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Relationships: Why are they so difficult & what can we do about it?
Why are relationships difficult? It's not because we are bad or stupid. It's because we are not well made... What can we do about it? We need to develop our brain beyond what nature has given us and what our childhood has wired into us. In particular, we need to work to integrate our executive functions and our limbic functions, which aren't naturally integrated in any of us. The key to better integration is through our emotions. Only when we are better integrated, we are mature enough to be in relationships that are safe and based on compassion, unconditional acceptance and true intimacy.
In this booklet Avigail discusses topics that are significant to relationships and that are not usually covered in other relationships texts. This booklet does not focus specifically on intimate relationships. This is intentional because many of the problems that people have tend to be present in all of their relationships and because the common denominator in all our relationships is us.
Avigail's style is accessible but without dumbing things down. The material in this booklet is based on twenty years of clinical practice, neuroscience and lived experience. This is the fourth booklet in the Fully Human Psychotherapy Tools for Life Series.
In this booklet Avigail discusses topics that are significant to relationships and that are not usually covered in other relationships texts. This booklet does not focus specifically on intimate relationships. This is intentional because many of the problems that people have tend to be present in all of their relationships and because the common denominator in all our relationships is us.
Avigail's style is accessible but without dumbing things down. The material in this booklet is based on twenty years of clinical practice, neuroscience and lived experience. This is the fourth booklet in the Fully Human Psychotherapy Tools for Life Series.
88 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 9, 2018
About the author
Avigail Abarbanel
7 books4 followersAvigail has been a psychotherapist in private practice since 1999. She started her practice in Canberra Australia, and after eleven busy years, she moved to the Scottish Highlands where she has been living and working since 2010.
Avigail’s practice is based in Cawdor. She is Snr Accredited with the BACP and is a psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer, consultant, and writer. Avigail is passionate about sharing her knowledge with everyone. Since the development of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) by Dr Dan Siegel, she believes that too many psychotherapists work in an outdated way, and that there is no reason for psychotherapy to continue to be a mystery to people. She has written *Therapy Without A Therapist* specifically to share her way of working with everyone. Avigail offers free to all podcasts on this and other topics in her field. The podcasts are available here: https://avigail.substack.com/podcast
Avigail has a vision for a research centre, combined with a larger practice and training centre. She hopes to secure funding to realise this vision.
Her work website is at www.fullyhuman.co.uk and all her publications are available on Amazon worldwide. Avigail publishes essays on her Substack page: ‘Avigail Abarbanel's Fully Human Essays’ and other writings and articles on Academia.edu
Avigail was born in Israel in 1964. In 1991 she migrated to Australia, and ten years later she renounced her Israeli citizenship in protest. Avigail is an anti-Zionist activist for Palestinian human rights and against Zionist-Israeli settler-colonialism.
Some of her writings on Palestine-Israel can be found on Mondoweiss and the Electronic Intifada, more recently she has been publishing on her Substack page ‘Avigail Abarbanel’s Fully Human Essays’, and on Medium.
Avigail’s practice is based in Cawdor. She is Snr Accredited with the BACP and is a psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer, consultant, and writer. Avigail is passionate about sharing her knowledge with everyone. Since the development of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) by Dr Dan Siegel, she believes that too many psychotherapists work in an outdated way, and that there is no reason for psychotherapy to continue to be a mystery to people. She has written *Therapy Without A Therapist* specifically to share her way of working with everyone. Avigail offers free to all podcasts on this and other topics in her field. The podcasts are available here: https://avigail.substack.com/podcast
Avigail has a vision for a research centre, combined with a larger practice and training centre. She hopes to secure funding to realise this vision.
Her work website is at www.fullyhuman.co.uk and all her publications are available on Amazon worldwide. Avigail publishes essays on her Substack page: ‘Avigail Abarbanel's Fully Human Essays’ and other writings and articles on Academia.edu
Avigail was born in Israel in 1964. In 1991 she migrated to Australia, and ten years later she renounced her Israeli citizenship in protest. Avigail is an anti-Zionist activist for Palestinian human rights and against Zionist-Israeli settler-colonialism.
Some of her writings on Palestine-Israel can be found on Mondoweiss and the Electronic Intifada, more recently she has been publishing on her Substack page ‘Avigail Abarbanel’s Fully Human Essays’, and on Medium.
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