Starting with Me: Knowing Myself Before Finding a Partner (3rd Ed.) - Softcover

Alexander, Susanne M.; Wu, Johanna Merritt; Lambshead, Jeremy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1940062330 ISBN 13: 9781940062334

Verlag: Marriage Transformation LLC, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

You Can Be a Success Factor in a Relationship and Marriage! By the time you're in a relationship or marriage, it's too late to prepare yourself for it. This book empowers you to get yourself ready for marriage before you start a relationship. Instead of seeking out your ideal partner through trial and error and hoping for good luck, you can take charge of your life and your relationship goals today! Whatever your age or life circumstances, Starting with Me helps you lay a solid foundation for your future and prepare yourself for a healthy, happy, long-lasting relationship or marriage. It offers uncommon wisdom from the Bahá'í teachings, time-tested guidance from relationship and character experts, insights from everyday people on this journey, and transformative questions and exercises. Starting with Me will empower you to: Live a full and happy life that includes service to the greater good; Learn from past relationships, and move forward with knowledge and confidence; Know your own character and be able to assess that of a potential partner; Conquer your fears and doubts, and avoid harmful behavior choices; Form realistic expectations and clarify what you are looking for in a partner; Form friendships that could later lead to discovering an excellent relationship partner While you'll start with yourself, the book provides plenty of insights and ideas for involving others on your journey, such as friends, family members, and community groups. Whether you're excited, nervous, doubtful, or optimistic, take a deep breath and smile because help and hope have arrived!

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Susanne M. Alexander is a relationship/marriage educator and coach. She is president of Marriage Transformation LLC, which publishes books and offers online courses through her Transformation Learning Center. She is certified as a Marriage Facilitator to offer couple's assessments through Prepare-Enrich®, and she is certified as a character specialist for individuals with the Character Foundations Assessment(TM). She has completed Level 1 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Susanne facilitates relationship preparation, marriage preparation, and marriage strengthening with people of all ages globally based on the Marriage Transformation books and materials and provides coaching to individuals and couples. The creative purpose of the company is to dynamically empower individuals and couples to engage in skillful, character-based communications and actions that contribute to excellent relationships and happy, unified marriages and families that serve others. Susanne is a member of the National Alliance for Relationship and Marriage Education. Susanne is the author or coauthor of over 20 books. She has appeared on television, radio, and podcasts, has been quoted as an expert in many online and print publications, and in these books: Where to Seat Aunt Edna? And 500 Other Great Wedding Tips and Renewing Your Wedding Vows. Susanne is a journalist and writer and has a BA in Communications from Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio, USA. Her articles have been published in BahaiBlog.net, BahaiTeachings.org, Upjourney.com, Yourtango.com, Simplemarriage.net, Match.com, Marriage Partnership, Strengthening Marriage, Bahá'í Parent, Newsweek, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, Crain's Cleveland Business, Writer's Digest, and Massage Magazine among others. Susanne has been a Bahá'í most of her life, serves as a tutor of study circles, and has served on several Local Spiritual Assemblies. For eight years, she led a global faculty team that pioneered Bahá'í-based online relationship and marriage education through the Wilmette Institute, an agency of the United States National Spiritual Assembly. Susanne was married at age 19, had a daughter at age 21, and divorced at age 40 after a very difficult marriage. She married a second time, happily, and founded the Marriage Transformation company with her husband Craig Farnsworth. He died of brain cancer shortly before their tenth wedding anniversary. She married a third time, happily, and lives with her husband Phil Donihe in Tennessee in the United States. She has had five adult stepchildren between the latter two marriages, and she has several grandchildren.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Marriage Transformation LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1940062330
• ISBN 13: 9781940062334
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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