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Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships

A Workshop on Healing the Wound of the Heart

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 While most of us have moments of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to sustain this where it matters most--in our intimate relationships. Why, if love is so great and powerful, are human relationships so challenging and difficult? If love is the source of happiness and joy, why is it so hard to open to it fully and let it govern our lives? In this book, John Welwood addresses these questions and shows us how to overcome the most fundamental obstacle that keeps us from experiencing love's full flowering in our lives.

Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships begins by showing how all our relational problems arise out of a universal, core wounding around love that affects not only our personal relationships but the quality of life in our world as a whole. This wounding shows up as a pervasive mood of unlove--a deep sense that we are not intrinsically lovable just as we are. And this shuts down our capacity to trust, so that even though we may hunger for love, we have difficulty opening to it and letting it circulate freely through us.

This book takes the reader on a powerful journey of healing and transformation that involves learning to embrace our humanness and appreciate the imperfections of our relationships as trail-markers along the path to great love. It sets forth a process for releasing deep-seated grievances we hold against others for not loving us better and against ourselves for not being better loved. And it shows how our longing to be loved can magnetize the great love that will free us from looking to others to find ourselves.

Written with penetrating realism and a fresh, lyrical style that honors the subtlety and richness of our relationship to love itself, this revolutionary book offers profound and practical guidance for healing our lives as well as our embattled world. Love, Dating & Attraction Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships
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Thought I had done much self work in the last few years, but again this book shows a whole new range of beliefs and blockages I want to work through and it also gives tools on how to do so, thank you for this book

some great tools on how to find absolute love

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Appreciate Welwood acknowledging the real absolute love of the transpersonal, and how we also interact with relative love in our relationships and how our relationships can show us where we are wounded. Lots of depth and insightful.

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A refreshing perspective in his work and life practice that resonates and gave more life to mines- just what I was looking for and needed at this time in my life, relationship & counselling practice.

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