John's Bestselling Books:
Audiobooks and DVDs:
In John Bradshaw’s New York Times Bestselling Book, Creating Love: A New Way of Understanding Our Most Important Relationships gives insight to one the greatest mysteries, LOVE, and how to stop making the same mistakes over-and-over again. Have your ever asked yourself:
1) Why have so many people given up in love?
2) Why are many of us at many times completely baffled by relationships?
3) How can we think we know someone so well and admit in the end that we hardly knew that person at all?
4) Why do many people work diligently and strenuously to gain wholeness and balance still feel so frustrated about having a fulfilling relationship?
5) Why have so many people given up on LOVE?
In Creating Love, John Bradshaw provides both the insights and the precise tools we need to keep those destructive patterns from repeating in the present. We can use these methods to keep from making the same mistake over-and-over again. John Bradshaw provides a new way to understand our most crucial relationships - with our romantic partners and spouses, our parents, children, friends and coworkers and with ourselves.
In Creating Love, Bradshaw’s compassionate approach shows that many of us have been literally “entranced” by past experiences of counterfeit love, so we unknowingly re-create patterns that can never fulfill us. In Creating Love, John Bradshaw provides both the insights and the precise tools we need to keep those destructive patterns from repeating in the present. We can use these methods to keep from making the same mistake over-and-over again. John Bradshaw shows us how we can open ourselves to the simple soul-building work of finding REAL LOVE - and create healthy loving relationships where we can be fully ourselves in every part of our lives.
New York Times Bestselling Book, Creating Love: New Way of Understanding Our Most Important Relationships-- John Bradshaw provides a new way to understand our most crucial relationships. John Bradshaw offers a new way to understand our most crucial relationships - with our romantic partners and spouses, our parents, children, friends and coworkers and with ourselves.
Bradshaw’s compassionate approach shows that many of us have been literally “entranced” by past experiences of counterfeit love, so we unknowingly re-create patterns that can never fulfill us. In Creating Love, John Bradshaw provides both the insights and the precise tools we need to keep those destructive patterns from repeating in the present. We can use these methods to keep from making the same mistake over-and-over again and to get LOVE right. John Bradshaw shows us how we can open ourselves to the simple soul-building work of finding REAL LOVE - and create healthy loving relationships where we can be fully ourselves in every part of our lives.
ABOUT FAMILY SECRETS -WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW CAN HURT YOU
Family Secrets gives you the tools you need to understand your family—and yourself—in an entirely new way.
In his bestselling books and compelling PBS specials, John Bradshaw has transformed our understanding of how we are shaped by our families. Now join him on this fascinating journey of discovery, which starts with your life today and takes you back through the conflicts, the strengths, and the weaknesses of your parents’ generation—and even your grandparents’. Using a powerful technique for exploring your “family tree,” you’ll trace the visible and invisible patterns that have influenced you. You’ll learn about family secrets that are healthy and necessary, and also about the secrets that can limit your wholeness and freedom—even if you don’t know they exist.
This work is sometimes painful, but it is always enlightening—filled with the kind of “aha” moments and realizations that make everything fall into place. With John Bradshaw’s guidance, you will come to a new appreciation and acceptance of yourself. You will also be able to build more open, honest, and loving relationships with the people who matter most.
BRADSHAW ON: THE FAMILY: A New Way Of Creating Solid Self-Esteem-BOOK-Bradshaw helps us to understand the root cause of our emotional impairments and family-reinforced behavior traps & shows us how to make conscious choices to transform our adult life.
Fall 2014 Release of NY Times Best-Selling Author JOHN BRADSHAW'S latest book, POST ROMANTIC STRESS DISORDER - WHAT TO DO WHEN THE HONEYMOON IS OVER - NEW DISCOVERIES ABOUT LUST, LOVE, AND SAVING YOUR MARRIAGE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!
At this time of uncertainty and confusion, we urgently need to develop the inner strengths that will guide us no matter how much the world changes around us & no matter what new circumstances we encounter. Ancient philosophers called this VIRTUE
ABOUT HOMECOMING
Are you outwardly successful but inwardly do you feel like a big kid? Do you aspire to be a loving parent but all too often “lose it” in hurtful ways? Do you crave intimacy but sometimes wonder if it’s worth the struggle? Or are you plagued by constant vague feelings of anxiety or depression?
