Growing Yourself Up: How to bring your best to all of life’s relationships

The 2nd edition of this bestselling book helps you understand yourself by understanding your relationships.Drawing on Bowen family systems theory, the book explores each life stage to see predictable relationship patterns and make purposeful self-adjustments.The result is improved relationships and a sturdier self. To be human is to be in relationships. We can’t survive without them but it’s in relationships that we can so easily get unravelled.Some relationships just seem to do us in. Either we feel like we lose ourselves or feel burnt out from futile efforts to make things right for another.In our relationships we can experience the very best of ourselves and the very worst. The message of Growing Yourself Up is that you can’t separate understanding the individual from understanding relationships.All of life’s relationships are integral to increasing self-awareness and maturity. And it’s not necessarily the comfortable relationships that promote personal growth.In this 2nd edition of