The Mindful Path to Intimacy: Cultivating a Deeper Connection with Your Partner
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Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 230
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy - Catalogue No : 98005
- ISBN 13 : 9781462547654
- ISBN 10 : 1462547656
Table of Contents
Part I - Preparing for the Journey
Introduction
1. Paying Mindful Attention: The Most Basic Form of Love
2. Turning Toward Vulnerability: Strength in Openheartedness
Part II - Walking the Intimate Path
3. Being and Seeking a Safe Harbor: The Attachment Teeter-Totter
4. Acting Intentionally: Everything You Do Matters
5. Listening Deeply: May I Only Seek to Understand
6. Waking Up to Interconnectedness: The Illusion of Separateness
7. Loving Your Partner Skillfully: May You Know That I Adore You
8. The Red Thread: Sex and the Path of Physical Intimacy
Part III - Overcoming Obstacles on the Path
9. Burning Intimacy Bridges: Practicing with Intense Emotions
10. Awakening to Relationship Patterns: The Practice of Co-Creation
11. Encountering the Arising of Conflict: Only by Love Alone
12. Repairing Ruptures: To Mend What Has Been Broken
13. Facing Impermanence: Intimacy with Aging, Illness, and Death
14. Walking the Intimate Path: The Whole World Is Medicine
Index