Loving Choices

Editorial Reviews

"In Loving Choices Bruce Fisher and Nina Hart show us that love for others begins within ourselves. They delicately guide us through the process of releasing limiting behaviors and embracing inner strength and wisdom so we can have healthy relationships."

--Salle Merrill Redfield, author of Creating a Life of Joy



"A book for those who want to understand the connections between our individual past and potential future. Loving Choices serves to heal."

--James Redfield, author of The Celestine Prophecy, The Secret of Shambhala

Customer Reviews

Bruce Fisher, Ed.D. and Nina Hart

Bruce Fisher, Ed.D. (1931-1998), an internationally renowned divorce therapist and author, taught relationships and divorce recovery seminars for over 25 years as founder and director of the Family Relations Learning Center in Boulder, Colorado. Bruce's book, Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends, has sold over 750,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada, and has been translated into nine languages.

Nina Hart, is a Ph.D. candidate in psychology and a divorce and relationships educator in Boulder, Colorado. She and Bruce co-led educational seminars on relationships for more than 15 years. Her advice on relationship communication is frequently sought by professionals in the human services.

Preface: Is This Book for You?

Introduction
Your Loving Choices Challenge

SECTION ONE:
Your Relationship with Yourself

1 - An Overview of the Loving Choices Process
Changing Challenges into Loving Choices

2 - Feelings
A Feeling Is Neither Right nor Wrong, It Just Is

3 - The Family Inside You
Getting to Know Your Critics, Adaptive-Survivor Parts, Inner Children and Wise Nurturer

SECTION TWO:
Communicating with Yourself and Others

4 - The Self-Encounter
Learning to Communicate with Yourself

5 - The Repetitive Self-Encounter
Going Emotionally Deeper into Yourself

6 - Conversation with Your Internal Family
Assisting You with Inner Peace

7- The Healing Encounter
Using the Self-Encounter to Communicate with Others

SECTION THREE:
Your Relationship with Others

8 - Family of Origin
Creating Peace with Your Parents and Your Childhood

9 - Seeking Your Identity
Growing from Shell to Rebel to Love with Help from Your Internal Family

10 - Your Inner Children
It's Never Too Late to Have a Happy Childhood

11 - Power Struggles
What Am I Going Through?

12 - Boundaries and Ownership
What Is You and What Is Not You

13 - Relationships Are Your Teachers
Working Together as a Vehicle for Growth

14 - Loving Choices
Changing Challenges into Loving Choices

Appendix A: Breathing and Centering Exercise

Appendix B: Bibliography

Index