Hold Me Tight

Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

By: Sue Johnson

Narrated by: Helen Keeley

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Strengthen and deepen your relationships with revelatory practical exercises, seven profound conversations, and sage advice from “the best couple’s therapist in the world” (John Gottman, PhD, bestselling author)

Are you looking to enrich a healthy relationship, revitalize a tired one, or rescue one gone awry? We all want a lifetime of love, support, and companionship. But sometimes we need a little help.

Enter Dr. Sue Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and “the most original contributor to couple’s therapy to come along in the last thirty years,” according to Dr. William J. Doherty, PhD. In Hold Me Tight, Dr. Johnson shares her groundbreaking and remarkably successful program for creating stronger, more secure relationships.

The message of Hold Me Tight is simple: Forget about learning how to argue better, analyzing your early childhood, making grand romantic gestures, or experimenting with new sexual positions. Instead, get to the emotional underpinnings of your relationship by recognizing that you are emotionally attached to and dependent on your partner in much the same way that a child is on a parent for nurturing, soothing, and protection. Dr. Johnson teaches that the way to enhance or save a relationship is to be open, attuned, and responsive to each other and to reestablish emotional connection. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship and uses them as touch points for seven healing conversations, including:

• Recognizing the Demon Dialogues
• Finding the Raw Spots
• Revisiting a Rocky Moment
• Forgiving Injuries
• Keeping Your Love Alive

These conversations give you insight into the defining moments in your relationship and guide you in reshaping these moments to create a secure and lasting bond.

Through stories from Dr. Johnson’s practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, you will learn how to nurture, protect, and grow your relationship, ensuring a lifetime of love.

Extremely helpful for affair recovery

Highly recommend to any couple going through the difficulty of affair recovery. The 7 conversations have helped bring understanding and healing. This is a painful experience for anyone but this book helped make the process a little less stressful and opened many opportunities for healthy conversations.

Powerful

Most powerful relationship audiobook I’ve listened to date. Hits at the hear of ones soul...mine.

I’ve recommended to friend and friend purchased.

The ideas in this book could save humanity

Not only did this save my relationship but i really believe if everyone read this book, it could actually change the way we as a species view one another. Incredibly eye opening and I very much suggest this for anyone and everyone. Lead with love <3
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Very Helpful

If you are in any relationship that is struggling, you need to read or listen to this book. Very helpful at identifying how trauma and fears can take over to create a cycle of abuse in relationships. Really points out how difficult communication can become in a relationship with weakened emotional connections. Content is delivered in a simple yet helpful format anyone can understand. There are lots of conflict examples that are shared which really helps to make it feel relatable. I would recommend this book for everyone. It really explains how to get to the core of conflicts to create a stronger connection through understanding and compassion. As opposed to staying stuck in a cycle of blaming and misunderstanding. I loved it and will likely experience it several times and recommend to all my friends and family.

Great guidance

This helped me pinpoint how I have come to handle my fears, feelings, and upset with my husband and how instead of creating change in him, it makes him distance more. If he were to read this books as well, I think it would change the trajectory of many of our arguments. Many of the stories in this book made me feel validated. The women often expressed the same things I have felt.