Daphne Rose Kingma

On Divorce, the Break Up, and a Broken Heart Originally published in 1987, and continuously in print since then, Coming Apart has been an important resource for hundreds of thousands of readers experiencing painful breakups. Whether going through a divorce, separation, or break up, bestselling author, Daphne Rose Kingma, offers the tools and validation needed to move forward. Bad breakups and stressful situations. Love is great; a broken heart, not so much. Usually accompanied by insomnia, loss of appetite, and depression, the end of a relationship is a hard time for anyone. Getting over a break up requires grit and understanding. This breakup first aid kit helps you get through heartbreak without falling apart and with your self-esteem intact. Uncoupling and understanding. While only time can heal wounds, understanding what transpired in each of our relationships is what allows us to finally let go and move on. With a refreshing perspective on relationships, Coming Apart helps us understand that all relationships come with lessons to be learned. So, rather than obsess over your ex, explore the critical facets of relationship breakdowns: • Why we choose who we choose • What relationships are really about • The life span of love • How to get through the end • A personal workbook to process and move forward With a foreword by the author of Conscious Uncoupling, Katherine Woodward Thomas, this new edition is sure to impress fans of, How to Survive the Loss of a Love, Getting Past Your Breakup, The Breakup Bible, Uncoupling, and other divorce books for women.

How to Heal Your Broken Heart

Coming Apart

Madame Métier and Her Friends weaves together magic, romance, and a powerful bond of friendship in celebration of the female spirit. Facing destitution after the untimely death of her husband, Madame Métier revisits a long-forgotten talent—the creation of healing botanical creams and lotions. Her rediscovery of this sacred practice marks the beginning of her spiritual odyssey of self-actualization and empowerment. Meanwhile, two eccentric friends of hers begin a passionate affair that ends their respective marriages. Invigorated by their relationship, Monsieur Sorbonne searches for his life’s passion while Mademoiselle Objet helps Madame Métier with her new business. While the couple explores the nuances of their romance, Madame Métier finds herself in a relationship with a mysterious being who redefines her understanding of human love. Just as things are looking up, Mme. Métier’s creams result in a customer’s death, and the three friends face an ordeal of profound doubt, spiritual crisis, and persecution that threatens to tear them apart. Daphne Rose Kingma brings insights from her self-help books to a modern fairy tale that is both enlightening and entertaining. This is an extraordinary debut about the nature of love and relationships.

A Spiritual Fairy Tale

The Magical World of Madame Métier

Lessons on Love From A Bestselling Emotional Healer Your go-to guide to love. Wherever you are on the relationship spectrum—married, dating, or single—there is always more to be learned about love. Each day brings a new opportunity to share in love, but if we don’t know how to best experience it, we aren’t making the most of this powerful emotion. “Love Doctor” and relationship expert Daphne Rose Kingma is here to help readers learn to love more passionately in their daily lives. A warm and welcoming voice. Kingma doesn’t just know her stuff, she knows how to teach her stuff. In addition to her books selling prolifically over the world, she has been a frequent guest on Oprah. This national bestseller book for couples and individuals alike is full of Kingma’s trademark witty and poetic writing. Her words invite us to explore what we know about love and challenge us to push our definition and scope of love further. Packed with wisdom and thoughtful insight. Love is as complex as it is beautiful and powerful. But to access that beauty, we have to expand our understanding of psychological and spiritual aspects of love—and Kingma provides the knowledge and insight to do that. Kingma reminds us that we are created for connection. To have a passionate marriage or a faithful relationship, we must work to understand how to experience love each day as fully as possible. Open up Daphne Rose Kingma’s True Love: How to Make Your Relationship Sweeter, Deeper, and More Passionate and discover… • Over sixty insights and suggestions for expanding your view of the essence of love • A source of help when it comes to understanding love, to be used daily or as-needed • Invaluable wisdom from an expert on all things love Readers of books such as Hold Me Tight, Married Roommates, and Eight Dates will find more guidance on love and relationships in Kingma’s True Love.

