Joy Of Imperfect Love: The Art Of Creating Healthy, Securely

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Item#: 9781641709057
Author Manly, Carla Marie
 


Embracing the messiness of real love, The Joy of Imperfect Loveexplores attachment issues and personal growth, uncovering the secrets to lasting, joy-filled connections.

Stuck in unhealthy relationship dynamics? Yearning to find (or be) that perfect someone? Can you accept someone while also wanting them to grow? The key to healthy relationships is accepting that real love is messy, imperfect, and a work in progress!

Clinical psychologist Dr. Carla Marie Manly’s The Joy of Imperfect Love guides readers on a transformative journey of compassionate, healthy love. With research-backed insights, captivating case studies, and empowering exercises, readers explore how attachment issues and unresolved personal issues negatively impact both self-love and the quality of our relationships. Dr. Manly offers sound solutions for creating the awareness and healthy habits that promote lasting love. Readers will breathe a sigh of deep relief as they discover the doable, real-life secrets to creating joy-filled relationships and genuine, imperfect love.


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Synopsis: Stuck in unhealthy relationship dynamics? Yearning to find (or be) that perfect someone? Can you accept someone while also wanting them to grow? The key to healthy relationships is accepting that real love is messy, imperfect, and a work in progress!

With the publication of "The Joy of Imperfect Love: The Art of Creating Healthy, Securely Attached Relationships", clinical psychologist Dr. Carla Marie Manly guides readers on a transformative journey of compassionate, healthy love.

With research-backed insights, captivating case studies, and empowering exercises, readers explore how attachment issues and unresolved personal issues negatively impact both self-love and the quality of our relationships. Dr. Manly offers sound solutions for creating the awareness and healthy habits that promote lasting love.

Her readers will breathe a sigh of deep relief as they discover the doable, real-life secrets to creating joy-filled relationships and genuine, imperfect love.

Critique: Thoroughly 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation, "The Joy of Imperfect Love: The Art of Creating Healthy, Securely Attached Relationships" by Dr. Carla Marie Manly is a life changing, life enriching, life expanding read from start to finish. Authentic, inspired and inspiring, "The Joy of Imperfect Love" is critically important and of immense interest to readers concerned with love, romance, and marriage. Simply stated, "The Joy of Imperfect Love" is a specifically recommended pick for personal, professional, community, and college/university library Self-Help/Self-Improvement collections and supplemental Popular Psychology curriculum studies lists. It should be noted that "The Joy of Imperfect Love" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $12.63).

Editorial Note: Dr. Carla Marie Manly (www.drcarlamanly.com) is a clinical psychologist, author, and speaker who makes her home in Sonoma County, California. With a refreshing mindfulness-based approach, Dr. Manly focuses on supporting others in their journeys of personal transformation and the creation of deeply fulfilling relationships.
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