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Building Bonds

Why We Choose the People We Choose (and how to change if we want)
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Understand your relationships, break free from trauma and hold on to your worth. Written by psychotherapist, speaker and author Zoë Aston, Building Bonds explores the human experience through the lens of relationships with guidance on how to accept yourself and grow within current and future relationships.... Read More
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Learn to navigate relationships

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Understand your relationships, break free from trauma and hold on to your worth.

Written by psychotherapist, speaker and author Zoë Aston, Building Bonds explores the human experience through the lens of relationships with guidance on how to accept yourself and grow within current and future relationships.

Whether you struggle to make friends, are in a toxic romantic relationship, feel your family bonds need repairing or have any other relationship difficulty, this book will help you understand how to build and maintain relationships with a sense of self-worth, dignity and respect.

Start your journey to healthier relationships by examining the relationship you have with yourself. Understand how your earliest relationship experiences can shape the way you enter all future relationships and move forward with accepting yourself and building resilience. Work through the book to discover more about romantic relationships, friendships, family relationships, professional relationships and online relationships.

With reflective exercises and personal case studies, readers working through this book will gain a deeper understanding of both their own and others' behaviours within their relationships and become equipped with tools to help work through trauma, move on from toxic relationships and build more positive and resilient relationships in the future.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781800787223

Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 February 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Studio Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 143.0mm

Height: 223.0mm

Weight: 334g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Zoë Aston is a London based psychotherapist, speaker and author. She has an MSc in Psychology and Counselling. Zoë specialised for almost a decade in addiction and eating disorders, working at residential and day treatment centres in Central London. She then went on to set up her own therapy practice and released her first book, Your Mental Health Workout in 2021. Zoë's second book, Building Bonds, will be released with Bonnier Books UK in 2025.

Zoë is the founder of the website www.yourmentalhealthworkout.com and you can find out more about her work at www.zoeaston.com.

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