It begins with you The 9 hard truths about love that will change your life

Jillian Turecki

Book - 2025

The "host of the top relationship podcast Jillian on Love reveals nine core truths about love and self-acceptance and provides ... self-healing techniques and strategies to help us repair our relationship with ourselves and start building the rewarding [romantic] relationships we deserve"--

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Subjects
Genres
Self-help publications
Published
New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Jillian Turecki (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
245 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN
9780063374362
  • Introduction: The Death of a Relationship
  • Truth 1. It Begins with You
  • Truth 2. The Mind Is a Battlefield
  • Truth 3. Lust Is Not the Same Thing as Love
  • Truth 4. You Have to Love Yourself
  • Truth 5. You Must Speak Up and Tell the Truth
  • Truth 6. You Need to Be Your Best Self (Even After the Honeymoon)
  • Truth 7. You Cannot Convince Someone to Love You
  • Truth 8. No One Is Coming to Save You
  • Truth 9. You Must Make Peace with Your Parents
  • Conclusion: It's Never Too Late to Choose Yourself
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Jillian on Love podcaster Turecki centers her uneven debut on the principle that romantic partnerships "reflect... the relationship we have with ourselves." Outlining how to "break through the barriers" that prevent emotional intimacy, she asks readers to identify harmful patterns they perpetuate in their love lives ("Could I be more discerning in choosing a partner?... When do I struggle to communicate?"); to rework limiting internal narratives that squash rational thinking ("What am I focusing on? What else could this mean?"); and to tell the truth to themselves and others, or risk "resentment, disconnection, and the utter disempowerment that comes from losing ourselves to fear instead of expressing who we are." Turecki, who was the subject of her psychiatrist father Stanley Turecki's book The Difficult Child, concludes with a revealing chapter about making peace with one's parents in order to avoid recreating their toxic relationship patterns. In it, she writes that a "big sign of my personal growth is that I do not date men anymore who are similar to the worst parts of my father." Turecki's core tenets are sound, though a tendency to restate her central message--that a relationship is a mirror of oneself--in different ways lends the book a repetitive feel. Readers seeking dating advice have more comprehensive options to choose from. (Jan.)

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