That Which Doesn’t Kill Us: How One Couple Became Stronger at the Broken Places

Linda and Charlie Bloom are both psychotherapists, 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.

That Which Doesn’t Kill Us: How One Couple Became Stronger at the Broken Places, is a window into the raw and real life drama of learning how to move beyond the setbacks that life inevitably throws at couples. It is a revelation of how to rebuild a strong and lasting relationship when all of your dreams come crashing down.

That Which Doesn’t Kill Us offers inspiration and instruction, and shares how a powerful commitment can help you face extraordinary challenges and rise from the ashes into an authentic and loving relationship.

“Presented in chapters which are written alternately in each of their voices, Linda and Charlie offer the reader an 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.’

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 IOI 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.  www.bloomwork.com