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Those who in a relationship with an avoidant partner can, justifiably, take a few steps back and question the entire relationship.I recommend that you listen to this book if your partner has a shy, detached, elusive personality or seems impervious to love and emotions, struggles to think as a couple and to build a sense of "us", obstructs, or deviates from any attempt to communicate your hurt feelings. 

Do you find it difficult to maintain a successful romantic relationship? Do you see the same behaviour patterns in yourself emerging in your relationships, time and time again? Are you constantly worried that everything will end in heartbreak? The patterns and beliefs we develop as children, although often deeply rooted in our psyche, can be unlearned and replaced with positive beliefs and approaches that allow you to take a more constructive path through life.

Do you find it difficult to maintain a successful romantic relationship? Do you see the same behavior patterns emerge in your relationships from time to time? Are you constantly worried that everything will end in a heartbreak? Is it possible to predict in advance the probability of a relationship's success or failure? Whether we are aware of it or not, our childhood experiences play a huge role in producing the type of people we become.

Have you been deeply hurt by your mother? Did the woman, who should have loved you, nourished you, and protected you inflict traumas that still affect your life today? Are you struggling every day to repair the damage that she caused? If you were raised by a BPD parent, your childhood would more than likely have been an unstable and painful experience. Recognising that these problems are not a choice, but the consequences of your mother's disorder, is a necessary first step towards healing your emotional wounds.

Being in a relationship with a person who has a borderline personality means living a love-hate relationship that’s obsessive, complicated, and unstable. Unfortunately, these kinds of relationships can be particularly difficult to escape from. However long the relationship has lasted, a relationship with a person who has BPD typically creates a destabilizing impact on the psyche of those who live with it and leaves emotional wounds that are very difficult to heal.

Anger, fear, sadness and shame are notoriously difficult emotions to manage as nature has forged their purpose purely to protect us. Sometimes trauma can interfere with your ability to regulate your emotions, amplifying them and generating devastating effects for yourself and for others...Dialectical Behavior Therapy, has rapidly become one of the most popular and most effective treatments for the range of mental health conditions that are rooted in out-of-control emotions.

Do your child's outbursts of anger, power struggles, blackmail, and rebellion prevent your family from living a simple peaceful day? Does it constantly disturb your day, thinking that at any moment you might get a call from your child's school? Have your various strategies to deal with this failed? Listening to this book will not magically solve all your child's problems, but if you listen and re-listen, and apply the techniques, then you will be well on the way to rebuilding a healthy relationship.

It is natural for humans to suffer. However, suffering is not just about physical or psychological pain. People also suffer from emotional pain, doubts in self-worth, uncomfortable feelings, and painful memories. Because we dread or worry about suffering, we do everything we can to avoid such feelings. We constantly seek to minimize our suffering. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) focuses on the problem of human suffering, but it also deals with much deeper matters. It addresses the understanding of human suffering as an important factor in realizing a good life.

If your life has been overshadowed by an addiction, trauma, or toxic shame, you are probably fighting with an invisible enemy; an enemy that is particularly difficult to vanquish: codependency. Experts say that it is a pattern of behavior in which a person finds themselves dependent on someone else's approval for their self-esteem and identity. Commit to breaking this cycle and regain control of your life.

Anger, fear, sadness, and shame are notoriously difficult emotions to manage because nature has forged their purpose purely to protect us. Sometimes, trauma can interfere with your ability to regulate your emotions, amplifying them and generating devastating effects for you and others. It is very difficult to ignore these emotions. Sometimes, they get in the way, impede your progress, and make an intimate relationship or career advancement impossible.

Seamos conscientes de ello o no, nuestras experiencias en la niñez juegan un papel muy importante en la producción del tipo de personas en las que nos convertimos. Las relaciones que experimentamos de niños, con nuestros padres u otros cuidadores primarios, tienen un profundo efecto en la forma en que reaccionamos a las situaciones a lo largo de nuestra vida; y en la forma en que interactuamos con las personas que nos rodean.