Product Description

Top Secret Tips Unveiled Within!

When you read this book, you'll learn how to define where to begin on your journey to success in relationships.

By following these simple guidelines, you'll know what to look for when considering a man as a lifetime partner. This book offers several discussion provoking questions for you to go through with the special man in your life to determine if he is the right man for you.

This book concludes with suggestions on how to make your relationship a priority, some practical tips for a happy marriage and how to keep your romance alive.

"This book is a practical guide for women. It offers sound advice on personal growth and happiness as well as guidance on developing a success relationship with a man that will last a lifetime."

John Gray, Ph.D. Author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

"Julia has written a very practical and insightful book on personal responsibility in intimate relationships. The author's strength is in gleaning wisdom from her own experiences and then offering it to the reader who may be struggling to find hope and direction. The hope and direction comes from the strands of practical advice that if woven into a rope can provide the personal life-line out of hurtful experiences and naiveté into fulfilled relationships."

Ken D. Janzen, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, Fresno, CA



"The author shares from her experience in an easy to follow, conversational style. This is a practical guide that will benefit any women to understand the realities of relationships. This book will help women to look to themselves for answers to problems in their past and current relationships. This is an easy to read, practical guide to the path of understanding and accepting your strengths and weaknesses, and to apply them to having successful relationships. This book knocks out the "knight in shining armor myth," and gives you an opportunity to analyze your behaviors and explains how they apply to the dynamics of your relationships. Using these principles will help to make positive changes in your life. I recommend this book as a must read for any woman wanting to have a successful relationship."

Lynn Turner, Educator and mother of two teenage girls, Central California

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #662373 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

Customer Reviews

Very Helpful
In this work by author, Julia J. Austin, we are given some down to earth advise on relationships, Our author reaches inside herself and her own short-comings in this area from the past and shares her own resurrection, if you will, to victory to help the reader in their quest. She breaks down her book, first asking the reader to self-evaluate and truly see themselves as they are. This allows for correction and really can be an eye-opener to the person we are. She than focuses on finding the right person for you and how to go about doing that. Her book allows you to interact, gives you a quiz and many practical tips for keeping your marriage exciting once you have crossed that threshold.

I read and review many self-help books. Some truly give insight and others leave me dry.
This work by author, Julia J. Austin, was extremely drawing. I was impressed by the free-spirit in which I felt this author wrote. You could tell by her words and expressions that what she was saying truly came from the heart with a sincere desire to help others. I liked that. If you are searching and wondering why your relationships are going flat and want some down to earth practical advise from a caring heart, this book is for you. I am proud to give it my recommendation. Well done.

Inspirational

Reviewed by Tina Avon for RebeccasReads (8/08)


"It Starts With You" is an insightful, honest and an extremely hard book to read. Why is it so hard to read? It's difficult because the author is basically calling us on our own stuff.

Somewhere along the line, we seem to have gotten into the habit of blaming parents, society, friends, and the environment for the way we act, the way we interact with other people, and for the way we behave in general. "It Starts With You" is a personal guide that helps us take ownership of our own lives, which will help us be stronger partners when it comes to our intimate relationships.

Author, Julia Austin details honestly her own experiences dealing with love and relationships and how she realized that her growth in these areas was seriously flawed until she started taking ownership for the choices that she made and the people she chose to surround herself with.

The first part of this book is, to me, the most important, as it asks us to take an honest look at ourselves and figure out what is really going on with our relationships. What is the role that we play in creating the relationship and its patterns? This is difficult for most people to do, as it is always easier to blame the other person.

Once we start to understand the roles we play (or replay) in relationships, we can turn our attention to the second part of the book, which is about growth. It is about helping us figure out how to find the right person for us. Austin pinpoints many subjects that need to be addressed, which are part of what makes a relationship successful, issues such as sex compatibility, finances, health and physical appearance to name a few.

I enjoyed the way this author writes, like a girlfriend talking to another girlfriend. There is a lot of practical advice here and although some of it may be hard to hear, it is important and needs to be heard. Although we would all love to think that "we magically" fall in love and it will last forever, unfortunately reality is quite different.