How to Make Your Relationship Sweeter, Deeper and More Passionate

True Love

A guide to building a better, more intimate relationship with your significant other from the author of Coming Apart and The Future of Love. Whether your relationship is just beginning, or you are celebrating your twenty-fifth anniversary, A Lifetime of Love offers sixty-five prescriptions for helping you achieve lasting love. You will discover how to have deeper intimacy, transcendent moments, and a wonderful soul connection. Follow the light of love with your treasured one. Work on your relationship through self-improvement, whether you have just started dating or have been in a marriage for years. Author Daphne Rose Kingma provides tips and pointers on ways to keep the romance alive such as dinner conversation starters. She wants you to feel the fire but also learn how to commit fully and gladly. Learn about intimacy through vulnerability, and ways to trust and love your partner and encourage longevity in your relationship. Praise for A Lifetime of Love “In a series of brief and enchanting essays, Daphne Rose Kingma delineates the spiritual dimensions of an intimate relationship. The challenge is to cherish each other’s souls and to champion each other’s spiritual growth. This means attending to the unfolding of your relationship with heart; sharing transcendental moments; learning the language of intimacy; being gentle, patient, and kind; practicing the art of empathy; and integrating the divine erotic. Kingma believes that mutual spiritual growth involves grace, hope, and wisdom. A Lifetime of Love shines a light on the path to the spiritual possibilities of love.” —Spirituality & Practice

How to Bring More Depth, Meaning and Intimacy into Your Relationship

A Lifetime of Love

Finding True Love

Lessons on Love From A Bestselling Emotional Healer Your go-to guide to love. Wherever you are on the relationship spectrum--married, dating, or single--there is always more to be learned about love. Each day brings a new opportunity to share in love, but if we don't know how to best experience it, we aren't making the most of this powerful emotion. "Love Doctor" and relationship expert Daphne Rose Kingma is here to help readers learn to love more passionately in their daily lives. A warm and welcoming voice. Kingma doesn't just know her stuff, she knows how to teach her stuff. In addition to her books selling prolifically over the world, she has been a frequent guest on Oprah. This national bestseller book for couples and individuals alike is full of Kingma's trademark witty and poetic writing. Her words invite us to explore what we know about love and challenge us to push our definition and scope of love further. Packed with wisdom and thoughtful insight. Love is as complex as it is beautiful and powerful. But to access that beauty, we have to expand our understanding of psychological and spiritual aspects of love--and Kingma provides the knowledge and insight to do that. Kingma reminds us that we are created for connection. To have a passionate marriage or a faithful relationship, we must work to understand how to experience love each day as fully as possible. Open up Daphne Rose Kingma's True Love: How to Make Your Relationship Sweeter, Deeper, and More Passionate and discover... Over sixty insights and suggestions for expanding your view of the essence of love A source of help when it comes to understanding love, to be used daily or as-needed Invaluable wisdom from an expert on all things love Readers of books such as Hold Me Tight, Married Roommates, and Eight Dates will find more guidance on love and relationships in Kingma's True Love.

How to Make Your Relationship Sweeter, Deeper, and More Passionate

Witty, poetic, and exuberant, "True Love" offers an illuminating approach to exploring and expanding the psychological, emotional, and spiritual possibilities of love. It contains an introduction to the essence of love and more than 60 entries to help the reader enrich his or her relationship.

Everyone wants one true love and this little book will show you how to experience it. Witty, poetic and exuberant, "True Love" offers more than sixty inspiring and illuminating suggestions to help you expand the psychological, emotional and spiritual possibilities of your own True Love.

