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The Way of Love
Rachel Glik
Morehouse Publishing
Feb/2025, 336 Pages, Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN: 9781640657687
A guidebook for couples seeking to strengthen and heal their relationship and ultimately create a deep and meaningful spiritual connection that can grow endlessly.
A happy relationship is not guaranteed even if you are fortunate enough to find the right person.
A Soulful Marriage will help couples build a relationship where love and happiness can be ever-growing. Not only for couples in distress, this inclusive book is for anyone that wants to strengthen their relationship with their partner. Dr. Rachel Glik has identified the core components of a lasting and fulfilling relationship and has created a framework to guide couples through a healing process.
The framework consists of four pillars, Responsibility, Growth, Priority, and Purpose, that couples move through building on the work of the previous pillar. The premise is that couples must work on themselves first and understand their own needs and values before they can work on their partnerships. Finally, the author believes that once the couples have achieved a strong relationship, to continue to develop and grow they must find purpose both in the marriage and in their community—thereby achieving the soul in a soulful marriage.
The book is filled with exercises, activities, and quizzes, and takes the reader through self-diagnosis exercises and activities that couples can work on together to strengthen their bond.
Rachel Glik is a licensed professional counselor with 30+ years as a couples and individual therapist in private practice. Since 2014, she has been a regular feature on the Fox 2 AM show in St. Louis as a relationship and mental health expert. The show’s executive producer summed up her role on the show this way, “Dr. Glik gets to the heart of what we deal with every day—our relationship with ourselves and each other.” Rachel is a featured author for Mind Body Green, an online magazine reaching over 10 million readers each month. Rachel has taught and created workshops for organizations such as: YPO, Onevillage, University of Missouri, The Kabbalah Centre International and Psychotherapy Saint Louis. She is a featured guest of podcasts such as Weekly Energy Boost and SageAdvice with Melissa. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
Preface: How the Journey Began
Introduction
PILLAR 1
Responsibility
1 The Practice of Self-Awareness
2 The Practice of Self-Love
3 The Practice of Self-Care
4 The Practice of Self-Development
PILLAR 2
Growth
5 Reframing Friction
6 The Problems
7 Solutions Begin with Soulful Conversations
8 The Way to Grow Closer through Your Conflicts
9 The Love Seat Listening Method and Co-Journaling Exercise
10 The Wounds that Need Healing
11 Repairing Wounds and Rebuilding Trust
12 Navigating Your Ongoing Differences
13 It’s All About Growth, Baby
PILLAR 3
Priority
14 Love Is a Verb: Soulmating
15 Order of Priority (Who Should Come First?)
16 Closing the Priority Gap: Eliminating Triangles
17 Cherish Is the Word
18 Understanding Your Partner’s Sweet Spot
19 Spiritual Lovemaking
PILLAR 4
Purpose
20 The Ultimate Fulfillment
21 What Purpose Looks Like Practically
Acknowledgments
Addendum A: Marriage Plan
Addendum B: Should I Stay, or Should I Go?
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