Renewing Your Relationship by David Olsen

Renewing Your Relationship by David Olsen

Renewing Your Relationship: 5 Necessary Steps

Renewing Your Relationship: 5 Necessary Steps is a practical, easy-to-read workbook for couples interested in working together on their relationship as well as individuals attempting to understand their most intimate connections. In fact, couples therapists David Olsen and Erin Belanger-Freeh base Renewing Your Relationship in the most fundamental component of relationships: the self. Step one is changing oneself and one's role in a relationship.

This guide is a summary of the techniques and principles Olsen and Belanger-Freeh use in their sessions with couples and individuals seeking to increase intimacy and break counterproductive patterns. Drawing heavily on the principles of Bowen Family systems theory, the therapists encourage readers to identify and change interactional patterns that block intimacy and satisfaction, such as pursue-distance or over/under-responsible patterns. By the end of the book, readers are able to use the powerful concept of differentiation to see real change in their love lives.

His first full-length poetry collection, Unfolding Origami (80pp, 2015), won the Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award, and his second full-length poetry collection, Past Imperfect, is forthcoming from Cinnamon Press. David's fourth poetry chapbook is Exit Wounds. Sailing to Atlantis (Finishing Line Press, 2013), New World Elegies (Finishing Line Press, 2011), and Best Hits (Pudding Publications, 2001) are among his previous chapbooks. Since 2012, he's had poetry published in Blueline, Lunch Ticket, Vermont Literary Review, The Aurorean, Pinyon, Pilgrimage, Pedestal, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, San Pedro River Review, Turtle Island Quarterly, California State Poetry Society Poetry Letter, Scintilla, Strong Voices, Touch: The Journal of Healing, Poetry and Business, Cyclamens and Swords, Devilfish Review, Wordgathering, Prism, Prism, Prism, P David was previously an energy economist, management consultant, and performing arts critic, with a BA in chemistry from the University of California-Berkeley and an MA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. He has been a resident of Oxford since 2002.