Closeness. To discover oneself, understand each other, and love life.

How to heal childhood traumas in adulthood? How to remain sensitive, but feel safe? How to build relationships and live without missing out on the flow of situations and circumstances, tasks and problems, the very feeling of vitality that feeds and empowers us, our relationships - with joy, and life - with meaning? Experienced psychologist Katerina Suratova will gently and lovingly introduce you to the conditions necessary for the emergence of intimacy and its establishment with oneself, surroundings, and the world. Intimacy is what brought us into this world. In a physical sense, our birth was the result of the intimacy of two people who, once in a relationship, later became our parents. Intimacy is what gave birth to our personality: when someone looked at us with love, we felt and absorbed the value of our existence. Intimacy is a process in which we discovered and continue to discover ourselves: who we are, what is right and important for us, where to go, how to build relationships, what our strengths and weaknesses are, and how to deal with all of this. Intimacy 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 intimacy, we receive impulses for movement and motivation for changes in ourselves and 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, strengthen our sense of self-worth, the feeling of "how good it is to be me" and simply "how good it is to live." Intimacy heals traumas and compensates for internal deficits that otherwise lead to inadequate behavior, stress, impulsive actions, and thoughtless reactions. Therapeutic exercises and stories from the author's practice will not only help you address current relationship issues but also change your perception of your inner world and awareness of life. Hardcover book. Offset paper.