?

In this book, we explore the causes of our behaviors and beliefs through discussion, exercises and examples, primarily from our own lives.  We explore the core human issues which all of us must learn to accept in order to find personal freedom and to open to the possibility of greater faith.   We identify the specific conditions and responsibilities that humans need to resolve in order to create an active relationship with God.  We offer concrete solutions and steps to deal with the challenging emotions and struggles of being human that we cannot think our way out of or just “get over.”

The existing books of spiritual guidance and psychological self-help offer solutions that do not address the nonlogical blocks which keep us from becoming the people we all want to be.  Psychological struggle and spiritual growth are also treated separately. The inspirational messages of these authors may leave us feeling like failures, for neither logic nor will power can teach us how to free ourselves from self-defeating patterns.  And, although we may long to believe with full and yielding faith, many of us cannot.

In Personal Strength ~ Spiritual Joy: Bridging Heaven and Earth we:

· help the reader become free from judgment, once and for all!

· model - not instruct about – our approach

·  give guidance for deep transformation, not formulas for superficial behavioral
   change or training

· share our journey of self-discovery, exploding the myth of the "Perfect Person”

· address the nonlogical blocks that prevent change

· do not rely on logic or will-power for change

· explore the intersection between growth and faith.

· make the process of growth natural and fun, so our book is funny and entertaining.

In Personal Strength ~ Spiritual Joy, we show you  how to triumph over the challenges we all face in life.  We replace the belief system of our culture (which results in our being stuck in grief, pessimism, powerlessness, fear and judgment of ourselves or others) with a compassionate acceptance of what it means to be human.