'A wonderful handbook on relationships, which requires you to be brave, dig deep and face your fears about falling in love’ - Suzy Greaves, Editor-in-Chief, Psychologies magazine
Are you struggling to understand why you're single or why none of your relationships work out? Do you find yourself drawn to unavailable partners and to people who won't commit? Do you find it difficult to meet eligible men or women or to find decent, reliable people attractive? Do you look on with bemusement as friends and relatives fall in love and tie the knot, wondering if you'll ever meet your match? If the answer is ‘Yes’, this book will help.
How to Fall in Love is a dating and relationships guide with a difference. It's for people who are looking for something deeper than superficial advice and who are willing to explore the real reasons for their singleness. It combines moving memoir with practical insights and tried and tested tips.
In this book, Katherine Baldwin, a love, dating and relationships coach, takes you on a journey of personal transformation, helping you to identify and challenge unhealthy relationship patterns and negative core beliefs, many of which will have deep roots, and to find the answers to your dating dilemmas within yourself.
She helps you to grow in self-esteem, reconnect with your intuition, break ties with lost loves, let go of the fantasy of the perfect partner, become open to dating people who aren't your usual type and set loving boundaries for dating so that you’re open to love but protected from hurt. She encourages you to mature emotionally and make bold choices so that you can form a healthy, loving and long-lasting partnership.
The 10 steps in this book are based on Katherine's own transformational journey that enabled her to fall in love in her early forties after years of dating disasters, unhealthy relationships, obsessions with unavailable men, self-sabotage and singleness.
At the start of her inner journey, Katherine was a high-flying adrenaline junkie - an international news journalist who reported for Reuters from the Houses of Parliament and travelled the world with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, all the while bingeing on food to cope with stress, chronic low self-esteem and imposter syndrome. She was wedded to her job, fiercely independent and had little time for romance.
After working the steps in this book and going on a journey of personal development, she is now married to an emotionally healthy man, living by the beach on the Dorset coast and flourishing in her second career as a transformational coach, author and speaker. Katherine coaches women and men to have healthy relationships with themselves and with others and to create lives they love.
This book is about much more than dating and romance. It's about learning to thrive, not just survive. It's about discovering and fulfilling your dreams and about creating a life that's truly aligned with your heart's desires.
If this sounds like something worth fighting for and you're willing to step inside and do some work on yourself in order to change your relationships and change your life, this book is for you.
Katherine Baldwin is a writer, journalist, coach and speaker. She writes and speaks from the heart about her journey of transformation, including how she recovered from an eating disorder, challenged self-destructive relationship patterns, learned to love herself and eventually fell in love in her forties. As a coach, Katherine specialises in helping professional women and men understand why they're single, navigate the world of dating and relationships and fall in love. She runs 'How to Fall in Love' courses and workshops based on the 10-step journey outlined in her book. She offers individual coaching and leads 'How to Fall in Love' retreats at the beach in Dorset and in Spain. Katherine also offers midlife mentoring, helping people build their confidence and their resilience so they can make major life transitions, follow their heart and fulfill their dreams. Katherine writes lifestyle features for magazines, newspapers and online publications and has been widely published in the national media, including in Red, Psychologies, The Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, the Guardian and Easy Living. She blogs for Psychologies Life Labs, The Huffington Post and We Are The City and has appeared on TV and radio, including Newsnight, Radio 2 and Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Katherine has a background in international journalism. She worked as a foreign correspondent in Mexico and Brazil for the global news agencies Bloomberg and Reuters before moving back to Britain to work as a political correspondent for Reuters, based in the Houses of Parliament. She turned freelance in 2008. She has a diploma in counselling and psychotherapy skills from London's Westminster Pastoral Association, is a graduate and fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs and has lectured in journalism at Bournemouth University and London's City University. You can find out more about Katherine's work at katherinebaldwin.com, read her blog at fromfortywithlove.com and follow her on Twitter @From40WithLove.
