Codes Of Love - How To Rethink Your Family And Remake Your Life

by Mark A. Bryan

Paper Book, 1999

Publication

PCKHC (1999), Edition: 1st, 291 pages

Description

"What if you were loved more than you know?" Mark Bryan's work is bringing families together. He was a member of Oprah Winfrey's 1999 "Change Your Life" team and a regular on her show, where he reunites parents and children. Now, counselor, educator, and cofounder of The Artist's Way Workshops, Mark Bryan offers a book that will help all of us get closer to our family members and achieve deeper intimacy by cracking the "Codes of Love" As a counselor, Bryan reconnects parents and grown children despite the pain, bitterness, and anger when the work begins. In helping families find buried closeness, Bryan has learned many lessons about what it takes to open people's hearts. He shares these lessons here -- as well as his own family story, which he weaves throughout the book, a story that poignantly illustrates how reconnection is more than possible, even after years of separation. Bryan's key insight is that families often communicate love in code, using words, actions, and behaviors that not only may obscure love but sometimes get interpreted as love's opposite. Messages of affection, caring, and concern may be sent in w… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member cmbohn
I didn't finish this one, but what I did read was helpful. I think this is most useful for people who haven't done any emotional work before and need to do it on their own, rather than with a therapist or a facilitator. But for me, I need to just move on.

ISBN

0671036629 / 9780671036621
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