REBUILDING SESSION NINE: Openness and Love

Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends is a straight-to-the-heart 12-week program to give you the tools and encouragement to get through this challenging time and move on with your life in positive ways.

OPENNESS: A mask is a false face - a feeling projected to others that's different from what you're really feeling. Some masks are appropriate; others are inappropriate. Masks may protect you from the emotional pain you feel or fear, but wearing masks takes a great deal of emotional energy. Masks distance you emotionally from others, keeping you from building intimate relationships. When you remove your masks appropriately, you find intimacy rather than emotion pain.

LOVE: Your capacity to love others is closely related to your capacity to love yourself. There are various types of love including romantic, friendship, game-playing and needy.