While most of us have occasions of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to sustain this where it matters most–in our intimate relationships. Why, if like is so great and effective, are human associations so challenging and hard? If love may be the source of happiness and joy, why is it so hard to available to it fully and let it govern our lives? With this reserve, John Welwood addresses these questions and displays us how to overcome one of the most fundamental obstacle that retains us from encountering like’ about Ideal Love, Imperfect Relationships: A Workshop on Healing the Wound from the Heart s complete flowering inside our lives.

Perfect Like, Imperfect Relationships starts by teaching how all our relational complications arise out of the universal, core wounding around love that affects not merely our personal associations but the standard of living in our world all together. This wounding shows up as a pervasive disposition of unlove–a deep sense that we are not intrinsically lovable just as we are. And this shuts down our capability to trust, in order that even though we may hunger for love, we have difficulty opening to it and letting it circulate freely through us.

This book takes the reader on a robust journey of healing and transformation which involves learning to embrace our humanness and appreciate the imperfections of our relationships as trail-markers along the path to great love. It sets forth an activity for releasing deep-seated grievances we keep against others for not caring us better and against ourselves for not really being better loved. And it shows how our longing to be adored can magnetize the great love that will free us from looking to others to find ourselves.

Created with penetrating realism and a fresh, lyrical design that honors the subtlety and richness of our relationship to love itself, this revolutionary book offers deep and useful guidance for therapeutic our lives as well as our embattled world.