Making Relationships Work: How to Love Others and Yourself (Overcoming Common Problems) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

"a compact little book, written in a compassionate way, which makes the techniques more easily accessible...The strength of this book is that it does what it sets out to do - it is difficult to identify any limitations.'-- Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal

To love others, you must love yourself first. Lack of self-worth is often at the root of unsatisfactory relationships. This book aims to help people improve their relationships by improving their self-esteem. The author offers a series of practical exercises to help this process. Topics covered include: the importance of self-esteem to healthy relationships, where things go wrong in relationships, assessing relationships, looking at patterns, trying to be someone else, compatibility, making changes in ourselves, making relationships work, friendship, and 'sub-personalities'.

Do you find that relationships often don’t last? Are you losing hope of meeting that special person? Do your friendships need a new lease of life?
Following Alison Waines’ first book for Sheldon, The Self-Esteem Journal, this book looks at how to love others – but how we also need to love ourselves. Alison, a qualified counsellor, offers simple tools and practical exercises to help us give ourselves the respect and acceptance we deserve before turning our attention outward to others.
This book shows you how to:

* break patterns of behaviour in relationships

* understand the vital role of self-esteem

* learn how to have healthy relationships

* develop communication and compatibility

* sustain a lasting partnership

* evaluate and build intimate friendships
If you want to have successful relationships, develop richer friendships - and the freedom to be yourself, this book is for you.

Alison Waines is a psychotherapist in private practice. She is the author of The Self-Esteem Journal, Sheldon.