If any of this sounds familiar, you may be experiencing the hidden but damaging effects of a painful childhood—carrying within you a “wounded inner child” that is crying out for attention and healing.
In this powerful book, John Bradshaw shows how we can learn to nurture that inner child, in essence offering ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for. Through a step-by-step process of exploring the unfinished business of each developmental stage, we can break away from destructive family rules and roles and free ourselves to live responsibly in the present. Then, says Bradshaw, the healed inner child becomes a source of vitality, enabling us to find new joy and energy in living.
Homecoming includes a wealth of unique case histories and interactive techniques, including questionnaires, letter-writing to the inner child, guided meditations, and affirmations. Pioneering when introduced, these classic therapies are now being validated by new discoveries in attachment research and neuroscience. No one has ever brought them to a popular audience more effectively and inspiringly than John Bradshaw.
In A Theology Of Addiction, John Bradshaw provides help with addictive behaviors and explores the earliest roots of addictions, including genetic and conditioned traits. Many multiply-addicted individuals successfully change one behavior without changing all the others. John offers original therapeutic approaches to addictions.
In this two-part series, ADULT CHILDREN OF DISFUNTIONAL FAMILIES, John Bradshaw outlines a three-phase process of emotional recovery, un-covery, and discovery to help people who grew up in dysfunctional, abusive or neglectful families. This series is a “must-hear” for those who have long-suffered the consequences of being raised with physical or emotional abuse, abandonment, neglect and shame. John Bradshaw demonstrates how abuse is often carried into our adult lives, contaminating our relationships, emotional health and that of our loved ones.
In this profound & moving lecture, Bradshaw calls upon his theological background to encourage self-acceptance & to spread the truth of the awareness that we are all loved unconditionally by our Higher Power. We can find the place of of our belonging.
Why have so many people given up in love? Why are many of us at many times completely baffled by relationships? John shows us how to understand & create authentic healthy, fulfilling, and loving relationships in every part of our life in this powerful DVD.
This series follows actual people who are working on their recovery with eating disorders and offers a totally unique approach to managing the problem of food addictions including anorexia nervosa, bulimia, obesity, bingeing, & body dismorphic disorders.
All families have secrets. Some are healthy & others are “dark secrets" & limit the wholeness, emotional health, and freedom, often creating generations of dysfunctional family systems. John Bradshaw says, "What you don't know CAN hurt you!"
Take the journey that awakens the potential of our deepest selves.One of John's most enduring and exhilarating 10 hour intensive workshops with lectures, meditations & experiential exercises leads us on a journey to discover our much adored 'inner child.'
In this groundbreaking program, SURVIVING DIVORCE—An Emotional Survival Kit, New York Times Best Selling Author, John Bradshaw, shows you the pitfalls to avoid on the road to recovery from divorce while giving you the tools you need to survive divorce.
John Bradshaw explains why having good boundaries is crucial for healthy love relationships, as well as relationships with families, in the workplace and society.
This widely acclaimed PBS series contains ten hours of programming focusing on the dynamics of the family, relates how and why abusive, battering, compulsive or addictive behaviors are set up, and helps with intervention and healing within the family.
Part 1: The Family is Crisis (An overview of what constitutes a healthy family), Part 2: The Healthy Family (How a healthy functional family operates), Part 3: The Unhealthy Family (Characteristics of an unhealthy family), Part 4: The Compulsive Family (The core of all addictions), Part 5: The Persecuted (Incest and violence within the family), Part 6: The “Bad” Child (Shame and emotional abuse), Part 7: The Most Common Family Illness (Co-Dependency/Mystification - the most untreated addiction), Part 8: Help For The Family (Dealing with resentments, Getting to forgiveness), Part 9: Health For The Family (Stopping the denial of problems, Making interventions within the family), Part 10: Hope For The Family (Healing Ourselves, Healing The World)
You cannot live your own life when you are living that of others and use is abuse. Helping can hurt. John Bradshaw offers ways to free you from the bonds of co-dependency
Bradshaw addresses the problems that many people have maintaining relationships in which personal needs & boundaries are respected. In this important lecture, John deals with your critical needs & sets cornerstones in creating a good relationship.