Lessons on Finding Love and Becoming A Power Couple Wherever you are on the relationship spectrum—married, dating, or single—you can learn about love! Expert on love and relationship oracle Daphne Rose Kingma is here to help readers love more passionately. Your go-to guide to healthy love. Love can come in many ways, and can be just as complex as it is beautiful. Relationship books for women and love gifts for men tend to focus on the end goal being something physical, but the best love stories end with something better than that—healthy love and tips to being a power couple. True Love is a spiritual love book that focuses on building the foundations of love and how to experience a healthy love within all of your relationships, including the relationship you have with yourself. A warm and welcoming voice from an expert on love. Daphne Rose Kingma knows what it takes to experience deep love and how to become a real-life power couple. Her witty, poetic voice, recognizable from her frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, helps couples and individuals to embrace passionate marriages and deep relationships. Read her keys to creating sweet, healthy marriages and relationships right here! Inside True Love, you’ll find: • Over sixty insights for expanding your view on healthy love • Instructions on how to be a true power couple from an expert on love • A source for understanding love, relationship help, and how to give and receive love and respect, devotion, and more If you enjoy love books—best sellers like The Naked Marriage, Married Roommates, or Modern Love, you’ll love True Love.

"The future of relationships is moving us toward the vaulting awareness of who we really are as human beings, something we have managed to avoid for a very long time by being so thoroughly committed to convention...This is the future of love--vast love, love beyond boundaries, love without preconceptions and judgments, love without outdated myths--love which can actually be experienced." At a time when over half of all marriages are ending in divorce, Daphne Rose Kingma, a well-known therapist and relationship expert, has recognized that our familiar ways of thinking about relationships are no longer working. "I have written this book because it is clear that many of our previous assumptions about relationships need to be dismantled," writes Kingma. "As we go through this process, we will discover a number of new ideas: that our relationships can have different forms than we ever imagined; that they will serve different purposes; that they will require different offerings from us. They will also bring us new gifts." We are in the midst of a sea change, in which not only are many traditional relationships failing, but unexpected new arrangements are beginning to appear; gay marriages are surfacing, step-families abound, and many people are consciously choosing to live alone. As Kingma explains, these transformations should not be feared; instead, they represent a real opportunity. In the past, conventional relationships were often destroyed by an overemphasis on the nuts and bolts of psychology, on working to achieve the unattainable "perfect relationship" while ignoring our most vital selves--our souls. The glorious message of The Future of Love is that the disturbing changes we are all experiencing are actually part of the soul's plan, as it breaks down outdated conventions to bring us a new, fuller understanding of love.

The Power of the Soul in Intimate Relationships

The Future of Love

Coeur et Ame

Add layoffs, foreclosures, and skyrocketing health-care costs to the inevitable crises of every life, and you have today’s landscape. Amid these challenges, even those who thought they had solid coping skills feel that their center cannot hold as things fall apart. In her first book in many years, bestselling author Daphne Rose Kingma takes us on a path of emotional and spiritual healing, with particular attention to the complex and frequently overwhelming circumstances of our lives right now. The perfect combination of empathic friend, sage counselor, savvy problem solver, and even gallows humorist, Kingma looks straight into the predicaments so many of us face. She then offers ten deceptively simple yet profoundly effective strategies for coping on practical, emotional, and spiritual levels. The devastating events cannot be changed, but after reading this book, you will be, having recovered a sense of equanimity, spirit, and strength. Whether you’re struggling with money issues, job loss, relationship problems, an unexpected health crisis, or all of the above, this book will light your path and heal your heart.

An Emotional and Spiritual Handbook

The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart

Explores the nine personality types, describing what they are, how they interact, and why certain people are attracted to each other

Why We Love the People We Do and How They Drive Us Crazy

The 9 Types of Lovers

There are thousands of reasons for not loving ourselves. Every person has one, or one hundred, it seems. We're too fat or too thin. We cry too easily or not at all. We're not good enough, pretty enough, tall enough, powerful enough, brave enough or interesting enough. We convince ourselves that we don't deserve the lives we desire. In When You Think You're Not Enough, bestselling author and psychotherapist, Daphne Rose Kingma, helps readers root out the behaviors and beliefs that have prevented them from loving themselves. She offers a four-step plan for reclaiming yourself: speaking out our heart's desire, acting out to meet our heart's desire, clearing out old patterns, and setting out on a new path. Through stories and examples, Kigma offers a profound, yet simple process for practicing how to feel good enough, smart enough, and deserving of happiness. When You Think You're Not Enough is a positive guide to a fuller, happier life; one filled with compassion for yourself and others. Kingma's book The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart, published by New World Library, is the Winner of the 2010 Books for A Better Life Award, Best Spiritual Book.

