num_pages: 248
description: Relationships are part of life...Growing Yourself Up looks at all of the relationships we may experience in our life time. From being a single young adult to marriage to having children to divorces to midlife crisis and old age.To be human is to be in relationships. We cant survive without them but at the same time its in our relationships that we so easily come unravelled. There are certain relationships that seem to just do us in. Either we feel like we lose ourselves or we feel burnt out from unsuccessful efforts to make things right for another. In our relationships we can experience the very best of ourselves and the very worst.Most psychological approaches to building resilience focus on the individual  the individual mind emotions and experiences. The message of Growing Yourself Up however is that you cant separate understanding the individual from understanding relationships; they go hand in hand. All of lifes relationships are integral to increasing self-awareness and growing maturity  and its not necessarily the comfortable relationships that promote personal growth.Drawing from Bowen family systems theory this book takes you on a journey through each stage of life to see the predictable patterns of relationships and to show how to use this knowledge to make purposeful adjustments in yourself. The result though certainly not a quick fix is a sturdier self sturdier relationships and a refreshing new way of viewing lifes challenges and opportunities.
language: English
title: Growing Yourself Up: How to Bring Your Best to All of Life's Relationships
publisher: Exisle Publishing