This 4 hour audiobook, DEATH, DYING AND THE AFTERLIFE, is recommended for academic, professional, and public libraries and for those looking for ways to deal with the loss of a love one, to understand death, which is truly each of our destiny.
Getting love right means changing yourself, not trying to change others into what you think they should be. If you are tired of picking partners that you need to fix, you may want to look at your past. The Creating Love Workshop can be life changing.
Did you ever wonder what your dreams meant? John Bradshaw offers his perspectives on ways to connect dreams to the quest for higher consciousness, and offers a step-by-step methodology for higher consciousness & integrating your dreams.
Bradshaw traces human life through the eight stages of psychological development detailing each developmental needs & ego strengths in each developmental stage. He explores why it is important to have the ego needs met & how it affects your adult life.
Every father should hear this lecture. In this serious lecture, John Bradshaw explores the importance of having a secure father figure in the family & discusses the impact that the loss of the father-figure in our family & society has caused.
“If you are going to have a healthy relationship, you’ve got to know how to ‘fight fair,’ and know how to negotiate in a healthy way, " says John Bradshaw. Growth in relationships is about working through conflict, not about avoiding conflict!
Do you or your spouse have "Mother Issues?" These dangerous issues affect our adult intimate relationships in ways we are often not conscious of, leading us to addictions and intimacy problems. Learn how to finish your past to have a more enriched life.
John Bradshaw’s legendary work on family dynamics has touched millions of lives with hope & resolution for the family. We know how families, as social systems can become dysfunctional & what we can do about it. John shows how to bring new life to families.
John Bradshaw describes the unique ways each sex is impacted by the absence of a nurturing father. As participants explore their childhood relationships with their fathers, they identify obstructions in their current lives.
Toxic shame, the core component of our compulsions including, codependency, lying, addiction & the drive to super-achieve or underachieve, is often experienced in childhood & results in the breakdown of self esteem. Healing ourself heals relationships.
Are you having problems in your adult life managing relationships at home or in the workplace? Do you keep making the same mistake over-and-over? Do you have an addiction or rage? You may want to listen to HOMECOMING - a 7 1/2 hour workshop intensive.
Are you seeking ways to enhance and enrich your sexual life. In HUMAN SEXUALITY, John takes us on a spiritual journey to resolve our inner issues and conflicts offering hope and guidance for having a truly intimate life
John Bradshaw presents concepts of sexual abuse, including startling data on the extent of incest, 3 levels of sexual addiction, dynamics of incested families, profile of sex offenders & predators, & profiles COSA. He offers ways to heal sexual addiction.
Recorded at Red Rocks in front of 5,000 people, this revealing meditation series explores relationship issues pertaining to power, control, sharing feelings, and honesty. John Bradshaw offers concrete ways to appreciate the amazing & wondrous life.
This exhilarating lecture series takes the listener through a program to learn how to meditate. He helps you expand your consciousness & connect with your spiritual side. John Bradshaw presents stories from spiritual traditions in a meditative context.
John guides the listener in two meditations to support their sobriety and recovery program. Discussion segment gives important information on the relationship between addiction, stress, meditation, and spirituality. Includes 5 bonus tracks of pure music.
Small Gestures of Love offers you a healing experience that comes from one very small gesture of love and reminds you of the power you have to make a difference in the world and A Path To Wholeness helps you to become whole by owning your disowned parts.
“There are problems in all relationships, some of which can be solved & others that cannot,” Bradshaw concludes. He outlines 10 problems faced in virtually all relationships, shows us how to recognize them & practical guidelines on how to manage them.
In this fascinating workshop, MIDDLE AGE CRAZIES, John Bradshaw focuses on the dynamics of how the middle age of life affects men, women, couples, and families. He explores how the middle age crisis influences all our relationships & what to expect.
This workshop is a way to enrich interpersonal relationships. In this workshop, John explores ways that natural shame is at the core of all spirituality & how shame safeguards spirituality and gives insight to a fuller, more spiritually grounded life.
John Bradshaw explores ways to enrich and enhance the future lives of our children and offers a strong structure of good PARENTING and adds critical factors for the healthy emotional development of children
John Bradshaw knows that the spoken word of poetry often transcends the written text & is a powerful tool in healing the soul. This collection of moving classic and contemporary poetry spans the gamut of human emotions.
