Alicia Munoz – författare

Grow closer to your family with this new book by the author of the hit 190k copies sold self-help bestseller 'A Year Of Us'.Happy Family is a simple and thought-provoking gift book for you and your family, underwritten by the real expertise of its brilliant and fully credentialed US-based author Alicia Munoz. It will show you the huge gains you can make if you spend 15 minutes per day having fun and sharing meaningful conversations with the people that you love the most - even if they sometimes drive you mad.The creative, quirky and inspiring questions in this book get families talking, laughing, and sharing details about their inner and outer lives, helping them get to understand one another better, become more understanding and patient, and deepen IRL connection in an age of ubiquitous smart phones.Whether readers find themselves disconnected on long car rides, regularly eating in silence around a dining room table, or at a loss for words during family gatherings, birthday parties or at holiday events, the 250 questions in this book are unique and thought-provoking enough to get the extroverts listening and the introverts talking.Even for close, expressive families, this book will offer new angles and ideas on familiar themes, providing tools to help readers create a culture of curiosity and communication around topics that matter most to families, highlighting the shared history, unique roles, and evolving developmental stages of different family members, from thoughtful toddlers to reluctant teenagers and elderly relatives. It is a book to bind you together.

Energize your relationship with this quiz book for couplesCuriosity is a great way to create and sustain intimacy in relationships. Create curiosity in your relationship with quizzes that will have you competing against one another to see who really knows who best. The first part focuses on you as an individual. The quizzes shine a light on your personal likes and dislikes as you answer questions about your partners' preferences.The second part contains quizzes focused on you both as a couple. Answer questions together as a couple and compare your similarities and differences.In each part, there are light and playful themes mixed with complex and challenging ones. You'll get a chance to reminisce about your past, explore the present, and dream about the future together.Create a deeper connection with your partner and grow your relationship with this standout among relationship books for couples.

It’s time to stop overthinking your relationship! The four-step approach in this book will help you move beyond excessive rumination, so you can rediscover joy, ease, and meaningful connection with your partner.Rumination—obsessive thinking about an idea, situation, or choice that can interfere with normal life—is a common and destructive issue that can negatively impact romantic relationships, whether you’re just starting out or have been in a committed relationship for years. If you overthink your relationship and get stuck in cycles of anxiety, blame, or doubt, your negative thinking and judgments about your partner may be unfounded, unwanted, and may even threaten to tear apart an otherwise healthy relationship. You may feel anxious, worried, hopeless, and frustrated, but even if you know your overthinking is a problem, it can be seriously hard to stop.In Stop Overthinking Your Relationship, certified couples therapist Alicia Muñoz draws from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness to offer an effective, four-step approach to reduce rumination and change negative thinking patterns. By understanding both your own unique attachment style—as well as your partner’s—you’ll learn how to communicate more effectively, meet each other’s needs, and focus on what really matters in your relationship.Using the SLOW approach, you’ll learn how to: ·See rumination in process ·Label your rumination cycle ·Open yourself and make space ·Welcome blocked experiences This powerful blend of evidence-based psychology and practical guidance will help you overcome the unwanted thoughts and rumination that get in the way of trust and authenticity in your relationship. The book also includes individual and shared exercises, so you can “choose your own adventure” by working with the techniques alone, with your partner, or using a combination of both.By practicing the exercises in this user-friendly book, you’ll learn how to stop overthinking your relationship and discover a newfound sense of security, confidence, and wholeness—both as an individual and as part of a couple.