Closeness. Get to know yourself, understand each other, love life

How to heal childhood wounds in adulthood? How to remain sensitive yet feel safe? How to build relationships and live without losing the sense of vitality that nourishes and empowers us, our relationships — joy, and life — meaning, amidst the flow of situations, circumstances, tasks, and problems? Experienced psychologist Ekaterina Suratova gently and thoughtfully introduces you to the conditions necessary for intimacy and establishing it with yourself, others, and the world. Closeness is what brought us into this world. In a physical sense, we were born from the closeness of two people who, having entered into a relationship, later became our parents. Closeness is what gave birth to our personality: when someone looked at us with love, we felt and absorbed the value of our existence. Closeness is a process where we learn and continue to learn about ourselves: who we are, what is right and important for us, where to move, how to build relationships, what our strengths and weaknesses are, and how to manage all of this. Closeness is a space where we receive trust and support. Where we can rest, feel seen, heard, understood. Where we can admire another person or the world, feeling safe and actively absorbing energy from outside. In closeness, we receive impulses for movement and motivation for changes within ourselves and in our lives. Here we experience what we call love. In this space, when another sees us, and we see them and hide nothing, we heal and strengthen our sense of value, in the feeling of “how good it is to be me” and simply “how good it is to live.” Closeness heals wounds and compensates for internal deficits, which otherwise become the cause of inadequate behavior, stress, impulsive actions, and thoughtless reactions. Therapeutic exercises and stories from the author's practice will not only help you address current issues in relationships but also change your perception of your own inner world and your awareness of life. The book is in a hardcover. The paper is offset.