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A companion workbook to the critically acclaimed relationship book
Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved
In 2004, Harville Hendrix and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, authored Receiving Love, a critically acclaimed guide to cultivating a loving, long-lasting relationship that Publishers Weekly called "intelligent and insightful . . . wise and sophisticated." Now, in the Receiving Love Workbook, Hendrix and Hunt have constructed a companion to that groundbreaking book in which they outline a simple, practical plan that will help you to apply the advice and exercises in Receiving Love to your own relationship.
Receiving Love showed that while many men and women know how to give love, many more undermine their relationships by never having learned how to accept it. The Receiving Love Workbook will help you and your partner to explore the effect that this type of self-rejection has had in your individual lives and in your relationship as a couple. It contains a unique twelve-week course designed to help you work through the exercises in Receiving Love. It provides the same step-by-step instructions and examples that couples who participate in a couples' workshop or work with an Imago Relationship Therapist would experience.
For those who are ready to take specific steps to surmount the self-rejection and heal its causes, the Receiving Love Workbook will help you to make the changes that will establish an easy, natural pattern of giving and receiving love and that will create the relationship of your dreams.
| How to Use the Receiving Love Workbook | 1 | |
| Session 1 | The Gift Diary | 16 |
| Part I | The Receiving Inventory | 18 |
| Exercise: Construct Your Receiving Inventory | 18 | |
| Part II | Daily Gift Record | 20 |
| Exercise: Keep a Daily Gift Record | 20 | |
| Part III | Dream Gift List | 22 |
| Exercise: Keep a Dream Gift List for Your Partner | 22 | |
| Session 2 | The Imago Dialogue | 24 |
| Part I | Mirroring | 26 |
| Exercise: Learning to Mirror | 26 | |
| Part II | Validating | 29 |
| Exercise: Learning to Validate | 29 | |
| Part III | Empathizing | 31 |
| Exercise: Learning to Show Empathy | 31 | |
| Part IV | Taking Turns | 33 |
| Exercise: Trading Places | 33 | |
| Session 3 | Learning How You Know | 35 |
| Part I | Are You a Separate or Connected Knower? | 37 |
| Exercise: Are You a Separate or Connected Knower? | 37 | |
| Part II | Growth Process for Separate Knowers | 41 |
| Exercise: Develop Your Connected Knowing Skills | 41 | |
| Part III | Growth Process for Connected Knowers | 44 |
| Exercise: Develop Your Separate Knowing Skills | 44 | |
| Session 4 | Practice Receiving and Giving | 48 |
| Part I | Receiving Sensory Impressions | 49 |
| Exercise: Learning to Appreciate Your Senses | 49 | |
| Part II | Receiving Your Partner's Reality | 52 |
| Exercise: Learning to Appreciate Your Partner | 52 | |
| Part III | Receiving a Gift and Giving a Gift | 55 |
| Exercise: Practice Asking for and Receiving a Gift, and Giving a Gift | 56 | |
| Session 5 | Positive Flooding | 58 |
| Exercise: Learning Positive Flooding | 59 | |
| Exercise: Expanding Positive Flooding | 60 | |
| Session 6 | Your "Receiving Quotient" Assessment | 64 |
| Exercise: Examining Your Receptivity | 64 | |
| Session 7 | Your "Giving Love" Assessment | 70 |
| Exercise: Examining How Giving You Are | 70 | |
| Session 8 | Your Imago | 76 |
| Part I | Influences From Childhood | 79 |
| Exercise: What I Got from My Parents or Other Caretakers | 79 | |
| Part II | Current Influences | 91 |
| Exercise: The Beliefs My Partner Brought to Our Relationship | 91 | |
| Part III | Choosing the Messages of the Future | 96 |
| Exercise: Deciding How I Want to Give and Receive Now | 96 | |
| Session 9 | Barriers to Intimacy | 99 |
| Exercise: Identifying Your Childhood Wound | 101 | |
| Exercise: Learning More About How Your Childhood Wound Affects Your Relationship | 103 | |
| Exercise: What to Do with Information About Your Childhood Wound | 111 | |
| Session 10 | Identifying Your Defenses | 115 |
| Exercise: How Do You Try to Defend Yourself? | 117 | |
| Session 11 | Discovering Your Hidden Potential | 128 |
| Part I | Recovering Your Lost Self | 132 |
| Exercise: Identifying Your Lost Self | 132 | |
| Part II | Recovering Your Lost Self in Relationship | 139 |
| Exercise: What Messages Do I Send to My Partner? | 139 | |
| Session 12 | Becoming Whole Again | 145 |
| Part I | Discovering Your Disowned and Denied Self | 149 |
| Exercise: What Is There About You That You're Not Seeing? | 149 | |
| Part II | Your Personal Growth Plan | 154 |
| Exercise: Integrating Your Disowned and Denied Self | 154 | |
| Appendix | 159 | |
| Acknowledgments | 193 | |
| About Imago Relationship Theory | 194 | |
| About the Authors | 195 |
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Posted January 2, 2012
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Overview
A companion workbook to the critically acclaimed relationship book
Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved
In 2004, Harville Hendrix and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, authored Receiving Love, a critically acclaimed guide to cultivating a loving, long-lasting relationship that Publishers Weekly called "intelligent and insightful . . . wise and sophisticated." Now, in the Receiving Love Workbook, Hendrix and Hunt have constructed a companion to that groundbreaking book in which they outline a simple, practical ...