Summary
Renowned psychotherapist Dina Bachelor Evan brings 16 years of couples counseling and a 90% success rate to this warm and accessible guide to creating and maintaining long-term relationships for gay and lesbian couples. Craving connections and meaningful, loving relationships, gay men and lesbians often lack the tools to attain them. There are few role models, and most therapists are not versed in the specific and unique issues of gay and lesbian couples. These insights, combined with the belief that successful relationships follow a deeply spiritual path, lie at the core of Break Up or Break Through, which powerfully and clearly guides couples away from dysfunction, pathology, and the errors of emulating heterosexual relationships, and toward more fulfilling lives and loves. Dr. Evan's basic principles -- "Stay Present," "Be Honest," and "Act Out of Love, Not Fear" -- provide a strong foundation for healthy relationships and guide couples in creating profound changes in the quality of their lives. Here Dr. Evan outlines her principles through exercises, meditations, and personal inventories designed to heal, remove barriers to intimacy, and elevate gay and lesbian couples to a place of grace and strength. Book jacket. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
Publishers Weekly Review
Psychotherapist Dina Bachelor Evan claims that 98% of the couples who come to her for counseling stay together giving credence to the advice she offers in Break Up or Break Through: A Spiritual Guide to Richer Relationships. Written specifically for a gay and lesbian audience, its rules for good relationships invoke universal self-help themes such as respecting boundaries, overcoming personal limitations and creating intimacy. With its breathing exercises, "Spiritual Relationship Personal Inventory" tests and upbeat chakra-talk, it should appeal to New Age couples gay and straight. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From: Reed Elsevier Inc.
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Author Biography
Dina Bachelor Evan, Ph.D., MFCC, is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
Table of Contents
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Introduction |
ix |
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Part 1 Stay Present |
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Chapter 1 Who Are You? |
3 |
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Chapter 2 The Freedom in Staying Present |
53 |
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Chapter 3 The "B" Word: Boundaries |
105 |
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