ACT with Love: Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - Softcover

Harris, Russ

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1648481639 ISBN 13: 9781648481635

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, 2023

Synopsis

Build more compassionate, accepting, and loving relationships with acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).

Let’s face it: Picture-perfect storybook romances don’t exist in real life. Couples fight. Feelings of love wax and wane through the years. And the stress and tedium of everyday life and work can often drive a wedge between even the most devoted couples. So, how can you reignite passion and intimacy in your relationship, cultivate greater understanding and compassion between yourself and your partner, and bring the joy back to your love life?

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. Also included is new information on attachment theory, powerful mindfulness and self-compassion techniques, and assertiveness and boundary-setting skills.

ACT with Love will show you how to:

• Let go of conflict, open up, and live fully in the present
• Use mindfulness to increase intimacy, connection, and understanding
• Resolve painful conflicts and reconcile long-standing differences
• Act on your values to build a rich and meaningful relationship

 

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.

About this title

About the Author

Russ Harris is an internationally acclaimed acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer; and author of the best-selling ACT-based self-help book, The Happiness Trap, which has sold more than one million copies and been published in thirty languages. He is widely renowned for his ability to teach ACT in a way that is simple, clear, and fun—yet extremely practical.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1648481639
• ISBN 13: 9781648481635
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240