This book literally changed my life. Everyone should read this book. One year ago my life partner and I embarked on a new journey. We started a small business together! Exciting right? Well it has been the most challenging thing I've ever done. And all the therapy and meditations I was doing were not helping us get our cohesive relationship back. Until this book, I seriously thought we were doomed in every way. It changed the way I perceive my emotions and in turn can express myself more authentically. It installed a deep understanding and ability to communicate in us. As life partners and business partners. And it also changed my relationship with myself in tremendously positive ways.

Julie Colwell's work has had a profound impact on my work as a family therapist. Her work has helped me and the families I work with to live and communicate without blame and move toward what we really want in life. This is a must read for all family therapist.

Julia's book is easy to read, easy to follow, and has had a great impact on my relationship with my self AND on my relationships with a number of other people.

The approach is to understand how your own emotions work first, and then get buy in from your friend, so you both learn how to have better lives and to deal with each other's ups and downs.

Her clear strategies work very quickly. It is one of the most useful and practical 'self-help' books I have ever read.

An enthusiastic thumbs up for The Relationship Skills Workbook! My own relationship was in crisis when my partner and I started learning these highly effective tools from Dr. Julie Colwell, 12 years ago. How I would have loved to have walked out of her office then with this book under my arm. It is, effectively, a user's manual for real communication and understanding for couples and individuals. But more importantly, Julie's techniques make you realize that it is our relationship with others that allows us to find a deeper connection to our own selves. Now, when people ask me the secret of my 22 year relationship, I can hand them this book.

I loved this book! I recommend it without reservation to anyone who wants to live with passion and creativity.

Julie lays out the techniques and supplies the tools for rich and conscious relationships—with a partner, a lover, a friend, a family member—or all by yourself. The Relationship Skills Workbook is called a D-I-Y for a reason: each section gives you the information you need to work through real-time exercises. The concepts are elegant and simple; the exercises are easy and fun to do; the results are life-changing.

The consciousness skills Julie teaches are about being alive and passionate in all of your relationships. This books shows us that there are alternatives to breaking up, that we can make choices that lead us back into the love and passion that brought us together in the first place. And she tells us how to get there, starting from where we are.