The Conscious Heart: Seven Soul-Choices That Create Your Relationship Destiny

This extraordinary book will help you learn how to use conflict to create greater understanding; Overcome the fears and defenses that block intimacy; Resolve struggles for control; Increase generosity and appreciation; Deepen passion, commitment, and aliveness; and release the creativity of each partner. Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks have mastered the art of genuine friendship, support and intimacy within their own marriage, and provide the guidance many people need today to learn how to get it right. Relationships take work. Nobody is perfect, and it is learning how to adjust to each person's imperfections while giving compassion and understanding at all times that are the pivotal keys to relationship success. If you want to learn how to be authentic and genuine, as well as how to communicate so a relationship can last in the inevitable face of human imperfections, then this is the book that will bring those answers to you. Outstanding and HIGHLY Recommended! Barbara Rose, Ph.D. author of Stop Being the String Along: A Relationship Guide to Being THE ONE and If God Was Like Man Editor, inspire! magazine

The authors walk their talk in their loving marriage.This book opened my eyes to some missing piecesof the puzzle and I have experienced profound shiftsin the relationship I have with my husband. The information in the Hendricks' book has made me moreaware of feelings and more connected to creativeways of transforming old patterns. My husband andI realized that we had UNconscious commitments tosuffering that undermined our desire to be close!We seem to have found a way to have a lot more fun!

I just finished this book, and have been enlightened and tremendously inspired. Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks reveal a large number of their own personal experiences, and this makes the book really believable and valuable. They are relationship experts, but they share about their difficult times as well as the good ones. Their book, Conscious Loving, is a good book to read first, but this book does stand on its own well! Read this book if you want to develop the deepest possible relationship with your partner!

I carry around a dog-eared copy of the Hendricks earlier book, Conscious Loving. I have used it, enjoyed it, and learned from it. But the one area it really didn't address for me is the area of commitment. The Conscious Heart brought the subject of commitment to the forefront for me. I have already loaned out the book so I can't quote exactly. The Hendricks suggest that the failure to make the deeper commitment results in a back door where the greater energy of the relationship escapes. This is the energy that would allow the relationship to grow to its higher level. This discussion of the issue brought it to me with more clarity than ever before.