How to Have Extraordinary Relationships: (With Absolutely Everybody)

Counsellor and therapist Lucy Cavendish wants to help you develop amazing relationships and achieve abundant connection with the most important people in your life. Over the years Lucy Cavendish’s practice has been inundated with clients desperate for help: they are lost, lonely, panicking and looking for ways to improve their key relationships with their co-workers, friends, siblings and partners. We all get in stuck certain patterns in our daily lives, or may find ourselves dissatisfied with our friendships and other relationships, and not know how to improve things. Yet small fixes are right there at our fingertips and can make a huge difference to our happiness and wellbeing. Each chapter of the book covers one of Lucy’s seven key tips for improving our relationships: Change the narrative You are responsible for your relationships You have choices – make different choices. Empathy Use Active Listening Heal yourself Be rigorous of where you put your energy Using case studies, some carefully selected statistics and her own years of professional experience, Lucy presents examples and clear, actionable advice that readers can use to deal with a range of challenges that they may be facing, whether large or small. This book is for anybody and everybody who wants to improve effective and humane communication skills, and develop their relationships and connect with the most important people in their lives.