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By Deseret Book Press Release
Finding the Secrets to Healing Our Relationships
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- From our relationships often flow our deepest joys,
but these relationships can sometimes turn bad and thus also bring us our
deepest sorrows. When that happens they seem almost impossible to heal, in
large part because we can't see how to rid ourselves of the negative
thoughts and feelings, like resentment and mistrust, that have grown within us.
In "Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves"
(Shadow Mountain, $19.95), C. Terry Warner throws surprising and welcome new
light on these troubled emotions. He spells out how we can abandon them
completely and in the process heal our relationships.
As the founder of the renowned Arbinger Institute, Dr. Warner has, along
with his colleagues, helped thousands of individuals and families, as well
as many organizations, to bring about deep changes in their lives and
rediscover the richness and productivity of caring relationships. "Bonds
That Make Us Free" is the completion of a manuscript that over the past two
decades has circulated nationwide in photocopy form, passed on from friend
to friend and thus becoming an underground "classic." Therapists and
counselors have adopted it as a crucial component in their work with
troubled people. Materials based upon the manuscript have been used to
transform organizations in education, business, and rehabilitation in many
parts of the world.
Dr. Warner begins by showing how and why we generate our entrapping feelings
and thoughts, and thus deceive ourselves about our responsibility to them.
Even our conscience becomes unreliable, and we cannot find our way out of
this emotional predicament. He then shows us the way out--how we can open
ourselves to the truth about the people we've been blaming and about
ourselves. This allows those feelings of negativity and cynicism to melt
away, because a simple understanding of ourselves honestly helps break the
self-deception.
"Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves" is
a groundbreaking tutorial for the human spirit, one that has served many
people as an alternative to therapy.
"The simple, clean truth about ourselves," Dr. Warner writes, "has more
therapeutic power than any psychological theory."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
C. Terry Warner holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a professor of
philosophy at Brigham Young University. He has been a visiting senior member
of Linacre College, Oxford University, and in 1979 founded The Arbinger
Institute, a widely respected group that devotes itself to helping
organizations, families, and individuals. He and his wife, Susan, are the
parents of ten children.
Source:
Finding the Secrets to Healing Our Relationships
Shadow Mountain Press Releases 9Oct01 US UT SLC A2
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