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| Author | : Dr. Anya |
| Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 151 |
| Release | : 2015-05-29 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1782799516 |
Love, sex, and relationship wisdom from the polyamory movement are offered in this practical guide to spiritual enlightenment. Contrary to popular belief, monogamy and celibacy are not the only two options for exploring a spiritual path. In Opening Love, Dr. Anya translates the lessons learned by the pioneers of the polyamory (many loves) movement for readers who actively pursue personal growth through spiritual practice. Drawing on both personal experience and philosophical reflection, this nonfiction guide explains how to cultivate intentional, creative, non-conventional relationships that center on principles of honesty and consent. Instead of committing solely to a single person, spiritual seekers can instead commit to pursuing openness and courage in all their interactions. As polyamorists understand: love, sex, and relationships are not scarce commodities, rather they are an abundant resource for healing and evolving one's consciousness. With eloquence and precision, Dr. Anya describes how to cultivate compersion (the opposite of jealousy), find an intentional community based on common core values, and build advanced emotional and communication skills. Meditation and reflection practices are offered throughout, to create an interactive, truly transformative learning experience.
| Author | : Michael Bryson |
| Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2017-07-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1783743514 |
This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore celebrates and reinvents the love the troubadour poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries called fin’amor: love as an end in itself, mutual and freely chosen even in the face of social, religious, or political retribution. Neither eros nor agape, neither exclusively of the body, nor solely of the spirit, this love is a middle path. Alongside this tradition has grown a critical movement that employs a 'hermeneutics of suspicion', in Paul Ricoeur’s phrase, to claim that passionate love poetry is not what it seems, and should be properly understood as worship of God, subordination to Empire, or an entanglement with the structures of language itself – in short, the very things it resists. The book engages with some of the seminal literature of the Western canon, including the Bible, the poetry of Ovid, and works by English authors such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, and with criticism that stretches from the earliest readings of the Song of Songs to contemporary academic literature. Lively and enjoyable in its style, it attempts to restore a sense of pleasure to the reading of poetry, and to puncture critical insistence that literature must be outwitted. It will be of value to professional, graduate, and advanced undergraduate scholars of literature, and to the educated general reader interested in treatments of love in poetry throughout history.
| Author | : Natasha Lunn |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2022-04-19 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0593296583 |
An investigation of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with Lisa Taddeo, Esther Perel, Emily Nagoski, Kate Bowler, Alain de Botton, Stephen Grosz, Roxane Gay and others Journalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no map for understanding love. While she was used to watching friends fall in and out of love, the older she got the more she had to acknowledge: her friends' relationship struggles could no longer be chalked up to youth, and the more she learned about her parents, grandparents, work colleagues, and mentors the clearer it became that age had not brought any of them any closer to understanding this elusive, transformative, consuming emotion. One night during the months she found this realization settling over her, she sat up in bed and jotted three words in a notebook: conversations on love. In that moment, Lunn understood that she didn't want advice about love, she wasn't looking for the answers, or evergreen wisdom but she craved candid, wide-ranging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the parts of love that often don't make it into our everyday discussions of marriage, sibling relationships, friendships, or mother/daughter bonds. Conversations on Love started as an experiment aimed at interviewing experts about what love meant to them, in all of it's messiness, and quickly blossomed into a newsletter that attracted thousands of subscribers and a prestigious range of interviewees. It turns out that Lunn wasn't the only person ready to talk more openly and expansively about love. Interweaving personal essays and revealing interviews with some of the most sough-after experts on love, journalist Natasha Lunn guides us through the paradoxical heart of three key questions about love--How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?--to deliver a book that is a solace, a beacon, a call to arms, a tool-kit. The real-life love stories in these pages will leave you hopeful and validated, while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships. Above all, Conversations on Love will remind you what love is: fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful, always worth fighting for.
| Author | : Kathy Labriola |
| Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2011-03-28 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0937609471 |
Beyond the basics of polyamory lies a complex web of negotiations, agreements, pitfalls and rewards. Kathy Labriola, a relationships counselor who has worked for many years with singles, couples and groups in polyamorous and open relationships, sets forth some of the realities of alternative lifestyles: dealing with some of the common relationship-disrupters, managing jealousy, choosing compatible partners, combining BDSM with polyamory, distinguishing between sex addiction and polyamory, and much more.
