Audiobook (abridged)3 hours
Giving the Love That Heals: A Guide for Parents
Written by Harville Hendrix
Narrated by Harville Hendrix
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Harville Hendrix has illuminated the paths to healthy, loving relationships in his New York Times bestsellers Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find. Now, he and his coauthor and wife, Helen Hunt, bring us to a new understanding of the most profound love of all -- by helping parents nurture their own development as they encourage emotional wholeness in their children.
In Giving The Love That Heals, Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt help us explore:
Maximizer and Minimizer parents -- the defensive styles that internally shape what we say and how we interact with our children.
Safety, Support, and Structure -- how to give children what they really need from us.
Modeling Adulthood -- recovering our innate wholeness to provide a model of adulthood for our children that will preserve their innate wholeness.
In this profound, groundbreaking audiobook, Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt lead us through an extraordinary process of growth as we help our children to become healthy, responsible, and caring people.
In Giving The Love That Heals, Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt help us explore:
Maximizer and Minimizer parents -- the defensive styles that internally shape what we say and how we interact with our children.
Safety, Support, and Structure -- how to give children what they really need from us.
Modeling Adulthood -- recovering our innate wholeness to provide a model of adulthood for our children that will preserve their innate wholeness.
In this profound, groundbreaking audiobook, Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt lead us through an extraordinary process of growth as we help our children to become healthy, responsible, and caring people.
Author
Harville Hendrix
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., a clinical pastoral counselor and co-creator of Imago Relationship Therapy, has more than thirty-five years' experience as an educator, public lecturer, and couples' therapist.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I found out about this book from a few different directions, but in both cases because Harville is a distant member of two of my social networks.
This book is about what the authors call Conscious Parenting. By the name, it's hard to argue that such a thing could be anything but good.
It's a short but dense book. I listened to the audio edition, but I'll need to go back and take notes on the paper copy.
There's definitely some overlap with other development models, such as Bill Plotkin's Eight Stages of Ecosoulcentric Maturation. This shows that there's likely some validity to the model.
Hendrix/Hunt's basic premise is that difficulties in our relationships with our children indicate places where our parents weren't harmoniously involved with our lives at the corresponding place in our development. They see struggle as an opportunity for growth. The book definitely has spiritual and religious overtones, which, really, probably is a good thing when talking about parenting, as parenting should come from a values-oriented place, not just a functional or aesthetic perspective.
I have yet to experiment with these methods, but I look forward to trying some of them out. I'm also interested in exploring Hendrix/Hunt's models for partnership, as that's their main thing.
I give the book a three stars just because I feel like it's too short. It's full of examples, which I love. But I'd be interested in hearing how the methods were developed, and more time fleshing out the theories.