Growing Yourself Up

How to bring your best to all of life’s relationships

Jenny Brown (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2017 | Second Edition
Exisle Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-925335-19-4 (ISBN)

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Better understand yourself by exploring relationship patterns to shape a sturdier self, improved relationships and a refreshing new outlook on life’s challenges with the 2nd edition of this bestselling book.

The 2nd edition of this bestselling book helps you understand yourself by understanding your relationships. Drawing on Bowen family systems theory, the book explores each life stage to see predictable relationship patterns and make purposeful self-adjustments. The result is improved relationships and a sturdier self.

To be human is to be in relationships. We can’t survive without them but it’s in relationships that we can so easily get unravelled. Some relationships just seem to do us in. Either we feel like we lose ourselves or feel burnt out from futile efforts to make things right for another. In our relationships we can experience the very best of ourselves and the very worst.

The message of Growing Yourself Up is that you can’t separate understanding the individual from understanding relationships. All of life’s relationships are integral to increasing self-awareness and maturity. And it’s not necessarily the comfortable relationships that promote personal growth. In this 2nd edition of the bestselling book, Jenny examines how to help others without fostering dependency, and how to determine what kind of help you or others want from therapists. This is in response to the many lay and professional people who have found this book valuable personally and want to know how to help others grow.

Drawing from Bowen family systems theory, the book takes you on a journey through each stage of life to see predictable patterns of relationships and to show how to use this knowledge to make purposeful adjustments in yourself; as well as lending a mature helping hand to others. The result is a sturdier self, sturdier relationships and a refreshing new way to view life’s challenges and opportunities.

Jenny Brown is the founder and executive director of the Family Systems Institute and the Family Systems Practice in Sydney, Australia, where she has a counselling practice and trains mental health professionals and organizations. Jenny has a Ph.D. in Social Science from the University of New South Wales. She has trained and earned academic awards at the University of Sydney and Columbia University, New York. Additionally, Jenny has completed many years of postgraduate education in systems approaches to counselling at Relationships Australia, Sydney; the Family Institute of Westchester, New York; and the Tavistock and Portman in London. Jenny lives in Sydney with her husband (and cocker spaniel) and enjoys the richness of her important relationships, in particular as a wife, mother to adult children and grandmother.

Introduction

Who's willing to work at growing up?

Part 1: Understanding the relationship foundations of adult maturity

1. Becoming a self in our relationships

2. Real maturity or pretend maturity

3. Family ties that bind

Part 2: Maturity for the first half of adult life

4. Leaving home and growing up

5. The single young adult

6. How marriage can grow people

7. Sex for grown-ups

8. Grown-up parenting

Part 3: Being a grown-up beyond family

9. Off to work we go

10. Developing mature beliefs

Part 4: Nurturing maturity in the face of set backs

11. Separation and divorce

12. Symptoms and setbacks

Part 5: Maturity enhancement in the second half of life

13. Midlife

14. Ageing well

15. Old age and facing death

Part 6: Broadening the focus

16. The grown-up helper

17. Society and self

Epilogue

Appendix 1: Summary questions for reflection

Appendix 2: Mature connection and separateness

Appendix 3: What are guiding principles?

Appendix 4: Differentiation of self as a continuum

Appendix 5: How to construct your family diagram

Appendix 6: An overview of human development across the lifespan from a Bowen family systems perspective

Appendix 7: Some Biblical reflections on relationships

Notes

Bibliography and further reading

Acknowledgements

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2017
Verlagsort	Auckland
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Bilderbücher
ISBN-10	1-925335-19-4 / 1925335194
ISBN-13	978-1-925335-19-4 / 9781925335194
Zustand	Neuware