HARDBACK BOOK CODES OF LOVE - HOW TO RETHINK YOUR FAMILY AND REMAKE YOUR LIFE
WRITTEN by MARK BRYAN
ISBN# 0-671-03662-9
PUBLISHED BY: POCKET BOOKS 1999
291 PAGES
DUST JACKET - EXCELLENT CONDITION
BOOK - EXCELLENT CONDITION
I WOULD RATE THIS HARDBACK BOOK QUALITY AS A 10 (EXCELLENT).
ABOUT THE BOOK:
MARK BRYAN WAS A MEMBER OF OPRAH WINFREY'S 1999 "CHANGE YOUR LIFE " TEAM AND A REGULAR ON HER SHOW.
WHAT IF YOU WERE LOVED MORE THAN YOU KNOW?
As a counselor, Bryan reconnects parents and grown children despite the pain, bitterness, and anger when the work begins. In helping families find buried closeness, Bryan has learned many lessons about what it takes to open people's hearts. He shares these lessons here - as well as his own family story, which he weaves throughout the book, a story that poignantly illustrates how reconnection is more than possible, even after years of separation.
Bryan's key insight is that families often communicate love in code, using words, actions, and behaviors that not only may obscure love but sometimes get interpreted as love's opposite. Messages of affection, caring, and concern may be sent in ways that other family members read as negative judgments, efforts to control and undermine. Gaps in communication cause the messages to get lost or distorted in transit. These gaps result from generational and life differences, contrasting emotional and conversational styles, "interference" from a legacy of past conflicts, and other factors. If you can decode your family's messages of love and affection, from the past and from today, you can open the door to richer family ties.
CODES OF LOVE is a guidebook that offers the basic tools for creating better relationships with parents, siblings, grown sons and daughters, spouses, and even old friends - all the loved ones in your life. Bryan explores why family affection so often gets buried or forgotten, then shows us how to recover warmth and rebuild family bonds. He gives readers the necessary tools to crack the codes of love in their own families and discover intimate connections they may not have known existed.
