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Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves

by C. Terry Warner

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Life can be sweet. Our relationships with friends, spouses, colleagues, and family members can be wonderfully rewarding. They can also bring heartache, frustration, anxiety, and anger. We all know the difference between times when we feel open, generous, and at ease with people versus times when we are guarded, defensive, and on edge. Why do we get trapped in negative emotions when it's clear that life is so much fuller and richer when we are free of them? Bonds That Make Us Free is a ground-breaking book that suggests the remedy for our troubling emotions by addressing their root causes. You'll learn how, in ways we scarcely suspect, we are responsible for feelings like anger, envy, and insecurity that we have blamed on others. (How many times have you said, "You're making me mad!") Because the key is seeing truthfully, the book itself is therapeutic. As you read and identify with the many true stories of people who have seen a transformation in their lives, you will find yourself reflecting with fresh honesty upon your relationships. This will bond you to others in love and respect and lift you out of the negative thoughts and feelings that have held you captive. You will feel your heart changing even as you read.

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"Ours is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
-T.S. Eliot

Read it. ( )
  OutOfTheBestBooks | Sep 24, 2021 |
An excellent analysis of how life works and the importance of personal responsibility. ( )
  MarcHutchison | Jul 11, 2021 |
Problems (in marriage) are the interaction between two different viewpoints. So often we feel that the other person is the problem, and that they need to change to fix it. We tend to ignore what we might be doing that causes the problem.

"This is what I mean by 'feeling stuck': experiencing other people or circumstances as having more power over our own happiness than we do." (Page 11)

I've got lots of highlights in this book. Looking it over, it's about time to reread it. ( )
  bread2u | Jul 1, 2020 |
Life-changing! Astonishingly profound.
  ExLibrisThePetersons | Sep 17, 2010 |
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Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML:

Life can be sweet. Our relationships with friends, spouses, colleagues, and family members can be wonderfully rewarding. They can also bring heartache, frustration, anxiety, and anger. We all know the difference between times when we feel open, generous, and at ease with people versus times when we are guarded, defensive, and on edge. Why do we get trapped in negative emotions when it's clear that life is so much fuller and richer when we are free of them? Bonds That Make Us Free is a ground-breaking book that suggests the remedy for our troubling emotions by addressing their root causes. You'll learn how, in ways we scarcely suspect, we are responsible for feelings like anger, envy, and insecurity that we have blamed on others. (How many times have you said, "You're making me mad!") Because the key is seeing truthfully, the book itself is therapeutic. As you read and identify with the many true stories of people who have seen a transformation in their lives, you will find yourself reflecting with fresh honesty upon your relationships. This will bond you to others in love and respect and lift you out of the negative thoughts and feelings that have held you captive. You will feel your heart changing even as you read.

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