This thoughtful and heartfelt book develops two main themes: the healing power of a compassionate understanding towards ourselves and others, and the ways boundaries are set within and around various areas of our lives.
It examines how we live these boundaries, how they impact us, and what it takes to live these with deeper satisfaction. This book also addresses shame and rage; the impact of trauma; the power of parental messages, spoken and unspoken; and transgenerational burdens. A theoretical chapter summarizes the author's integrative, phenomenological approach: it brings the insights of a body-focused trauma therapy and a systemic lens to an overarching existential perspective. Numerous vignettes, case studies, and client-therapist dialogues illustrate reflections on life, philosophy, and therapeutic modalities and practice.
This book will be a thought-provoking listen for trainee and practicing counselors and psychotherapists, or anyone looking for self-reflection on their own practices, life, and ultimately, what it means to be human.
In one moment, two lives will be changed forever ... and forever ... and forever.
The one thing that's certain is that they met on a Cambridge street by chance and felt a connection that would last a lifetime. But as for what happened next ... They fell wildly in love or went their separate ways. They kissed or they thought better of it. They married soon after or were together for a few weeks before splitting up. They grew distracted and disappointed with their daily lives together or found solace together only after hard years spent apart.
With The Versions of Us, Laura Barnett has created a world as magical and affecting as those that captivated readers in One Day and Life after Life. It is a tale of possibilities and consequences that rings across the shifting decades, from the fifties, sixties, seventies, and on to the present, showing how even the smallest choices can define the course of our lives.
Studentin Eva kniet eines Morgens auf einer Straße und flucht über einen Nagel in ihrem Fahrradreifen. Plötzlich taucht ein junger Mann vor ihr auf mit ungewöhnlich blauen Augen: Jim. Was dann passiert, wird beider Leben für immer verändern. Eva wird ihren Freund David verlassen und mit Jim eine Familie gründen.
Doch alles könnte auch ganz anders kommen: Eva könnte nicht über den Nagel fahren, dem Mann mit den blauen Augen nur einen kurzen Blick zuwerfen und gemeinsam mit David nach New York gehen. Oder sie könnte Jim folgen, sich in ihn verlieben - und ihn schweren Herzens wieder verlassen, da sie von David schwanger ist. Wir lernen zwei Liebende in drei Varianten kennen, deren Wege sich, egal wohin das Leben sie verschlägt, immer wieder kreuzen.
