The Joy of Intimacy

A Soulful Guide to Love, Sexuality, and Marriage

Intimacy is an art. It’s not something that just happens. It must be learned, cultivated, and practiced carefully if it is to flourish.

We all crave intimacy. It’s essential to our emotional and spiritual health, and without it we don’t feel whole. Yet today our culture faces an intimacy crisis. Many of us, even when we’re in a committed relationship, still feel painfully alone.

For more than four decades, world-renowned author, counselor, and teacher Manis Friedman has empowered couples to successfully navigate their own intimacy crisis and replace loneliness and unfulfilled expectations with a deeply soulful and satisfying relationship. In this refreshingly frank, sensible, and at times humorous guide, Rabbi Friedman and Ricardo Adler share the deeper truths at the heart of our longing for intimacy along with practical wisdom from Jewish tradition insights anyone can use to recapture passion, save their relationship, and tap into the essence of the true intimate experience.

You’ll learn how to overcome the greatest obstacles to a healthy intimate relationship and explore secrets to preserving your natural spontaneity, setting the mood for intimacy, and making your bedroom a sacred space. You’ll also learn how to increase your sensitivity to the sacred experience of oneness that has the power to transform every aspect of your marriage and nourish all those around you.

Whether you are married or single, in a relationship or seeking to create one that is both meaningful and lasting, The Joy of Intimacy will give you the skills and confidence you need to keep your relationship alive, fresh, and fulfilling.

In this Book You Will Discover

The Secret to spontaneous passion, setting the intimate mood and igniting your bedroom
Why Sparks fade (and what you can do to keep your relationship alive, fresh & fulfilling)
One Simple Way to immediately transform your relationship and overcome even the greatest obstacles

About the Author
Rabbi Manis Friedman is a world-renowned author, counselor, teacher, and speaker, well known for his provocative and incisive wit and wisdom. His international speaking tours, seminars, and retreats take him around the world, and he has been featured on CNN, A&E Reviews, PBS, and BBC Worldwide as well as in such publications as The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Seventeen, Guideposts, and Publishers Weekly. His first book, Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore? (published by Harper San Francisco), was widely praised by the media. He lives with his family in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Publisher: Its Good to Know Publishing
Language: English
Dimensions: 5 x 8 inches
ISBN-13: 9780986277009

The Joy of Intimacy [Paperback]
By: Manis Friedman with Ricardo Adler