Creating Love: The Next Great Stage of Growth

By John Bradshaw

Book Overview

InCreating Love, John??Bradsgaw provides a new way to understand our most??crucial relationships: with parents and children, with??friends and co-workers, with ourselves, and with??God. He shows us how we have been??literally "entranced" by past??experiences of counterfeit love, how we can break these??destructive patterns, and how we can open ourselves to??the soul-building work of real??love. John Bradshaw has touched and changed millions of??lives through his nationally televised PBS series??and his best-selling books. His previous book,??Homecoming, introduced the concept??of the inner child to a vast new audience. Now he??defines the "next great stage of??growth"--how we can work to create healthy, loving??relationships in every part of our??lives. Written for everyone who has struggled with??painful relationships and is seeking hope and a new??direction,Creating Loveis a??life-changing book. From the Trade Paperback edition.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553075101
• ISBN13: 9780553075106
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 6.3" x 1.3"

Customer Reviews

Creating the love you want

I have not read all of this but what I have read is very helpful about understanding dynamics of why we continue to live our lives in the past, though we may not know it. He is coming from a place of exposing the shame element and people who come from or understand the 12 step programs will recognize his way of demystifying pain and shame. He is a gentle caring soul who really wants us to understand and reveal ourselves TO ourselves and then be able to move on.

THIS IS A MUCH NEEDED BOOK...

WHEN I READ THIS BOOK, I SAW MY FRIEND TIFFANY ALL OVER IT. SHE CREATES CONFRONTATIONS AND THEN WITHDRAWS. I THINK SHE NEEDS TO READ HIS OTHER BOOKS. I REALLY CARE FOR HER, SO I HOPE SHE DOESN'T TAKE IT PERSONAL THAT SHE CAN BE CRAZY AND STUBBORN AS AN OLD MULE. I THINK I READ A SENTENCE OR TWO ABOUT MYSELF ALSO.

A must for relationship building

This is a great way to reinforce all the great information contained in the book. Each tape is somewhat connected to the other but are devided into various aspects of relationships(work, marriage, children, etc.)that can be examined seperately as well. I've only listened to the series 4 or 5 hundred times! Bradshaw has provided a wonderful base for exploring basic human desires and needs without evangelical zeal but with basic conversational common sense.

Best yet

The style of this book surpasses anything that Mr. Bradshaw has written. In other words, although his other books are nice, his writing style is not fluent. He must have had help perhaps, but this one flows fluently. The quality of the material is earth shattering. Very few books have I read from cover to cover within a week and this one I did. This is something I can go over and over.