Safe Haven Marriage: Building a Relationship You Want to Come Home To
About this audiobook
Are you emotionally connected with your spouse? Can you trust him or her with your heart? Creating a safe haven for each other in a marriage can enable a couple to weather any storm.
Having a marriage safe haven is an accomplishment that is certainly easier said than done. Psychologists Arch Hart, Ph.D, and Sharon Hart Morris, Ph.D., present a detailed blueprint for establishing a marital safe haven so that couples can count on each other and avoid criticizing, blaming and shutting out their partners during tough times.
In Safe Haven Marriage, Drs. Hart and May help you discover:
- valuable ways of communication that promote understanding and emotional closeness
- practical tools to help you recognize and break your cycle of hurtful arguing and fighting
- realistic ways to emotionally re-connect no matter how distant or hurt you feel
- four attachment styles that affect how you bond in your relationship
- how to heal and find a safe haven even after betrayals, broken trust, and other hurts
- how to share your heart with your spouse and create a haven of emotional safety withinyour marriage
Safe Haven Marriage is based on a new therapeutic approach that involves establishing a feeling of "safety," out of which commitment and the other necessary elements of a lasting and fulfilling relationship can grow.
Reflection questions and appendixes are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.
About the author
Dr. Hart is a professional psychologist, a prolific writer and well-known speaker. He covers different topics including the treatment of panic attacks and depression as well as stress.
Sharon Morris May, Ph.D. is the originator of the highly acclaimed Haven of Safety Marriage Relationship Intensives and Conferences at the Hart Institute in Pasadena, California. With a doctorate in marriage and family therapy from Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, Dr. Sharon is an internationally known expert in emotionally focused therapy. Author of Safe Haven Marriage, as well as numerous articles and chapters in books on relationships, she is the contributing editor for Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal. Dr. Sharon and her husband, Mike, live in Southern California surrounded by their four sons.
