Joanne skilfully integrates her research and wisdom from her therapy practice and weekly newspaper relationships column resulting in a refreshing, realistic and entertaining approach to renovating your relationship. From self-awareness, discovering the best version of yourself to contribute to your partner through to communication, conflict, parenting and infidelity, it is a comprehensive tool-box for ongoing maintenance of the most crucial project in your life. Renovate Your Relationship is an easy to read, inspiring and transformational resource designed to meet the needs of all stages of relationships from cruising, complacent, dissatisfied through to highly conflicted. It is a must-have for couples with families struggling to keep their relationship alive designed to support them through one of the toughest phases in their life. Joanne’s revolutionary yet simple guide to approaching conflict respectfully with meaningful, healthier and happier outcomes is life changing. Real-life personal and de-identified client examples ensure this comprehensive resource is relatable, expertly presented and invaluable to both women and men. Renovate Your Relationship comes highly recommended by US author, John Arden, PhD, ABPP who has over 40 years of experience providing psychological services and directing mental health programs. Dr Arden endorses this much needed publication, ‘Intimate partnerships-marriages can be challenging and yet the best thing in our lives. Joanne Wilson’s wonderful book provides a wealth of insights, not only from her professional experiences with couples but by making new developments in neuroscience relevant and practical to our relationships. Beautifully written, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of successful relationships. As she eloquently notes Marriage is not an ancient and outdated tradition: it is a wonderful celebration of the love you have for your partner. This book is a must read for those wanting to cultivate depth, love, and longevity to their marriage.’ Australian neuroscientist, speaker and author, Sarah McKay DPhil (Oxon), affirms ‘Renovate Your Relationship is a timely, entertaining and practical handbook for relationship building, maintenance and improvement. A must-read for every couple.
