Unf*ck Your Life and Relationships

How Lessons from My Life Can Help You Build Healthy Relationships from the Inside Out

De: Anita Astley

Narrado por: Anita Astley

Unf*ck Your Life and Relationships combines Anita’s personal story and the culmination of 25 years of clinical experience with individuals, couples, and families. She demonstrates that building healthy relationships starts from the inside out and calls for a “back to basics” of love and life that have become lost in a culture driven by electronic communication and social media attachment.

Experiencing conflict in relationships is an unavoidable fact of life. When our relationships are messed up, our lives feel messed up. Likewise, our hearts and minds hurt—the two are intricately linked. Drawing on over 25 years of clinical experience with individuals, couples, and families, psychotherapist Anita Astley will walk you through practical steps to unf*ck yourself from the inside out in order to establish healthy relationships. Her approach takes you back to the basics of love and life that have become lost in a culture consumed by electronic communication and social media attachment. Anita will help guide you through your journey of transformation by identifying various psychological dynamics that serve to do more harm than good to you and your relationships. In addition, she will provide tools to help you hone your communication skills through active listening and effective speaking as a means of working through conflict to arrive at solutions. These practices have helped countless patients and have proven to be effective for Anita personally.

In this book, she shares her childhood journey from India to Germany (and then to Canada), reuniting with her father. However, his expectation for Anita to follow a culturally traditional path and consent to an arranged marriage destroyed her confidence and self-worth and left deep emotional scars. As she pursued higher education and individual psychotherapy, Anita found her voice through mentors who enabled her to break free, find her path to healing and inner strength, and eventually unlock the skills needed to help others. In these chapters, Anita Astley now acts as your mentor and guide so you can do the same and learn to maintain inner emotional balance and form healthy, fulfilling relationships with those you love.

©2022 Anita Astley (P)2022 Anita Astley

Fantastic New Perspective - Real World Success

Unf*ck your life! The author takes us through her own amazing journey from the streets of India to McGill University but also demonstrates the transformative power of therapy by drawing us in to the clinical sessions that helped change her own life. With this also comes great practical tips and exercises expected from the self-help and education genre. A great read!

Not the self-help book you’re looking for

I had great hopes for this book, but I didn’t manage to make it past Chapter One. While there are points made in the book, it’s so wrapped up in the author’s life that it feels more like an autobiography. This book could have been a quarter the length, made its points clearly and directly, and been a five star book.

Also, while this something of a peeve, I’ve found most authors don’t really have the skills necessary to narrate their own works. This book would have benefited from professional narration.