Codes of Love

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"W ise and practical, clearly, forcefully, and winningly written CODESOF LOVE is an eloquent plea for aiming to 'go home again.' —Leston Havens, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and author of Making Contact
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the feelings of closeness and love that you may ha ve forgottén over the years.
on emotionally charged family events and gain a deeper understanding of the truth.
| the way you deal with your family and
learn how to interpret their coded expressions of love.
with your family and within your current relationship-and become a stronger and more independent person yourself.
What ifyou were loved more than you know?
Mark Bryan's work is bringing families together. He was a member of Oprah Winfrey's 1999 "Change Your Life" team and a regular on her show, where he reunites parents and children. Now, counselor, educator, and cofounder of The Artist's Way Workshops, Mark Bryan offers a book that will help all of us get eloser to our family members... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"W ise and practical, clearly, forcefully, and winningly written CODESOF LOVE is an eloquent plea for aiming to 'go home again.' —Leston Havens, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and author of Making Contact
^e-fnimc
the feelings of closeness and love that you may ha ve forgottén over the years.
on emotionally charged family events and gain a deeper understanding of the truth.
| the way you deal with your family and
learn how to interpret their coded expressions of love.
with your family and within your current relationship-and become a stronger and more independent person yourself.
What ifyou were loved more than you know?
Mark Bryan's work is bringing families together. He was a member of Oprah Winfrey's 1999 "Change Your Life" team and a regular on her show, where he reunites parents and children. Now, counselor, educator, and cofounder of The Artist's Way Workshops, Mark Bryan offers a book that will help all of us get eloser to our family members and achieve deeper intimacy by cracking the
CODES ofLOVE
As a counselor, Bryan reconnects parents and grown children despite the pain, bitterness, and anger when the work begins. In helping families find buried closeness, Bryan has learned many lessons about what it takes to open people's hearts. He shares these lessons here—as well as his own family story, whieh he weaves throughout the book, a story that poignantly illustrates how reconnection is more than possible, even after years of separation.
Bryan's key insight is that families often communicate love in code, using words, actions, and behaviors that not only may obscure love but sometimes get interpreted as love's opposite. Messages of affection, caring, and concern may be sent in ways that other family members read as negatíve judgments, efforts to control and undermine. Gaps in communication cause the messages to get lost or distorted in transit. These gaps result from generational and life differences, contrasting emotional and conversational styles, "interference" from a legacy of past conflicts, and other factors. If you ean decode your family's messages of love and affection, from the past and from today, you ean open the door to richer family ties.
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CODES OF LOVE is a guidebook that offers the basic tools for creating better relationships with parents, siblings, grown sons and daughters, spouses, even old friends—all the loved ones in your life. Bryan explores why family affection so often gets buried or forgottén, then shows us how to recover warmth and rebuild family bonds. He gives readers the necessary tools to crack the codes of love in their own families and discover intimate connections thev may not have known existed.
What if you can love more than you kriow?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark Bryan is a Harvard-trained educator with a specialtv in humán development and psychology He is the cofounder, with Júlia Cameron, of the originál Artist's Way Workshops, a creativity course that has helped more than a millión people more effectively realize their potential. In addition to being the author of The Prodigal Father: Reuniting Fathers and Their Children (1997), he is lead author of The Artist's Way at Work (1998), a book that translates the theories and practices of The Artist's Way into corporate America. One of five "Change Your Life" experts who appeared regularlv in 1999 on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Bryan is currently director of the Father Project in Los Angeles, California, a priváté foundation that works to bridge the gap between fathers, mothers, and children of separated families. A member of A1 Gore's National Practitioners Network for Fathers and Families and a former member of the Massachusetts Governor's task force on father absence, Bryan has helped forge new family legislation in several states. Vissza