HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS
25 Buddhist Practices to Transform Your Connection with Your Partners, Family, and Friends
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RELEASE DATE
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
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ABOUT HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS
Happy Relationships designed for all of us who are sometimes challenged by our husbands, wives, kids, parents, and best friends. It’s for anyone in happy marriages and close-knit families who want to feel closer and more connected to the most important people in their lives. Each short chapter honestly describes—in three to four pages—a common shared experience, such as the stress of old resentments, the opportunity of celebrating together mindfully, the nightly routine of a child’s bedtime, spending time with old friends—and is followed by a brief practice—a meditation, exercise, or contemplation that readers can use to orient their beautiful qualities of love, kindness, and wisdom to communicate and act in ways that lead to joy.
Advance Praise for Happy Relationships
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This book shows us how to build inner resources that are both psychological and spiritual. The author weaves her personal experience and Buddhist practices to show us how to hold ourselves with self compassion and hold our relationships with loving-kindness. We find an entry into the Dharma of human wholeness.
—David Richo, How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
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Happy Relationships offers heart-centered meditations that lay bare the power each of us have to shift our relationships in the direction of coherence, compassion, and kindness. In the voice of a good friend, Kimberly Brown's decades of study, practice, and lived experience shines through in a way that feels normalizing and grounded as she reminds us that more—much more—is possible than we ordinarily conceive.
—Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW, Outshining Trauma: A New Vision of Radical Compassion
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Kimberly Brown’s gentle, compassionate and tested approach opens the door to a path forward with those we love, showing us how Happy Relationships can be within reach for everyone.
— Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness and Real Life
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A wonderful guide to deepening the connections we share with those we love the most.
—David Michie, The Dalai Lama’s Cat series and Instant Karma: The Day It Happened
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Kimberly relates everyday relationship experiences—including her own—to help readers see that creating happy relationships is an inside job. She gently guides us though common struggles with the people we love, helping us open our hearts to find more patience, attention, compassion, and a willingness to let go of old hurts, resentments, and tired stories.
— Wendy Shinyo Haylett, Everyday Buddhism