The Relationship Within the Relationship

What do your relationships ask you to become?

You can be dependable, loving and capable while feeling that there is less and less room for you.

A friendship may offer belonging while asking you to remain the helper. Work may give you a sense of worth while making it difficult to rest. The relationship you can see is only part of the story.

In The Relationship Within the Relationship, Counsellor Susane Belkhiati invites women to explore the hidden expectations, roles and meanings beneath their connections with partners, family, friends, work, caregiving and their own bodies.

Through reflective chapters, practical prompts and 21 accompanying worksheets, you will explore:

• What your relationships give you, and what they cost.
• The roles you take on and the expectations you carry.
• How your needs, boundaries and sense of self fit within those relationships.
• Changes you might explore at a pace that suits your circumstances.

Drawing on more than 20 years of counselling and coaching experience, Susane offers a compassionate space to notice familiar patterns and consider what matters to you.

You do not need to have everything figured out. You can begin with one question:

What is my relationship with this relationship?