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How to Let Go of the Need for Approval

By Ilene Strauss Cohen — 2018

When we urgently aim to please other people, we’re seeking approval of self from outside sources. And whenever we reach for something in the outside world to give us what we should be giving ourselves, we set ourselves up for disappointment.

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The Asperger Couple’s Workbook: Practical Advice and Activities for Couples and Counsellors

Asperger Syndrome (AS) can affect some of the fundamental ingredients required to make relationships work, such as emotional empathy and communication. This workbook provides couples affected by AS with strategies that will benefit their relationship together, and their family as a whole.

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Maxine Aston
2025
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How Can I Get Through to You? Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women

Bestselling author and nationally renowned therapist Terrence Real unearths the causes of communication blocks between men and women in this groundbreaking work.

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Terrence Real
2002
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Married to Distraction: How to Restore Intimacy and Strengthen Your Partnership in an Age of Interruption

Are you more distant from your spouse than you’d like to be? Do you or your spouse waste time mindlessly viewing email or surfing the Web? Welcome to the club! Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic...

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Edward M. Hallowell, Sue George Hallowell, Melissa Orlov
2011
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.

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C. S. Lewis
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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C. S. Lewis
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What Is “Intimacy Avoidance”? (Glossary of Narcissistic Relationships)

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Ramani Durvasula
2020
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Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction

Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the adoption experience.

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Sharon Roszia, Allison Davis Maxon
2019
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After the Tears: Helping Adult Children of Alcoholics Heal Their Childhood Trauma

Adult children of alcoholics have learned how to “survive,” but often have difficulty “living” their lives. The trauma and grief of childhood losses affect every aspect of the life of an adult child of an alcoholic (ACoA).

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Jane Middelton-Moz, Lorie L. Dwinell
2010
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Kwik Brain Episode 108: Heal a Broken Heart with Dr. Shefali Tsabary

In this conversation, we delve into some of the biggest misconceptions surrounding relationships, why we need to invest in ourselves, and why romantic love is a delusion.

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Shefali Tsabary
2019
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The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways of Relationships

Somi generously applies the subtle knowledge from her West African culture to this one. Simply and beautifully, she reveals the role of spirit in every marriage, friendship, relationship, and community.

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Sobonfu Some
2000
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