| Author | : Mary Burnett Brown |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 66 |
| Release | : 2020-10-06 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 9781735544601 |
Mary's heart-opening poetry is a key that opens your heart to deep spiritual wisdom. Through her poetry, you will find peace and happiness. Mary's muse for her heart-opening poetry is Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet
| Author | : David Richo |
| Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2011-07-26 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1590309243 |
The best-selling author of How to Be an Adult in Relationships explains how to build trust—the essential ingredient in successful relationships—in spite of fear or past betrayals Most relationship problems are essentially trust issues, explains psychotherapist David Richo. Whether it’s fear of commitment, insecurity, jealousy, or a tendency to be controlling, the real obstacle is a fundamental lack of trust—both in ourselves and in our partner. Daring to Trust explores the importance of trust throughout our emotional lives: how it develops in childhood and how it becomes an essential ingredient in healthy adult relationships. It offers key insights and practical exercises for exploring and addressing our trust issues in relationships. Topics include: • How we learn early in life to trust others (or not to trust them) • Why we fear trusting • Developing greater trust in ourselves as the basis for trusting others • How to know if someone is trustworthy • Naïve trust vs. healthy, adult trust • What to do when trust is broken Ultimately, Richo explains, we must develop trust in four directions: toward ourselves, toward others, toward life as it is, and toward a higher power or spiritual path. These four types of trust are not only the basis of healthy relationships, they are also the foundation of emotional well-being and freedom from fear.
| Author | : Scott Stabile |
| Publisher | : New World Library |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2017-08-21 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1608684946 |
“I look to Scott for wisdom and leadership and he has delivered both with Big Love. This book opened my heart and mind and I’m forever grateful.” — Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior What happens when you fully commit yourself to love? Endless good, insists Scott Stabile, who found that out by overcoming plenty of bad. His parents were murdered when he was fourteen. Nine years later, his brother died of a heroin overdose. Soon after that, Scott joined a cult that dominated his life for thirteen years before he summoned the courage to walk away. In Big Love, his insightful and refreshingly honest collection of personal essays, Scott relates these profound experiences as well as everyday struggles and triumphs in ways that are universally applicable, uplifting, and laugh-out-loud funny. Whether silencing shame, rebounding after failure, or moving forward despite fears, Scott shares hard-won insights that consistently return readers to love, both of themselves and others.
| Author | : Raymond Sturgis |
| Publisher | : Raymond Sturgis |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2012-02-01 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1450567428 |
Many people have a hard time with love because of past experiences and misinterpretation of love. There are some people that say they love a person just to have sex with them, or keep them from moving on. Love can be beautiful and long lasting if they center their heart and mind on the right path in which this book would help them to achieve. This book tear down past hurts, disappointments and low-esteem and rebuild them into believing that they are BEAUTIFUL, WORTHFUL, and WELL-DESERVING of LOVE. In this book, a person no longer would doubt the person in mirror, or let naysayer's or criticism destroys their self-worth. Dating is a jungle and knowing what to look for in a person and what and who to dodge, is imperative to falling in the right kind of love and esteeming your plans for marriage or a relationship. LET LOVE OPEN YOU OPEN is no quick fix, you have to first determine what you want, lust, sex or love, and then channel your attributes into understanding what you are looking is also what you must become. This book will lead the hardest broken down give up on love person into believing that love exist for them, and change relationships and marriages that are imperil toward breakup to long lasting vines of happiness that stretch to unlimited possibilities. No matter if your eyes, body and mind is closed to dating, love, relationships or friendship, this book will show you how to LET LOVE OPEN THEM UP.
| Author | : anonymous |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 94 |
| Release | : 2018-03-18 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1387676172 |
This book was made to show myself that I could do anything I put my mind to. It is full of my love, my sadness, my joy, my fear and so many more things. I made this book with a little bit of every piece of me and I just hope you enjoy it.
| Author | : eInitial Publication |
| Publisher | : eInitial Publication |
| Total Pages | : 17 |
| Release | : 2024-01-18 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : |
"The Open Road of Love" is a captivating love story that unfolds on the unpredictable roads of life. Avi, a free-spirited musician, and Aradhana, an ambitious career woman, meet by fate's design. Their journeys converge, transitioning from city lights to tranquil countryside nights. Avi, guided by the rhythm of his heart, embraces the symphony of spontaneity, while Aradhana's meticulously planned world finds adventure in unexpected places. Through the melody of Avi's guitar and the serendipity of chance encounters, their hearts harmonize. Music becomes their universal language, narrating unspoken emotions. They face challenges, distance, and dreams, but their love persists, evolving like a beautiful composition. The narrative beautifully weaves their contrasting yet complementary stories—urban vibrancy versus rural serenity. With each chapter, the book strikes chords of love, spontaneity, and the harmony of two souls dancing to life's unpredictable tune. Ultimately, their love story echoes the sentiment that sometimes, the most beautiful melodies are composed in the unplanned interludes of life.
