About John Amodeo, PhD

John Amodeo, PhD, MFT, is the author of the award-winning book, Dancing with Fire: A Mindful Way to Loving Relationships. His other books include The Authentic Heart and Love & Betrayal. He has been a licensed marriage and family therapist for forty years in the San Francisco Bay area and has lectured and led workshops internationally, including at universities in Hong Kong, Chile, and Ukraine. He was a writer and contributing editor for Yoga Journal for ten years and has appeared as a guest on CNN, Donahue, and New Dimensions Radio. For more information, articles, and free videos, visit his website at: www.johnamodeo.com.

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Articles by John Amodeo, PhD:

• Self-Care as a Foundation for Love

• 4 Potent Ingredients for Deepening Intimacy

• RAIN: A Mindful Way to Process Our Feelings

• Somatic Psychology: The Benefits of Being in Our Body

• The Issues Are in Our Tissues: Focusing as a Somatic Approach to Therapy

• 3 Key Ingredients for Mature Love

• Finding a Balance Between Saving the World and Savoring It

• How It Takes Courage to Build Healthy Relationships

• How Mindfulness of Feelings Is Essential for Building Healthy Relationships  

• Creating Boundaries Without Being Bound by Them

• Healing the Shame That Blocks Receiving

• Why Is Receiving So Difficult?

• New Study Shows Most Americans Are Lonely

• The Nightmare of a False Accusation

• Are Most of Our Problems Self-Created?

• The Vital Importance of Emotional Safety in Relationships

• What It Means to Be Emotionally Safe in a Relationship

• The Gift of Self-Compassion

• The Generosity of Listening

• 5 Tips Toward More Generous Listening

• The Power of Pausing Before Speaking

• Living with Regrets and How to Deal with Them

• Do Relationships Require Compromise or Something More Fundamental?

• How Much News Should We Expose Ourselves To?

• Reclaiming Your Life After Breaking Up

• What It Means to Not Take Things Personally

• 4 Perils of Perfectionism

• Flexible Boundaries: Affirming Ourselves While Staying Connected

• Smiling Improves Your Emotional and Spiritual Health

• Why Seeking Reassurance Is a Good Thing

• 3 More Things That Keep Us Lonely

• Some Reassuring Thoughts About Needing Reassurance

• Intimacy as a Spiritual Path

• 3 Things that Keep Us Lonely

• How to Become a More Interesting Person

• What’s More Important: Speaking Your Truth or Maintaining Safe Relationships?

• Revisiting Unconditional Love: What Works and What Doesn’t

• How to Metabolize a Compliment

• Are You Codependent or Just Caring?

• 2 Things We Say that Dilute Contact

• Two Essential Factors for Effective Communication

• 6 Ways to Tune Up Your Listening

• How Healing Shame Can Save Our World

• On the Destructive Belief That No One Can Make Us Feel Anything

• How Meditation Helps Our Relationships

• What Drives Our Criticisms?

• What a Real Apology Looks Like

• The Transpersonal Nature of Intimacy

• When an Apology Is Not an Apology

• How Mindful Living Creates Lasting Intimacy