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"Your book is fantastic. As I started it, I thought about a relationship I'd had with a woman that ended badly, without any closure. I plan on sending her a copy, as well a everyone else I know who has a relationship they long to reconcile.The energy of reconciliation is powerful!"
reader from Taos, New Mexico
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Peg Booth
760-929-1111
Booth Media
pegbooth@boothmedia.com
From the nationally recognized lecturer and co-author of the
best-selling classic The Courage to Heal, comes an emotional road
map for the process of reconciliation�
I THOUGHT WE'D NEVER SPEAK AGAIN:
The Road From Estrangement to Reconciliation
by Laura Davis
Have you ever had a major falling out with someone who was once an important part of your life? Do you often
regret how that situation turned out, and wish that it could be reconciled, but have no idea where to begin or
how to do it? Almost everyone, at some point in their life, has suffered the loss of a close relationship.
Even unintentional miscommunications can cause rifts - between family members, close friends, co-workers, or
individuals from different ethnic groups, races, or religions. The good news is that it is possible to
reconcile and mend relationships once believed to be beyond repair.
Laura Davis, renowned lecturer and best-selling author, has written I THOUGHT WE'D NEVER SPEAK AGAIN:
The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation (HarperCollins; April 2nd, 2002; $24.95; 0060197625) - a guide
for those who wish to restore these damaged and lost relationships. With wisdom, compassion, and care,
Davis steers readers along the path to making peace under very difficult circumstances, offering step-by-
step guidance alongside personal accounts of how different people have healed delicate wounds.
Laura Davis draws an important distinction between reconciliation and forgiveness, explaining
that people can reconnect without necessarily forgiving past hurts. She illustrates how ordinary people
can rebuild relationships with the fathers, mothers, children and friends they thought they would never
speak to again, and addresses a broad spectrum of other interpersonal conflicts: we see crime victims
confront perpetrators, war veterans return to Vietnam, children of Holocaust survivors meeting with
children of Nazis, and Palestinian and Israeli girls learning to listen to each other. Providing
concrete proof that her methods are effective and really can work, Davis also shares her own moving
story of how she reconciled with her mother after many years of estrangement.
I THOUGHT WE'D NEVER SPEAK AGAIN is divided into five parts, each detailing a stage in the process
of reconciliation. Chapter by chapter, Laura Davis builds the reader's readiness to take the next step,
gathering the self-awareness, courage, and skills to make realistic reconnection with estranged friends,
family, or important others. These steps provide the essential building blocks for both men and women,
young and old, in repairing just about any relationship.
An important and relevant book for our times, I THOUGHT WE'D NEVER SPEAK AGAIN is sure to help many on
the road to reconciliation.
Laura Davis is a nationally recognized expert on healing and co-author of the best-selling classic, The
Courage to Heal. She has also written The Courage to Heal Workbook and Allies in Healing and co-authored
Beginning to Heal and Becoming the Parent You Want to Be: A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five
Years. She has created an online reconciliation community at http://www.LauraDavis.net. (Make these
books hot links, but link them to the description in the online store, rather than the Amazon order
forms)
I THOUGHT WE'D NEVER SPEAK AGAIN:
The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation
by Laura Davis
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Alternate Selection, One Spirit Book Club
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Publication Date: April 2, 2002
Price: $24.95/Pages: 368
ISBN: 0060197625
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