M. J. Ryan reveals gratitude practices that create intimate relationships. Create the romantic relationship you desire by practicing gratitude!
Gratitude starves relationship anxiety! With this gratitude book learn how to have a happier relationship with your partner. Get the answers to some of your most pressing relationship questions and use this as a guide to your own personal growth.
Relationship goals made easy with gratitude. Enhance couple goals by making gratitude a constant part of your relationship. Take your time in creating relational happiness, and restoring your relationship without couples counseling.
Inside, you’ll find:
Gratitude practices to spark an intimate relationship
A gratitude book centered on becoming your own relationship goals
Practices to stabilize self-growth and starve relationship anxiety
If you liked The Four Laws of Love, Meditations on Self-Love, or The Naked Marriage, you’ll love Attitudes of Gratitude in Love.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781684810055
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication Date: 07-11-2023
Pages: 199
Product Dimensions: 6.50(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.50(d)
About the Author
Known internationally as an expert on change, M.J. Ryan works as an executive coach to senior executives and entrepreneurs around the world, helping them accelerate business success and personal fulfillment. She combines a practical approach gained as the CEO of a book publishing company with methodologies from neuroscience, positive psychology, and asset-focused learning to help clients and readers more easily meet their goals. Her client list includes Royal Dutch Shell, Microsoft, Time, the U.S. military, and Aon Hewitt. She's a partner with the Levo League career network and the lead venture coach at SheEO, an organization offering a new funding and support model for female entrepreneurs. She's the founder of Conari Press, creator of the New York Times bestselling Random Acts of Kindness series, and author of many books, including Habit Changers: 81 Game-Changing Mantras to Mindfully Realize Your Goals. Daphne Rose Kingma is a beloved psychotherapist and relationship guide. She is also the author of a dozen best-selling books about love and relationships that have sold more than a million copies and been translated into sixteen languages and has been a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. You can learn more about her work at www.daphnekingma.com. Daphne lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Read an Excerpt
Read an Excerpt
As I practice thankfulness and work with others, I’ve come to know how deeply true it is that gratitude can make any relationship more joyful and enriching. No matter how you feel right now about your partner, your outlook and therefore the situation itself will get better if you simply begin to notice what’s already wonderful about him or her. An attitude of gratitude will not solve all problems—no one thing could ever do that—but it can make all problems more manageable. That’s because gratefulness is a mood elevator; by flooding our bodies with endorphins, it gives us hope. Gratitude also opens our hearts and gets us out of bitterness or resentment, creating a sense of emotional generosity toward the one we love. And from that place of generosity, new possibilities emerge.
The process is so effective that often I find myself in awe. Love with all of its problems seems to be so complex, how could this be so easy? Could it be this uncomplicated? The only thing I can recommend is to experience it for yourself. This little book is a place to begin.
May you find within its pages thoughts and practices that will be stunningly simple for you to use to bring more joy and peace into your most intimate relationship. May your love grow exponentially as you practice, and may the ripples of that love reach out to touch all those around you.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword by Daphne Rose Kingma
1: The Key to Living Our Love
2: The Gifts of Relationship Gratitude
You’ll Feel Closer and More Loving
You’re More Likely to Stay Together
It’s Positively Contagious
You’ll Both Be Healthier
Conflicts Are Resolved More Easily
Resentment Melts Away
The More You’re Thankful, the More You Receive
You’ll Touch Love’s Mystery and Majesty
3: Myths that Hold Us Back
I Need to Protect Myself
Relationships Are Hard
It’s Dangerous to Be Too Happy
It’s Better to Be Right Than Close
You Should Be Just Like Me
If I Feel It, It’s True
Feelings Come before Behaviors
It Has to Be a Certain Way
4: Love's Attitudes of Gratitude
You Can Choose What to Pay Attention To
It’s Right to Notice What’s Right
Receptivity Is Key
It’s Not about Being a Doormat
Assume the Best
You’re Not Perfect Either
The Other Person’s Quirks Are Delightful
Love Is Truly a Gift
You Are a Great Gift Too
Awareness without Judgment Creates Change
Love Is the Cauldron in Which Our Souls Are Tempered