Liberated Love - by Mark Groves & Kylie McBeath (Hardcover)

About the Book

"We all desire great love. Yet, there seems to be a lot in the way when it comes to cultivating a relationship we crave. Why is that? It's time for a new template - one rooted in choice, truth, safety, and respect. To get us there, Mark Groves and Kylie McBeath, champions of positive philosophy, provide us a roadmap, one they walked themselves, to step out of protection mode and into connection mode. Groves and McBeath's work-through their Create the Love seminars, workbooks, and consultation programs-have educated a new generation of relationship seekers on the best ways to practice and cultivate love. In Liberated Love, you'll explore your original relationship blueprint and learn how it informs your current relationships (spoiler alert: it's often a pretty direct line), and discover how limitation can be the key to finding freedom and experiencing full, fully-realized love with another person. Equipped with real-life situations and stories, exercises, rituals, and tools that lead to productive self-examination, Groves and McBeath illuminate how to be aware of our most instinctual defenses, survival strategies, and coping mechanisms, how to have conversations about relationships without turning them into "relationship conversations," and how to date in a way that protects your heart as you open it up to new possibilities. In these pages, in a format you'll want to turn to again and again, you'll learn how to begin and maintain relationships that allow true self-expression-to feel safe and to feel real, involving, sustaining love"--

Book Synopsis

We all desire great love. Yet, there seems to be a lot in the way when it comes to cultivating a relationship we crave.

Why is that?

It's time for a new template -- one rooted in choice, truth, safety, and respect. To get us there, Mark Groves and Kylie McBeath, champions of positive philosophy, provide us a roadmap, one they walked themselves, to step out of protection mode and into connection mode.

Groves and McBeath's work--through their Create the Love seminars, workbooks, and consultation programs--have educated a new generation of relationship seekers on the best ways to practice and cultivate love. In Liberated Love, you'll explore your original relationship blueprint and learn how it informs your current relationships (spoiler alert: it's often a pretty direct line), and discover how limitation can be the key to finding freedom and experiencing full, fully-realized love with another person.

Equipped with real-life situations and stories, exercises, rituals, and tools that lead to productive self-examination, Groves and McBeath illuminate how to be aware of our most instinctual defenses, survival strategies, and coping mechanisms, how to have conversations about relationships without turning them into "relationship conversations," and how to date in a way that protects your heart as you open it up to new possibilities.

In these pages, in a format you'll want to turn to again and again, you'll learn how to begin and maintain relationships that allow true self-expression--to feel safe and to feel real, involving, sustaining love.

Review Quotes

"The unique feature of Liberated Love is that the co-authors are 1) married and 2) have the courage and audacity to be vulnerable and 3) use the events and procedures of their relationship as a guide to others on the journey to liberate themselves from codependent patterns to the create the love they want. Not only that, but the book is encyclopedic in theory and research and studded with practical gems from their practice. We recommend it to all couples, both those on their way to commitment and to those who have long struggled to commit and overcome the impediments of joyful and lasting love." - Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of Getting the Love You Want

Ever wonder why we protect ourselves from loving and being loved, even in our most intimate relationships? Liberated Love screams in all caps that you can change your attachment style and that you're worth the love you crave. So why not buckle up with a couple of down-to-earth guides who know this road well? Mark and Kylie will get you through any of the ten blind spots along the journey to deeper intimacy and reconnection. Repair kit for emotional triggers included. -- Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, developer of A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT) and best-selling author of Wired for Love, In Each Other's Care, and We Do.

About the Author

MARK GROVES is a Human Connection Specialist, founder of Create the Love and host of "The Mark Groves Podcast." Mark's work bridges the academic and the human, inviting people to explore the good, the bad, the downright ugly, and the beautiful sides of connection.

KYLIE MCBEATH, also known as @beingisbeautiful, shares daily guidance and teachings on relationships, spirituality, and embodied liberation. She is a Certified Health Coach; a co-founder of the education platform and community Zura Health; and the host of The Journey Home podcast.