After a look at my Amazon order history for kindle books in 2018, I see I bought 32 books so far this year. Most of them I thoroughly enjoyed, some I haven’t even opened yet and there’s one in particular, that I’d like to share with you about. It touched me and helped me on a level that I feel is worth sharing with the world and I’m convinced it can help so many more people out there. In fact, I’ve recommended the book to more people than I can remember ever recommending a book to in the past and if you know me more personally, you’ll see I recommend books often.
The title is “Meet Me in Hard-to-Love Places” (not an affiliate link and I’m not paid in any way to write about this :), written by Eric Bowers, a counselor, NVC trainer and musician. From the very beginning, even the title itself already really drew me in.
In short, it’s a book about having inspiring relationships. That’s a lofty goal I thought when I picked it up, because who doesn’t want to have those kinds of relationships with their partners, friends, co-workers? And yet, I also felt some slight despair reading it in the introduction, because of disappointments I felt in the past reading other or similar books that were intending to offer the same. It was even more of a relief when the book delivered so well on it’s intention for me after reading it.
Since I read the book, I believe it has helped me dramatically improve the relationship to my girlfriend and my close friends. Most importantly, it’s given me a framework, backed by science how to move through difficult moments when they come up. Since I’m imagining that’s something many people out there would like, I can’t help but shout from the rooftops about it.