Stephanie Dowrick - The Universal Heart

This book, The Universal Heart by Stephanie Dowrick, changed my life – how often are you really able to say that?  But this one really did. 

The Amazon blurb says this:

In this text, Stephanie Dowrick explores not just our intimate relationships, but also the other key relationships of our life - with family, friends, children, ex-partners, colleagues and people in our everyday world. She invites us to discover the power we have to create relationships built on a rich, generous and inclusive idea of love.

Now that all sounds pretty loosey, goosey I know but actually there were some concepts in it that were really helpful in practice.  Of course, I still have major challenges in this area, like most people, but I know that I am better for having read the book.

She is a psychotherapist who has written a number of books including Intimacy and Solitude, Forgiveness and Other Acts of Love.  They are well written and not jargon laden.

Stephanie was born in New Zealand but lives in Australia.