Product Description
Mark Bryan’s work is bringing families together. He was a member of Oprah Winfrey’s 1999 “Change Your Life” team and a regular on her show, where he reunites parents and children. Now, counselor, educator, and co-founder of The Artist’s Way Workshops, Mark Bryan offers an audiobook that will help all of us get closer to our family members and achieve deeper intimacy by cracking the Codes of Love. As a counselor, Bryan reconnects parents and grown children despi… More >>
#1 by Beth Norman on April 8, 2010 - 10:31 pm
This type of book needs to be in every household throughout the world not just the country!
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Kevin M Quigg on April 9, 2010 - 1:14 am
This is a great read for anyone having a family or coming to terms with family problems. Bryan came from a disfunctional family and spent a decade of his life blaming his family for the letdowns in his life. Once he saw his family was not the problem and he was, he came to terms with his family and decided to become a member of the family again. This book mainly focused on the interaction between children and their parents, but it can be used with other relationships. This is a great read for any of us who have problems with their family, because it councils us in how to behave in the proper manner. As Bryan himself also states, he even has to work on how to see his family in the proper light. This gives great insight into family dynamics, and is useful reading for anyone.
I plan on using some of Mark’s principles with my family. Family matters, and as Mark show, some of us have some pretty heavy baggage. Losing the baggage is a first step in coming to terms with your family. Good read and great advice.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Alex Letterman on April 9, 2010 - 1:17 am
I received this book as a gift and it really helped me to see that I was interpretting things my family was saying and doing in a defensive and distorted way. This book has helped to re-examine these things and accept that my family loves me and just wants what is best. I have also tried to stop controlling family members, which has been something I was told and never believed until now. Hats off the the author for writing this insighful book!
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by The Black Sheep Fortner on April 9, 2010 - 3:20 am
Mark Bryan is my husband’s cousin. I saw him on Oprah talking about his book and had to get it. However, it was out of stock. Mark sent me an autographed copy and I read it in a day. It was so helpful to me to learn to deal with some members of my own family, but more importantly with my husband’s family. Now that I have the truth on where my husband “comes from”, it is easier for me to understand how and why he thinks the way he does…that also goes for the rest of his immediate family. I am going to have my husband read this to help him work out his problems with his parents.
It was very touching and loving to hear about the extended family that I have not ever met. Jim and Mark’s grandmother, Minnie, was an exceptional woman, and I can relate to her in many ways. I admire Mark for all he has done and for all he has accomplished.
He has been so supportive of us, but this book has really “tied the loose ends up” for me. The exercises at the end of each chapter are really thought provoking. I began to remember memories that I would have thought that I had forgotten forever. It is nice to know that they are there, and now I can incorporate them in with the “bad” so that the “bad” isn’t that horrible. I feel that I have grown and matured, and am ready to Re-Frame and Remake my life. He is right…you can go home again.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Anonymous on April 9, 2010 - 4:18 am
Buy a copy for yourself AND every member of your family
Rating: 5 / 5