Rekindle the Spark: Ten Steps to Revitalise Your Relationship

Do you feel that your marriage has lost the spark it once had? Would you like to strengthen your relationship? Want some tips on how to communicate better with your partner?

Clear, concise and practical, Rekindle the Spark provides an at-home programme of interactive exercises that explore common relationship problems and enable you to acquire skills and strategies to help create and maintain a bond that is happy and healthy. The programme is based on cognitive behavioural therapy and the author’s long experience of relationship and psychosexual counselling.

Each of the ten steps explores a distinct and common issue:

• Knowing yourself more deeply
• Truly knowing your partner
• Effective communication
• The art of real listening
• Recognising and dealing with emotions
• How to handle an argument
• Putting the fun back into your relationship
• The role of sex and intimacy in your relationship
• The importance of keeping your own identity
• Sharing the workload at home

Rekindle the Spark is an effective self-help programme for couples. It can be worked on in your own time, in the privacy of your home, either alone or with your partner. Whatever your circumstances, from newly-weds to empty-nesters, this book will help you rekindle the spark in your relationship.

Barbara Duff is a relationship and psychosexual counsellor with over twenty years’ experience. An accredited member of the National Association for Pastoral Counselling and Psychotherapy (NAPCP), she offers her counselling services privately and through Accord, the nationwide marriage care service in Ireland. Visit her website at www.relationshipsandlove.org.