Resources
Articles
2. Inter-Partner Touch in Couple Counselling
3. Attachment: Family Ties That Bind
4. Couple Therapy with Severely Conflicted Partners
5. Towards a Better Appreciation of the “Intimacy” Gap between Men and Women
7. Attachment in Family Therapy
Poems
Recommended Reading
Books Recommended by Martin Rovers:
- The Flight from Intimacy: Healing Your Relationship of Counter-Dependency
- Breaking Free of the Co-Dependency Trap
- Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends
- How Can I Forgive You? The Courage to Forgive, the Freedom Not To
- The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook
- Everyday Opportunities for Extraordinary Parenting
Books Recommended by Marlene and Bob Neufeld:
Comment by Marlene and Bob:
Lasting Love: The 5 Secrets of Growing a Vital, Conscious Relationship
“This easily read book highlights 5 secrets of lasting love and includes practices to follow this path. It highlights new ways of being committed, being with your emotions, letting go of blame, being creative in your way of living, and expanding your level of appreciation. Using examples from their own experience, which they have kitchen-tested, Drs. Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks offer a comprehensive program to generate passion and harmony in your primary relationships. We have used the activities in the book, to increase the love we express to each other.”
Comment by Marlene and Bob:
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
“This book explores the limit that most of us have on how much love, success and good time we can experience before we unconsciously create situations to bring us down to a more familiar and mediocre place in our lives. Gay Hendricks gives specific suggestions how to expand your capacity to feel positive and achieve your true potential. He uses real life examples to identify the hidden fears that are at the root of this Upper Limit Problem and help us break through these limitations. Learning about this concept, opened up a new way of being together for us. Finally, we understood those fights we used to have which seemed to come out of nowhere, just when we thought things were going well. Using the principles outlined in this book, we have greatly expanded our own limit of how much positive we are able to experience.”
Comment by Marlene and Bob:
Hold Me Tight: 7 Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
“In this book which is accessible to the lay reader, Dr. Johnson, the developer of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, leads readers through a simple program for creating stronger, more secure relationships. The book outlines seven healing conversations which give you insight into the defining moments in your relationship and guide you in reshaping these moments to create a secure and lasting bond. We learned about our own built-in needs for attachment and the cycle of withdraw-pursue that we had engaged in, which helped us break the pattern and find ways to be closer.”
Mental Health Links
Canadian Psychological Association Fact Sheets
Distress Centre Ottawa & Region
Ottawa Mental Health Crisis Line
Sexual Assault Support Centre of Ottawa
Rideauwood Addiction and Family Services
Canadian Mental Health Association