
Love Is an Action Verb: Stop Wasting Time and Delight in Your Relationship
DIY Relationship Self-Help Series, Book 1
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Looking for ways to deepen your connection? Discover the power to transform your relationship on your own.
Struggling to rekindle affection? Partner lacking motivation? Wish there was new, updated, inclusive relationship advice? With over 30 years of counseling experience, Certified Gottman Therapist Laura Silverstein has helped stressed-out individuals and couples overcome countless frustrations. And now she's here to take you behind the scenes of a couples therapy office, share her expertise, and help you avoid simply going through the motions and start empowering change.
Love Is an Action Verb: Stop Wasting Time and Delight in Your Relationship is a funny, thought-provoking, surprising new audiobook that helps you take a deeper dive with your best friend. You’ll learn impeccably researched, step-by-step approaches to manage conflict quicker and leave more room for fun and intimacy. And by following Laura’s practical guidance, you and your partner will soon be helping each other find your way back to joy.
In Love Is an Action Verb, you’ll discover:
- Carson and Jamie, a fictional couple who join you on your journey through the audiobook
- Formulas and flowcharts to help you stimulate productive and positive discourse with your significant other
- How to deal with disconnect, so you feel understood
- Ways to save money on pricey counseling by tapping into the power of self-reflection
- Gender-neutral examples to bring real-world problems to life with practical solutions
- Exercises, printable worksheets, and workbooks based on empirical research, and much, much more!
Love Is an Action Verb is your audiobook for romance; profoundly personal yet universally applicable. If you like well-researched information and relatable, humorous writing, then you'll enjoy Laura Silverstein's supportive audiobook.
Buy Love Is an Action Verb to rekindle happiness today!
©2022 Laura Silverstein (P)2022 Laura SilversteinListeners also enjoyed...
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- Rissa
- 04-27-22
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So lovely to have such strategies applied, singularly, and be so beautifully insightful as to be helpful to the pair!
Thanks so much for sharing! Very helpful and well written, super clear. Easily understood, and appreciated.
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- LKC
- 04-02-25
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Loved this! This nook is a must have for anyone who is in a loving relationship who wants to connect on a deeper level. Easy to read and implement her tools. Applying her ‘rules’ and implementing a daily connection routine has made all the difference
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