Unf*ck Your Life and Relationships combines Anita's personal story and the culmination of twenty-five years of clinical experience with individuals, couples, and families. She demonstrates that building healthy relationships starts from the inside out and calls for a "back to basics" of love and life that have become lost in a culture driven by electronic communication and social media attachment. Issues in relationships are an unavoidable fact of life. But when your relationships are messed up, your life feels messed up. Our hearts hurt, our minds hurt--the two intricately linked. Drawing on twenty-five years of clinical experience with individuals, couples, and families, psychologist Anita Astley will walk you through effective steps to heal this pain and establish healthy relationships. Her approach takes you back to the basics of love and life that have become lost in a culture driven by electronic communication and social media attachment. She will give you techniques to help you identify and heal wounds you hold inside, retrain your mind to break the cycle of negative emotional and behavioral patterns that damage relationships, provide tools to hone your communication skills through active listening and effective speaking, and more.
These practices have helped countless patients, and proven effective for Anita herself. As she teaches you, she shares her own journey. Immigrating from India to Canada as a child, her father hoped to build a better life. But his expectation for Anita was to follow a culturally traditional path. As she was raised to attain a good match in an arranged marriage, her confidence and self-worth was destroyed. Breaking free left deep emotional scars, but as she pursued her higher education, she found a mentor who helped her unlock not just the skills to help others, but her own healing and inner strength. In these pages, she now acts as your mentor so you can do the same, and learn to maintain healthy, fulfilling relationships with those you love.
