You Are the One You've Been Waiting For

You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For (2008) lays out the secret for finding happiness and intimacy in modern romantic relationships. Using the established Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, it shows that true contentment and compassion come from understanding and trusting the Self – your compassionate center of peace and clarity. By adjusting your perspective and completing some practical exercises, your relationship can start to flourish like it never has before.

• Couples who feel unable to connect despite their best efforts
• Therapists, psychoanalysts and armchair psychologists looking for a unique perspective on relationships 
• Those who feel unresolved inner turmoil holds them back from maintaining loving relationships

Richard C. Schwartz is an academic and therapist specializing in families and relationships. He developed the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, which focuses on the different parts within each individual, and how these parts relate to each other. His other books include Internal Family Systems Therapy and No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model.