Committed: Finding Love and Loyalty Through the Seven Archetypes

By Carmen Harra, Ph.D. and Alexandra Harra

Testimonials:

“Committed is a practical manual for anyone seeking to build and maintain a stable relationship. It offers grounded, realistic advice for readers to strengthen their bond with their significant other and get loyalty from the one they love.” —Dr. John Gray, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

“Powerful and timely! Carmen Harra's book, Committed, paves a way for authentic, reciprocal, passionate, and delicious relationships. Committed is your user's guide to manifesting and designing deep heart-based connections through self-love. Dr. Harra gives our mind a reason to accept what our heart already knows—that love is the great healer of life. Within these pages you'll discover the miracle of commitment...an alchemic evolutionary journey for experiencing true love.” —Dr. Darren Weissman, bestselling author of The Power of Infinite Love & Gratitude and developer of The LifeLine Technique®

“Harra’s deep understanding of human nature and her insight into the seven main love archetypes are vital to readers who want to develop an authentic, impassioned relationship with their significant other.” —Iris Benrubi, relationship expert and bestselling author of Lonely and Single to Loved and Adored

“With compassion and precision, Dr. Harra walks the reader through the confusing landscapes and minefields of online dating and real-time relationships. Her conversational style packs a lot of wise guidance on how to identify key relationship issues through understanding seven male archetypes: Independent, Workaholic, Narcissistic, Free Spirit, Hopeless Romantic, and Introvert. An archetype is a universal blueprint to the human personality regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, or culture. The brilliance in this book is the author's gift for presenting complex psychological models in a user-friendly style. Her techniques for self-awareness and reflection are accessible to any reader. If you are looking for love and confused by mixed messages, ghosting, and other weird cyber behaviors,Committed: Finding Love and Loyalty Through the Seven Archetypes can serve as a roadmap to finding a healthy relationship.” —Laurie Nadel, Ph.D. psychotherapist and best- selling author of The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

Excerpt: "What Are Archetypes?"

Throughout history, we’ve tried to classify people into different groups according to their personalities in an attempt to understand “why they do the things they do.” This is the basis for all psychology. Why does one person lie and another tell the truth? Why does one person cheat and another remain faithful? The word archetype comes from the Greek archein, meaning “original,” and typos, meaning “pattern.” So an archetype is an original pattern. In psychology, it’s a pattern of thought present in the human psyche. The theory of archetypes can be well applied to relationships. The ways in which we relate (or don’t relate) to another person also emerge from our subconscious. We have witnessed this truth for many years, working as psychologists and intuitive counselors and hearing every type of love scenario imaginable. We’ve worked with women who desperately desired the emotionally unavailable man, women who sought to escape the overwhelming man, couples that fell out of love then back in love, and men who realized they had been living a lie and actually loved other men. You name it, we’ve heard it. In listening to tens of thousands of cases over time, something interesting happened: we noticed that the same types of people kept cropping up—people unrelated to each other but displaying almost identical qualities and comportment. As soon as a client started describing the man she was dating, we could almost finish her sentence, because we knew what came next based on the archetype she was describing. We began to comprehend that personality traits descend from archetypes and that a p

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781636927572