Cultivating Compersion
Moving from Jealousy to Joy in Nonmonogamy
Published on 8. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
18 pages
978-1-64841-735-1 (ISBN)
Description
What is the opposite of jealousy? It's compersion: the delight you find in a loved one's joy and happiness. This wonderful feeling can be really challenging to access in polyamorous relationships, no matter how much we want to feel it or think we should. Kathy Labriola, Aria Diana, and Marie Thouin, experienced nonmonogamous relationship coaches and experts, teach you to get there. They offer a clear path with stages of tolerance, neutrality, acceptance, and finally embodied compersion. This is a feeling anyone can access, even if it isn't easy--and along the way you can deepen all your relationships and open up a fuller sense of self-compassion.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
59 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64841-735-1 (9781648417351)
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Kathy Labriola is a nurse, counselor, and hypnotherapist in Berkeley, California. She has provided affordable mental health services to alternative communities for over 30 years. Kathy is author of Love in Abundance: A Counselor's Advice on Open Relationships, The Jealousy Workbook, The Polyamory Break-up Book: Causes, Survival, and Polyamorous Elders: Aging in Open Relationships. She has been a card-carrying bisexual and polyamorist for over 50 years. She is extra crunchy, rides a bike, lives in a housing cooperative, grows organic vegetables and raises chickens. Dr. Marie Thouin is a leading expert and scholar on compersion in consensual non-monogamy and beyond. She authored the first-ever scholarly book on compersion, and work has been featured in several academic conferences, workshops, magazines, and podcasts. Marie is also a mindful dating & relationship coach who supports people of all ages, genders, and sexual/relationship orientations to create vibrant and intentional love lives--including folks navigating non-monogamy and/or non-traditional relationship structures. Aria Diana (she/her) is a trauma-informed relationship coach, somatic facilitator, and author of the weekly Substack Navigating Non-Monogamy with Aria Diana, helping the non-monogamous build liberated love through embodied safety and kind communication.