This is based on the book Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations For a Lifetime Of Love, which was first published by Dr. Johnson in 2008. The book offers a revolutionary new way to see and shape love relationships.
She focuses on key moments in a relationship and uses them as touchpoints for seven healing conversations, including: Recognizing the Demon Dialogues, Finding the Raw Spots, Revisiting a Rocky Moment, Bonding Through Sex and Touch, Forgiving Injuries, Keeping Your Love Alive
These conversations give you insight into the defining moments in your relationship and guide you in reshaping these moments to create a secure and lasting bond.
Through stories from Dr. Johnson’s practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, you will learn how to nurture, protect, and grow your relationship, ensuring a lifetime of love.
Recognizing Demon Dialogues
In this first conversation, couples identify negative and destructive remarks to get to the root of the problem and figure out what each other is trying to say.
Finding the Raw Spots
In this conversation, each partner learns to look beyond immediate, impulsive reactions to figure out what raw spots are being hit.
Revisiting a Rocky Moment
This conversation provides a platform for reducing conflict and repairing rifts in a relationship and building emotional safety.
Hold Me Tight
The heart of the program: this conversation moves partners into being more accessible, emotionally responsive, and deeply engaged with each other.
Forgiving Injuries
Injuries may be forgiven but they may never be forgotten. Instead, they need to become integrated into couples’ conversations as demonstrations of renewal and connection. Knowing how to find and offer forgiveness helps couples to strengthen their bond.
Bonding Through Sex and Touch
Here, couples find how emotional connection creates great sex, and good sex creates a deeper emotional connection.
Keeping Your Love Alive
This last conversation is built on the understanding that love is a continual process of losing and finding emotional connection; it asks couples to be deliberate and mindful about maintaining connection.
Final Thoughts:
Nothing good in life ever comes easily, and relationships are no exception. However, they can be one of the most rewarding aspects of life if you do it right. All of us need help from time to time and that’s the purpose of this book, to give you a different insight on how to work on your relationship in order to make it stronger.
It’s time for you to take action and make your relationship stronger!