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 marriage and family therapist in the San Francisco area for over thirty-five years, has conducted workshops internationally on relationships and couples therapy, and has appeared 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:

• 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

• 4 Hidden Ways Shame Operates

• Differentiating Shame from Guilt: It’s Not So Easy

• The Commitment Conundrum: What It Takes to Create Lasting Love

• Surprising Ways that Shame Can Serve Us

• The Power of Healthy Shame: How Shame Can Be Our Friend

• Differentiating the Pursuit of Excellence from Perfectionism

• 5 Ways to Make Love Thrive

• 5 Ways that Being Appreciated Nourishes Us

• The Quandary of Being Falsely Accused and How to Deal with It

• Re-Visioning Strength: What It Really Means to Be Strong and Why It’s Important

• Signs of a Dysfunctional Religion: Toward a Healthy Spirituality

• Tis the Season of Giving But Are We Forgetting the Other Half of the Equation?

• How Seeking Perfection Reveals Our Imperfection

• Surprising Ways that Shame Shows Up

• How Shame Contaminates Our Lives — and a Path Toward Healing