Hold Me Tight cover art

Hold Me Tight

Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

 Preview

Audible Standard 1-month free trial

Auto-renews at $8.99/mo + applicable tax after 30-day trial. Cancel Anytime
Try for $0.00
More purchase options

Hold Me Tight

Written by: Sue Johnson
Narrated by: Helen Keeley
Try for $0.00

$8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $32.99

Buy Now for $32.99

MORE THAN 1,000,000 COPIES SOLD!

Strengthen and deepen your relationships with revelatory practical exercises, seven profound conversations, and sage advice from “the best couple’s therapist in the world” (John Gottman, PhD, bestselling author)

Are you looking to enrich a healthy relationship, revitalize a tired one, or rescue one gone awry? We all want a lifetime of love, support, and companionship. But sometimes we need a little help.

Enter Dr. Sue Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and “the most original contributor to couple’s therapy to come along in the last thirty years,” according to Dr. William J. Doherty, PhD. In Hold Me Tight, Dr. Johnson shares her groundbreaking and remarkably successful program for creating stronger, more secure relationships.

The message of Hold Me Tight is simple: Forget about learning how to argue better, analyzing your early childhood, making grand romantic gestures, or experimenting with new sexual positions. Instead, get to the emotional underpinnings of your relationship by recognizing that you are emotionally attached to and dependent on your partner in much the same way that a child is on a parent for nurturing, soothing, and protection. Dr. Johnson teaches that the way to enhance or save a relationship is to be open, attuned, and responsive to each other and to reestablish emotional connection. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship and uses them as touch points for seven healing conversations, including:
  • Recognizing the Demon Dialogues
  • Finding the Raw Spots
  • Revisiting a Rocky Moment
  • Forgiving Injuries
  • Keeping Your Love Alive
These conversations give you insight into the defining moments in your relationship and guide you in reshaping these moments to create a secure and lasting bond.

Through stories from Dr. Johnson’s practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, you will learn how to nurture, protect, and grow your relationship, ensuring a lifetime of love. Communication & Social Skills Love & Romance Marriage Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Emotions Romance
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1

Editorial Review

Hold Me Tight presents Emotionally Focused Therapy, a revolutionary and effective new model of couples therapy developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, an internationally recognized Canadian clinical psychologist.

Emotionally Focused Therapy, a structured approach which has one of the highest rates of success, was once contested but is now highly popular in the field of couples intervention thanks to the scientific research supporting its merits. In fact, it has been recognized by the American Psychological Association as empirically proven and shows a lasting success rate of over 70%. As opposed to talk therapy or early childhood analysis, Emotionally Focused Therapy’s goal is to recognize the emotional bond based on nurturing, affection and protection between partners and to strengthen it to form resilient love relationships. As a streamlined version of this model, Hold Me Tight guides the listener through seven healing conversations focusing on seven key moments in a relationship, from “Recognizing Demon Dialogues” to “Keeping Your Love Alive”.

Helen Keeley lends her calm voice and steady tone to this Audible audiobook, offering us a new way of seeing and maintaining love relationships. She explains Dr. Johnson’s methods by means of advice, case studies and practical exercises which are currently being applied by couples from various cultures in different settings.

All stars
Most Relevant
This was very enlightening it is so eye opening and you can kind of see yourself nodding as you read. This book gave me such hope and understanding behind some situations at the whys & confusion it brought me. Thank you so much for such a great book.

Such guidance

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I think every couple should read this book. I cannot remember a book that was more instructive in the ways of relationships. Simply brilliant. I think it can save so many couples from heartache.

WOW!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
it allowed me to look into my relationship and see how I've made many mistakes in addressing issues and problems.

I will be using these techniques to better my relationship

big insighs

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
loved this book. powerful and very good insights on marriage and relationship ..family life altogether

very touching and beautiful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I had really high hopes for this book but I couldn't get past chapter 3 because the narrator's access drove me crazy and her role plays were laughable.

narrator is terrible

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.