The Four Life-Changing Steps to Loving Yourself

When You Think You're Not Enough

This text explains that there is more to a successful, lasting relationship than fireworks and high hopes. The author identifies nine personality types, and shows how these different types interact in romantic relationships.

Why We Love the People We Do & how They Drive Us Crazy

From the author of the bestseller Coming Apart comes a groundbreaking guide that shows women how to transform their relationships by helping the men they love get in touch with their feelings. "Addresses the issues today's women want to know about most".--Dr. Riki Robbins Jones, author of The Empowering Woman.

How to Deepen Your Relationship with the Man You Love

The Men We Never Knew

Dawna Markova

The personal, life-affirming stories of real people comprise this inspiring collection of antidotes to a weary world. Includes quotes from such figures as Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, among others. A delightful book that will inspire you to remake the world, one small act at a time.

Random Acts of Kindness

A leading expert on love and relationships presents an inspirational selection of daily reflections that explore the meaning, magic, and transformative power of love. By the author of Coming Apart. Original. 30,000 first printing.

365 Days of Love

Daily Reflections on Love The meaning and magic of love. Love is one of the most powerful forces we can experience in this world. It touches us in unexpected and profound ways each day, but it can also confuse and confound us at times. Bestselling author and beloved emotional healer Daphne Rose Kingma, dubbed “The Love Doctor,” writes with startling clarity on the subject of love and its many facets. She guides readers through the various elements and expressions of love with each page of this book. Reflect on the love in your life. There is love to be found in each day of our lives if we know how to look for and practice it. Kingma provides daily meditations for each day of the year, perfect for starting or ending our days. By reflecting on the words she shares about love, we are provided with a guide for living out the journey of life with a heart brimming with compassion. Find inspiration each day. Each day brings with it a new opportunity to share in and spread love. With the help of Kingma’s words, readers are able to see clearly the many-faceted possibilities that love brings. This little book serves to inspire, affirm, remind, encourage, support, and comfort each person who picks it up. With her characteristic prose and warmhearted style, Kingma has crafted a source of love in it of itself to be shared with readers of all ages. Open up Daphne Rose Kingma’s 365 Days of Love and discover… • A reflection for every day of the year with a fresh perspective on love • Clarity on how to see love in its many forms • An inspiring book for couples and individuals alike offering insight on self-love and outward love If you’ve read other books on practicing love such as Hold Me Tight, Journey to the Heart, Loving Bravely, and Eight Dates, you’ll enjoy Daphne Rose Kingma’s reflections on love in 365 Days of Love.

Who Better to Love You Than You? It’s time to stop feeling like we’re not enough. We’re either too fat or too thin. We're not good enough, pretty enough, popular enough, powerful enough, bold enough, brave enough, interesting enough... The solution? More self-love. Know yourself. Bestselling author and psychotherapist, Daphne Rose Kingma, offers a four-step plan to reclaim and love ourselves. Complete with stories and examples to drown out the inner critic, When You Think You’re Not Enough sets out to remind us that we’re more than enough. Be nice to yourself. If we’re being honest, we don’t take ourselves much into consideration. Acceptance, appreciation, respect, compassion… we reserve these virtues for others. Daphne reminds us that we need these to feel good too. It is only after we foster these in ourselves that we can apply it to a greater purpose. Inside, she’ll encourage you to love who you are, and look at and let go of: • Self-deprecating behaviors and beliefs • Old patterns and pressures • Imaginary ideals and standards If you’re ready to start loving yourself, and enjoyed books like, I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't), More Than Enough, or You Are Enough, then you’ll love When You Think You're Not Enough.

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