"Being in love is NOT love, " says John Bradshaw. Love is more enduring. John Bradshaw offers you positive, concrete and creative ways to find more meaningful love, intimacy, friendship and fulfillment in our relationships.
Relationships, social, intimate & in the workplace are prevalent in our world. Staying connected in relationships is often difficult. Knowing when to get out of a relationship is equally important. John offers ways to have fulfilling relationships.
In this remarkably honest lecture, John Bradshaw describes how co-dependency can set us up for religious addiction. In Religious Addiction, John Bradshaw describes two types of religious addictions and differentiates them from spiritual health.
John Bradshaw offers his perspectives on and provides a model for working through resentments & provides the listener with a concrete methodology to work past resentment through to the next step forgiveness & ways enhance interpersonal relationships.
The development of our emotional intelligence is often far more important to human happiness than IQ," say John Bradshaw. His new ethics of virtue show you how to make the right decision at the right time for the right reason, helping educate children.
John Bradshaw offers new approaches to prayer and intrasychic healing. This series combines neurolinguistic programming, meditation and the traditional theology of Christ and new approaches to prayer and intras-psychic healing.
John Bradshaw discusses ways to raise one's awareness in communicating honesty with others. The more that individuals can love themselves unconditionally, the more they can love others and engage in honest communication.
John helps you discover the spiritual gifts of the transcendent power, of your ‘Higher Self & developing the gifts of healing through visualization, creating deep inner peace, clairvoyant and telepathic abilities, and your powers of “therapeutic touch.
John Bradshaw offers his perspectives on ways to reduced stress and find inner peace, & teaches us how to replace stress producing thought patterns with feelings of inner peace and security & offers hope for highly stressed and Type A personalities.
John weaves together a Core of Spirituality using a vast array of philosophical and theological points of view that brings hope to listeners. John sees hope in the 12 Step Movement which has revived an ‘ancient spirituality of imperfection.
John Bradshaw depicts the unique work of the genius/psychotherapist Milton Erickson who used innovative techniques to help his patients including: Trance and The Unconscious Mind, Indirect Techniques, Confusion Technique, Handshake Induction & more!
Bradshaw discusses why it is important to understand the difference between toxic shame & natural shame. John explores toxic shame and how if differs from guilt, the he shows us how shame impacts our thinking and behaviors. John helps us heal toxic shame.
Bradshaw, exposes the hidden 7 destructive forces behind the façade of being the “nice guy, a people pleaser and co-dependent. For people who use “nice” as a disguise to cover shame. Bradshaw uncovers the dishonestly & resentment & how to heal from it.
Multigenerational shame is transmitted in family systems and is the root cause of addictive and compulsive behaviors. Shame in engendered through abandonment, rejection. & abuse. Bradshaw offers hope and concrete ways to rescript & enrich your life.
Bradshaw offers his perspectives on ways to enrich and enhance interpersonal relationships. This revealing lecture series explores relationships relevant to issues pertaining to power, control, sharing feeling, honesty, and ways to stay connected in life.
Bradshaw describes the harmful affects of co-dependency - often found in those in “helping” professions—teachers, counselors doctors, dentists, social workers, nurses, priests and therapists—but this is applicable for all “helpers” & “rescuers.”
John Bradshaw offers intensive approaches for anger management. This serious lecture series explores the tragic and insane dynamics of anger, rage-rackets and reenactments. John Bradshaw offers hope and concrete ways to deal with your anger & rage.
Being a fatherless child robbed John of his childhood. Fatherless children are one of the greatest tragedies of our time. Under John’s guidance, you can explore your relationship with, or absence of, your father. We can learn how to “father” ourselves, reimagine our past and live the life of being a good mentor and role model to our friends, co-workers, family and children
John Bradshaw discusses the psychodynamics of today’s woman. This is an important lecture on the empowering force of woman. John Bradshaw offers his perspectives on the complexities of womanhood and the importance of self-actualization of woman.
Toxic shame limits the development of self esteem and causes anxiety and depression, and limits our ability to be connected in relationships. This book is for those seeking the one great thing that is missing in their life--WHOLENESS and WELLBEING.