Stay or Leave Six Steps to Resolving Your Relationship Indecision

by Stone, Beverley

• ISBN13: 9781780280257
• ISBN10: 1780280254
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-05
• Publisher: Watkins Publishing

Summary

So your indecision is final?!

Author Biography

Beverley Stone is a chartered psychologist and Harley Street relationship therapist, with over 25 years' international experience in helping clients achieve personal growth. She is th author of Confronting Company Politics and The Inner Warrior: Developing Courage for Personal and Organizational Change.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
You, Now
So your indecision is final?	p. 14
Why no change?	p. 21
Will either decision really end in catastrophe?	p. 30
Stop revving your engine with your foot on the brake	p. 38
Your New Perspective
Your new perspective	p. 44
The 64-Million-Dollar Questions: Acceptingresponsibility for your impasse	p. 46
The 64-Million-Dollar Questions: Acceptingthe downside of your decision	p. 55
The 64-Million-Dollar Questions: Satisfyingyour own needs and ambitions	p. 66
The 64-Million-Dollar Questions:Being authentic	p. 73
Let's take a breather	p. 81
The Six Life-Changing Hurdles
Hurdle 1: Be authentic - take the risk of being yourself (not what everyone else wants you to be)	p. 86
Hurdle 2: Accept anxiety as a positive, fundamental human experience (stop giving in to it)	p. 100
Hurdle 3: Make your one and only life a meaningful one (not one you'll end up regretting)	p. 114
Hurdle 4: Take responsibility for your situation (no blaming others)	p. 124
Hurdle 5: Be aware that you always have a choice (you're not as trapped as you think you are)	p. 131
Hurdle 6: Live by your own values and standards (not everyone else's)	p. 138
Your job is to be you	p. 150
Appendix: Develop an explicit contract	p. 168
References	p. 175
Publisher acknowledgments	p. 178
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