No More Empty Relationships
a
Personal Workbook and Home Study Program
by Andrea
Reynolds
E-Book,
$39.00
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A Personal E-Handbook for Single Adults Who Want to Break
the Pattern of Going-Nowhere Relationships and Find
Partners Who Meet Their Emotional Needs.
Specific
questions help you evaluate your availability as a partner,
identify your specific relationship needs, and evaluate the
potential of each new relationship you begin. You'll be
able to dismiss empty relationships as you attract healthy,
fulfilling ones.
About
the Author
Andrea Reynolds is an
author, broadcaster, public speaker and consultant.
For years, Andrea was locked in a pattern of choosing
emotionally unavailable partners. After many years of
intensive personal healing through counseling, group
therapy, support groups, biblio-therapy, and research as a
journalist, she now chooses to be with people who treat her
well and who meet her emotional needs. Now psychologists,
psychiatrists, and psychotherapists recommend her seminars
and handbooks to their patients and clients. She lectures
through hospital education programs, conferences, adult
education programs, universities and high schools; often
speaking to groups of men and women who have come out of
empty, addictive, or abusive relationships, and who have
lacked healthy self-esteem.
Andrea has studied at seven universities(including Kent
State University and Oxford University) in three countries
(USA, Canada and England) taking courses in Marriage and
Family Relations, family studies, education, and
communications. She began teaching classes on relationships
in junior and senior high schools in Canada in 1975, and
eventually taught advanced programs for adults.
She has appeared as a returning guest expert on
Dini Petty,
Shirley, four shows on
The Life Network, and many radio talk
shows in the US and Canada (CFRB, CBC, Q107, CHUM-FM, CHFI,
CFNY). She has hosted her own weekend radio call-in show
(WFLP 1530 AM) on relationships, introducing topics on
rejection, affairs, date rape, safe sex, and
physical/emotional abuse in relationships. She has also
trained as a crisis hotline volunteer and has successfully
handled suicide interventions.
As a practical philosopher and romantic realist, her
philosophy about relationships and romance is
entrepreneurial:
"If you truly want to find happiness with a loving partner
it is wise to invest as much energy and creativity in each
important relationship... including the one you have with
yourself... as you do in your business or career."
Contents
Part
1 Getting yourself ready
• Ice-breaker: Introducing
yourself to others
• Recognizing your expectations about relationships
• Increasing your confidence levels and self-esteem within
relationships
• Acknowledging your Personal Bill of Rights
• Identifying your relationship goals
• Changing attitudes to those that work better for you
• Listing the factors that attract kind, loving people to
each other
• Determining your readiness for a relationship
• Determining your availability for a relationship
• Recognizing fears about relationships and commitment
• Recognizing ways you may be sabotaging opportunities for
love
• Seeing through your masks and defense mechanisms
• Confronting and working through your fears
• Acknowledging who may have influenced your choice of
partners
• Recognizing how you may have chosen partners in the past
• Recognizing role patterns in relationships
Part
2 Choosing potential partners
• Recognizing what kind of
person you are looking for
• Paying attention to compatibility factors, traits, and
preferences
• Establishing realistic criteria for choosing partners
• Deciding what you need to feel loved & happy in a
relationship
• Identifying your psychological needs in a relationship
• Identifying a good or promising relationship
• Interviewing potential partners for availability and
compatibility
• Identifying clues that someone is not ready for a
relationship
• Learning more about potential partners
• Recognizing undesirable partners and relationships
• Recognizing signs of a potential abuser and investigating
further
• Ending empty, abusive, or "going-nowhere" relationships
• Handling rejection, letting go, healing, and moving on
Part
3 Finding potential partners
• Meeting potential loving
partners and friends (an 8-week action plan)
• Getting out: 100 Places to meet potential partners and
friends
• Showing your approachability and availability
• Making the first contact with others
• Opening lines that may (or may not) work for you
• Meeting people in classes, lectures, and seminars
• Writing + answering companion ads that bring a good
response
• Identifying the dating agenda
• Finding potential partners: a summary of strategies
• If all else fails: unorthodox ways of meeting potential
partners
Part
4 Developing a loving relationship
• Making a
positive impact on the first date
• Extending a promising relationship beyond the first date
• Maintaining a healthy perspective during the dating
process
• Putting your life in balance
• Developing friendship, trust and respect before giving
your heart
• Creating a history of shared experiences together
• Deciding if this is a good relationship
• Igniting and maintaining passion between friends
• Understanding the requirements for, and levels of,
commitment
• Recognizing the signs of commitment readiness
Part
5 Resources
• Appendix A:
Move-to-Action Sheet
• Appendix B: Leisure Activities Checklist
• Appendix C: Character Descriptions and Feelings
• Appendix D: Personal Assets List
• Appendix E: Do-It-Yourself Matchmaker Questions
• Appendix F: Your homework assignments
• Appendix G: Reading list
• About the Author, Advice Hotline, Lectures & Seminars
• Reader Response
Receive the e-workbook from Andrea's two-day
seminar:
$39.00
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No Surprises: 365 Critical Questions You Need to Ask Each Other Before You Marry, 32 page digital booklet; 2 for $15.95; 32 page PRINT booklet, 2 for $6.00.
No Surprises: 20 Questions About Love and Romance You Need to Ask Each Other Before You Marry, 3 page Article reprint