Conscious Uncoupling
The 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After
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Publisher Description
In 2014 a media storm erupted when Gwyneth Paltrow announced her separation from Chris Martin, describing it as a harmonious and mutual 'conscious uncoupling' and the term entered the world's vocabulary overnight. Coined and created by relationship expert Katherine Woodward Thomas, the expression 'conscious uncoupling' has become synonymous with a divorce where both partners accept that they each played a role in the breakup and, in particular, are looking to co-parent in a functional and healthy way in the future.
The Conscious Uncoupling 5 Step Process is designed to support separating couples through the thorny terrain of a breakup, helping them to consciously complete a relationship in ways that leave all involved whole, healthy and well, and optimistic about future relationships.
CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING offers a new paradigm for divorcing couples and is set to become a classic in the genre.
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Marriage and family therapist Thomas (Calling in "The One") sets out to empower recently separated couples with a program designed to bring "dignity, goodness, and honor" to the end of a relationship. After making suggestions for salvaging the relationship via counseling and communication, Thomas outlines the five steps of conscious uncoupling, which include "find emotional freedom," "reclaim your power and your life," "break the pattern," "becom a love alchemist," and "creat your happily-even-after-life." Thomas uses her own experiences as points of instruction, sharing her inability to let go of an old flame and the struggles she's faced in her own divorce. She also provides validating scholarship, citing studies that show the brain reacts to bad breakups in the same way as to the death of loved ones. The practical challenges of a relationship's end are outlined, including harmonious co-parenting and equitable financial divisions. Thomas proves herself compassionate and emotionally in-tune with the pain of love lost, and her guidance will likely usher many of those afflicted to a brighter, or at least less bitter, future.
