Charlie  & Linda  Bloom

That Which Doesnt Kill Us

How One Couple  Become Stronger at the Broken Places

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Psychotherapists and relationship counselors, Linda Bloom, L.C.S.W. and husband Charlie Bloom, M.S.W. have worked with individuals, couples, groups, and organizations since 1975. They have lectured and taught at many learning institutes throughout the USA, including the Esalen Institute, the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, 1440 Multiversity, the California
Institute of Integral Studies, the Meridian University, John F. Kennedy University, the Crossings, Omega Institute, the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, Sonoma State University, the University of California at Berkeley Extension Program, the Hoffman Institute, the World Health Organization and many others.​

They have offered their seminars and lectures in countries throughout the world, including China, Japan, Indonesia, Denmark, Sweden, India, Brazil, Mexico, and Canada.

Charlie and Linda are the authors of three other books, including the bestselling 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last; Happily Ever After...and 39 Other Myths about Love; Secrets of Great Marriages. They blog for a number of online journals on a regular basis, including The Huffington Post, Psych Central, OMTimes and Psychology Today, where their posts have received over 5 million hits. The Blooms have been married since 1972, have two grown children, and live in California.

Their Website is: bloomwork.com/
This is a “report from the front”—the actual cauldron that purifies those who are willing to bring honesty, integrity and courage to the noble work of crafting a loving relationship that works.”

~ Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters
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Linda and Charlie Bloom are both professional relationship counselors and seminar leaders, but it has not insulated them from the same difficulties that their clients and students experience in everyday life.

In this, their fourth book, That Which Doesn’t Kill Us: How One Couple Got Stronger at the Broken
Places (Sacred Life Publishers, on sale April 9, 2018), the story of the Blooms’ journey through a
series of ordeals reveals how they managed to reconstruct a relationship from the ashes of their broken dreams. It is both inspiring and instructive, demonstrating to the reader the power of true commitment in the face of great odds and enormous obstacles.

Presented in chapters which are written alternately in each of their voices, Linda and Charlie offer the reader a extraordinary window into their interior and interpersonal experiences. And despite the occurrence of frequent setbacks, they eloquently and poignantly manage to fulfill the demands of the recovery process. It may best be described in the words of one of the book’s dozen-plus endorsers, Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., author of the bestselling Love, Medicine & Miracles: “The Blooms have found the solution to learning from and becoming stronger due to life’s difficulties. Let them become your coaches through this book.”