**New edition - Revised & Updated, February 2018**
A wonderful handbook on relationships, which requires you to be brave, dig deep and face your fears about falling in love - Suzy Greaves, Editor-in-Chief, Psychologies magazine
Are you struggling to understand why you're single and why none of your relationships work out? Do you find yourself drawn to unavailable partners and to people who won't commit? Do you find it difficult to meet eligible men or women or to find decent, reliable people attractive? Do you look on with bemusement as friends and relatives fall in love and tie the knot? Do you wonder if you'll ever meet your match? If the answer is 'Yes', this book will help.
How to Fall in Love is a dating and relationships guide with a difference. It's for people who are looking for something deeper than superficial advice and who are willing to explore the real reasons for their singleness. It combines moving memoir with practical insights and tried and tested tips.
In this book, Katherine Baldwin takes you on a journey of personal transformation, helping you to identify and challenge unhealthy relationship patterns and negative core beliefs, many of which will have deep roots, and to find the answers to your dating dilemmas within yourself.
She helps you break ties with lost loves, let go of the fantasy of the perfect partner, become open to dating people who aren't your usual type and set loving boundaries for dating so that you're open to love but protected from hurt. She encourages you to mature emotionally, build your self-esteem and make bold choices so that you can form a healthy, loving and long-lasting partnership.
The 10 steps in this book are based on Katherine's own transformational journey that enabled her to fall in love and get engaged in her early forties after years of dating disasters, unhealthy relationships, obsessions with unavailable men, self-sabotage and singleness.
At the start of her inner journey, Katherine was a high-flying adrenaline junkie who reported for Reuters from the Houses of Parliament and travelled the world with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, all the while bingeing on food to cope with stress, chronic low self-esteem and a bad case of imposter syndrome. She was wedded to her job, fiercely independent and had little time for romance.
After working these steps and going on a journey of personal development, she is a woman in love who lives with her partner on the Dorset coast, walks on the beach, writes from the heart and coaches women and men to have healthy relationships with themselves and with others and to create lives they love. Katherine is planning her wedding for 2019.
This book is about much more than dating and romance, however. It's about learning to thrive, not just survive. It's about discovering and fulfilling your dreams and about creating a life that's truly aligned with your heart's desires.
If this sounds like something worth fighting for and you're willing to step inside and to do some work on yourself in order to flourish, this book is for you.
This revised and updated edition of the book features a new chapter about Katherine's engagement, in which she shares honestly about the doubts and dilemmas her partner's long-awaited marriage proposal threw up. It also includes a section on ambivalence about motherhood as well as the thoughts of some of the women Katherine has been coaching since the first edition of this book went to print in 2017.
